WILD weather lashed the shire Wednesday with some towns experiencing more damage than others. Beechworth SES controller Charles Dean said Beechworth copped 70 mm of rain from 9am to 9pm Wednesday with the intensity of rain falling in patches throughout the day gave rise to flooding waters. Mr Dean said the unit received six callouts on Wednesday with three house floods around the town needing sandbags, some trees down including one on the Beechworth Wangaratta Road as well as White Post Road. “A huge trench had opened up on Diffy Road as well,” Mr Dean said. Two rooms in the at Beechworth Community Early Years Learning Centre also flooded. “It could have been worse, but people had heeded our weather warnings and acted,” Mr Dean said. “Given the intensity of the rain we didn’t have that many call outs. “Well done to the community.” Chiltern SES controller Helen Eames said there had been damage with multiple trees down around the area and flooding. “Trees fell on power lines into two homes needing to be cleared and were luckily not broken and a cubby house and a couple of sheds had also come down,” she said. Ms Eames said there were around 15 callouts over the day with the crew returning around midnight Wednesday night. Rutherglen SES controller Darren Trevaskis said Rutherglen had received 50 mm of rain over the last couple of days but weathered the storm with the town left relatively unscathed with one call-out. “We didn’t get a lot of wind like Yarrawonga which was the worst,” he said.
