Gusts of wind reached 100 km per hour
The death of a person, more than 120 cancelled flights, more than a hundred houses damaged and widespread power outages caused strong winds in Sydney, the capital of the Australian state of New South Wales.
About it informs television company ABC.
Bureau of meteorology staff issued a warning about extreme weather conditions. The wind gusts sometimes reached more than 100 km per hour.
On one of the metro stations in Sydney two person received injuries to the arms and legs in the fall, the cladding of the building.
Pedestrian Scotch row was blocked off due to the fact that the wind blew a glass with a business centre.
In the South West region Hurstville a large satellite dish was ripped from the building from a private hospital.
In the North in Safarti tree toppled a power line on parked cars.
Furniture store in Karingi, in the South of Sydney, partially damaged from the front side due to strong wind gusts.
Sydney international airport is crowded with people because of strong winds, which sometimes reached 104 km / h was delayed or cancelled more than 120 flights. The situation will even out, but passengers face delays of up to 1.5 hours
According to the power company “Ausgrid” thousands of homes and businesses in Sydney and the Central coast remain without electricity.
More than 1,000 residents of Western Sydney are disconnected from electricity because of falling tree limbs on power lines.
Strong gusts of wind in the state has reached 106 miles per hour and was recorded in the town of Nowra.
The state emergency service (SES) said it received more than 720 of the cases due to damage caused by strong winds.
Strong winds caused considerable damage also in Wollongong.
One person was killed and a second suffered serious injuries after the falls of the two walls on construction sites in Sydney.
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