By Renee Wood
Yarra Valley homes are without power following damaging winds ripping through the region last night.
Thousands of properties have been disconnected with Ausnet reporting many outages.
Much of the Upper Yarra has been affected with almost 2000 properties in Warburton and East Warburton powerless.
Yarra Junction has also been hit hard with 1260 homes off the grid, while Woori Yallock isn’t far behind with 1085.
Millgrove, Don Valley, Gladysdale, Launching Place, Powelltown, Chum Creek and Healesville are have hundreds of homes without power.
Ausnet crews are investigating the causes and are working to restore power by Monday afternoon.
Emergency crews have been called in to assist with trees falling across roads.
Upper Yarra SES unit said their first page last night came through at 6.50pm and crews haven’t stopped since.
A warning for damaging winds was issued yesterday by the Bureau of Meteorology, with winds developing ahead of an intense low pressure system.
A low pressure system intensified and moved rapidly southeastwards, bringing with it wind gusts averaging 50 to 65 km/h with some parts seeing peak gusts of 90 to 100 km/h.
