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Wet windy and wild

01 Jul, 2009 11:30 PM
LOCAL SES and CFS attended incidents at Tumby Bay, Port Lincoln and Lock on Tuesday after strong winds and heavy rain buffeted the region.

Six Tumby Bay SES members were called to a property northwest of Tumby Bay at about 11am on Tuesday because water was leaking into the house through its roof.

The SES was also called to an incident at about 11.30am where a pergola type shade had been blown from a house and wrapped around a stobie pole in Tumby Bay.

There was also a blocked drain attended to in Port Lincoln.

Lock CFS members attended a scene where a large tree had been brought down.

Strong winds also caused some roof damage to premises in Kimba and in Whyalla and a tree fell on a car , although nobody was injured. Powerlines in Whyalla were also damaged.

Northwesterly wind gusts reached 89 kilometres an hour on Tuesday night at the Port Lincoln Airport, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, while Cummins was hit with the same gusts earlier in the day.

Many areas across Eyre Peninsula received well above their average rainfall for the month of June. Port Lincoln received 132 millimetres for the month, 57mm more than its average of 75mm for the month, Elliston received 64.4mm more than its average of 72.1, Cummins received a total of 101mm for the month compared to an average of 61mm, and Tumby Bay received 66mm, 23mm more than its monthly average of 43mm.

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