With the worst of the storms over, the rain certainly isn’t and Perth has been warned to brace for showers until the end of the week.
The severe weather warning has now been canceled for the metro area but wild winds and showers are still to come.
Emergency services spent another day on Wednesday fighting the brunt of Perth’s severe storm as calls continued to rise, with several regions across the State breaking wind gust records.
The living room ceiling of a Joondalup home collapsed on 13-year-old Dominic Vaughan who was watching TV with his father.
“We heard it crack…I thought it would collapse then but then we heard a crack again and after that the roof just fell,” he told Nine News.
“It was so scary.”
The teen and his dad were forced to crawl to safety out from underneath the rubble.
Meanwhile a bedroom window in Butler was smashed by a neighboring fence covering a sleeping teenager in glass.
“My son was in bed, luckily he had the covers on him because massive shards of glass (came through),” the home owner said.
According to meteorologists, severe weather is not expected to ease for the Perth area until late Wednesday night.
It will still be pleasant and showery on Thursday but no severe weather is expected.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services warned of damaging surf and winds along the State’s coast would continue into Thursday morning.
Significant wave heights exceeding 7m are occurring in exposed locations.
With unsecured debris on and around roads, motorists are urged to drive with caution.
At the height of the chaos 35,000 homes were without power with 10,000 still blacked out in Perth and the South West as of 8pm on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, DFES activated a volunteer call center split into two teams to help manage the influx of calls for help.
Volunteers have been working between six and 10 hour shifts to ensure the public’s safety during what has been named as WA’s once-in-a-year storm.
Updates on rainfall can be found here and all BOM’s latest warnings can be found via this link.
PERTH SEVEN-DAY FORECAST
- Thursday: 17C, 6-10mm
- Friday: 16C, 0-1mm
- Saturday: 17C, 2-4mm
- Sunday: 19C, 5-10mm
- Monday: 17C, 5-10mm
- Tuesday: 16C, 0-1mm
- Wednesday: 18C
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