An Emergency Warning is in place for the Eyre Highway near Balladonia Roadhouse and the southern part of Balladonia in Western Australia . For the latest, search on RHIANA WHITSON, REPORTER: This is the aftermath of last week's deadly storms that tore through Victoria . The foothills of the Dandenongs , on the outskirts of Melbourne , were one of the areas hit. It is where Carolyn Askew lives with her sons. CAROLYN ASKEW, STORM VICTIM: The car was like just shaking.
I had trees falling all around me and I didn't know whether they were alive or not. So processing that is a lot but when I picked them up from school and I held them tight, and was crying, that is a big blessing. RHIANA WHITSON: More than half a million households and businesses lost power and about 1000 are still disconnected from electricity.CAROLYN ASKEW: It's getting a bit long now. You know, we can handle a few days, we can, even a week but the thought of having another week off is, it disrupts everything. LINDEN MITCHELL, TRADER: And you can see like, we can't do anything in her
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