'The house was literally moving': 'Mini-tornado' damages homes in Sydney's west

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Maryanne Tafeuni realised she was witnessing something unusual when the top of a cubby house flew across her backyard this morning.

More than 20 firefighters were in the area assessing properties, with some partially collapsedIt turns out the storm that caused additional power outages at Chester Hill this morning — amid the ongoing extreme weather event in NSW — was a "mini-tornado", according to the NSW Premier.

Emergency crews were called to the Canterbury-Bankstown suburb at about 8:30am following reports the storm had left a "trail of destruction damaging multiple properties". "[For a] split second, as I was looking outside, the house felt like it was literally moving and all I can see from the window is leaves, and things together," she said.

 

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There’s no such thing as a ‘mini-tornado’, even if the Premier said it. A better term to use if you don’t know what hit them is ‘severe storm’. This covers a range of things, including any tornadoes, down bursts, etc.

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