A severe storm has left Broken Hill and the surrounding region without power and the power infrastructure company says it could take weeks to fix the damage.
Transgrid says it could take weeks for repairs to be completed, and the region will run on generators in the meantime.An entire outback city is running on backup generators and the power infrastructure company says it could take weeks to repair the damage, after a wild storm hit Far West New South Wales last night.
Residents in the affected area, about 56 kilometres south of Broken Hill, said seven large transmission towers had crumpled. Evan Gualke is a volunteer at the Australian Wildlife Conservatory station in Scotia, 150km south of Broken Hill."It was full on," he said."I feel like the wind was 50 knots plus, it was unbelievable. It was phenomenal," he said." only 15 millimetres of rain, but it came very quickly," he said.Perilya general manager Chris Chindanya said all workers were brought safely to the surface and put on stand-by.
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