As floodwaters surge across the state, residents of three villages in regional Victoria have been warned to evacuate, while thousands more are without power due to a flooded substation. Rochester, Carisbrook, and Seymour residents were told to evacuate their homes by 10 p.m. on Thursday. The Seymour line, along with those of numerous other regional lines, has lost both train and coach service according to The Australia Time.

Vic Emergency warns that people might not be able to leave their homes if they don’t leave by a specific time. Their homes could be cut off or flooded, and it might be too late to go.

A flooded substation caused an electrical outage.

Several western Melbourne suburbs were issued a “get to higher ground” warning due to a significant flood warning for the Maribyrnong River.

Several areas, including Essendon, Flemington, Footscray, and Yarraville, were issued a “watch and act” warning on Thursday night. Due to a flooded power substation, power was cut to around 9800 consumers in Castlemaine, located about 100 kilometers northwest of the city.

While sandbags, pumps, and raised equipment were used to try to keep the water out of the substation,

“Rising flood waters have now reached a level that makes it unsafe to keep the power on at the location,”

Powercor said in a statement. It has been impossible to prevent water from entering our control room; as a result, we have shut down the substation.

Emergency alerts for flooding all around the state

The Campaspe River is expected to flood Rochester, and locals are preparing. Diana Eadie, a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology, predicted that the heaviest rain would fall in Melbourne’s western suburbs at around 5 pm on Thursday before spreading to the city’s central and eastern neighborhoods. (Justin McManus)

Eadie reported Thursday afternoon that “the earth was already highly saturated” after 22 mm of rain fell between 9 am and 3 pm.

The floods in Seymour were the “largest they had ever seen,” according to locals.

Extreme weather has recently hit the southeast coast of Australia, and this satellite image shows the vast cloud belt that has travelled thousands of kilometers from the Indian Ocean.

We had floods in 1994, but nothing like this,” Kerianne Speechley told News Melbourne.

“About three feet down, I went. I used a stick to free myself from the flooded area and double-check that I had not left anything behind, “the local Will Speechley remarked.