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November 10th, 2011 
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Damage is being assessed from storms which hit the Riverina last night and this morning, with Batlow appearing to be the worst hit area.
The Rock had the highest rainfall overnight, with one caller to ABC Riverina reporting 70 millimetres.
Griffith, Albury and Khancoban have had about 25mm, Wagga has had 16mm and Batlow recorded 30mm in a short period, as well as damaging hail.
Police at Wagga Wagga and Griffith have not reported any damage.
Greg Coombs from the Murrumbidgee State Emergency Service (SES) says crews from Tumut and Wagga Wagga were called out in the midst of the storms to numerous fallen trees which had blocked the Tumbarumba Road.
“There were a number of cars actually not damaged on the road but actually stuck between fallen trees so there were a lot of trees blocking access to that road,” he said.
“The Book Book area, also a couple of jobs in the Big Springs area.
“Quite a severe storm went through to the south of Tumut as well but mainly trees down across the road that brought the powerlines down and blocked the access basically from the Wagga end of the Tumbarumba Road all the way through to the Hume Highway.
“The Talbingo area was cut off, quite a severe cell went through to the south of Tumut, it went through Talbingo and the Batlow area, so there’ll be concerns up there with power and trees down as well.”
There are reports of a caravan flipping over near Tumut, Talbingo lost power for a time and numerous trees were brought down by strong winds.
‘Hailing ferociously’
Batlow apple grower Barney Hyam says a hail storm which hit last night is the worst that he has seen in 25 years.
He expects the damage bill to be in the millions of dollars.
“By a quarter past eight it was just hailing ferociously, we’ve had windows broken on the house,” Mr Hyam said.
“It looks like autumn up here this morning. There’s just leaves all over the ground and the young apples which are about the size of cherries at the moment are just ripped in half, the hail was about marble size.
“So it’s even done damage to the hail netting. Just looking through the orchard this morning, there’s sections where the hail netting’s been torn.
“There was a fair bit of wind behind the hail as well, so it’s been a pretty devastating night in Batlow.”
The weather bureau believes a small tornado or ‘downburst’ damaged 12 homes in Bellbridge near the Hume Weir yesterday afternoon.
Craig McIntyre from the Albury SES says crews had a dozen calls for help including one to The Grange Aged Care home, where part of the roof was blown off.
“The roof was unable to be tarped because of the conditions, it was just too windy to put crews up on the roof,” he said.
“Residents were moved around internally within the facility to allow people to be moved out of areas that were under the damaged part.
“There was no evacuation to my knowledge, there will be a reassessment of that this morning.”
Thunderstorms are expected to clear this morning in the Riverina and a sunny afternoon is forecast.
Anyone with damage from the storms can contact the SES on 132 500.
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