Defence will help evacuate residents in the north of the Australian state of Victoria as a flood crisis there worsens and more than 250 houses are under water.
The ABC reports floodwaters are rising in northeastern areas such as Wangaratta and Benalla. Residents from about 20 homes in Skipton, near Ballarat, have been advised to evacuate.
The State Emergency Service says some towns have been split by the floodwaters.
Fifty Defence Force personnel and 150 extra police will be deployed in the north on Monday to help.
Six relief centres have been set up across the state.
Power supply is now reconnected to most of the 40,000 houses that were cut off.
The floods are described as the worst in 15 years.
NSW and South Australia also hit
More than 20,000 residents along the New South Wales south coast are without power after high winds early on Monday morning.
The ABC reports winds averaging 70km an hour tore off roofs, blew over trees and spread debris in several towns in the Illawarra-south coast region.
Residents in the Shoalhaven region are being asked not to flush their toilets because the weather has affected power to nine of the 12 sewerage systems.
Two days of storms across South Australia have helped Adelaide reach more than two-thirds of its average monthly rainfall for September.
The average September rainfall in Adelaide is 60.6mm.
The weather bureau says the city has already received 47mm in the first five days of the month.
The ABC reports about 5500 people across the state are without power because of the storms, and that the storms have affected 150,000 people across the state.
