1/45Service agent at Avis in Market Place Matt Hooper surveys the damage. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE.
Extreme weather slams Hobart
HOBART’S CBD and surrounding suburbs have been flooded after a fierce storm hit southern Tasmania overnight.
2/45A fish farm washed up at Hinsby Beach in Taroona. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE.
3/45Books that flowed out of the Law library at UTAS in Sandy Bay. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE.
4/45Crews work on damage and debris on the Hobart Rivulet from overnight flooding. Hobart flood cleanup. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
5/45Damage at the Law library at UTAS in Sandy Bay. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE.
6/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
7/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
8/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
9/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
10/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
11/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
12/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
13/45Devastation left in the wake of a storm that swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
14/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
15/45Devastation left in the wake of a storm that swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
16/45Devastation left in the wake of a storm that swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
17/45Possum drowning in flood at Risdon Road, New Town
18/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
19/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
20/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
21/45A storm left devastation in its wake as it swept through Hobart, flooding the CBD while the city slept. Picture: PATRICK GEE
22/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
23/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
24/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
25/45Argyle St. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
26/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
27/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
28/45Davey St. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
29/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
30/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
31/45Argyle st and Macquarie St. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
32/45Argyle st and Macquarie St. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
33/45New Town. Floods in Hobart. Picture: GEORGE VICKERS
34/45Flood at Risdon Road in New Town
35/45Images from John Zito owner of Nutpatch handmade chocolates . Floods in Hobart
36/45Images from John Zito owner of Nutpatch handmade chocolates . Floods in Hobart
37/45Emmanuelle Oakey 16 braces rough weather at Launceston. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD
38/45Ted braved the driving wind and rain to give his dog Snoot a walk at Kingston Beach. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
39/45Ted braved the driving wind and rain to give his dog Snoot a walk at Kingston Beach. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
40/45A walker braving the driving wind and rain at Kingston Beach. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
41/45A walker braving the driving wind and rain at Kingston Beach. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
42/45A fisherman braving the driving wind and rain at Kingston Beach, trying his luck in the swollen Browns River. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
43/45A fisherman braving the driving wind and rain at Kingston Beach, trying his luck in the swollen Browns River. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
44/45Noah Kemp, 13, helping Debby Strongarm of NVS Hairdressers in Huonville to move the furniture to higher ground while waiting for his haircut. Debbie's salon was hit hard by the 2016 flood, so she's not taking chances in this heavy rain. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
45/45Noah Kemp, 13, helping Debby Strongarm of NVS Hairdressers in Huonville to move the furniture to higher ground while waiting for his haircut. Debbie's salon was hit hard by the 2016 flood, so she's not taking chances in this heavy rain. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL
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