OR Alfred storm caused extensive power vacation in the east Australiasinking into the dark of nearly 330,000 households, industry companies announced today.

Somewhere 310,000 domestic customers did not have electricity yesterday in the southeast of Queensland and about 16,000 others in the northeast of New South Wales after the storm passes.

These customers need to be “prepared” to stay without electricity for “days”, warned Essential Energy in Queensland.

The “biggest” obstacles to restoring the supply “are the rise in the water and the bloating of the shared water currents, the falling of trees and the mud landslides” that prevent cars access to sections of the distribution network that have suffered, explained.

Although downgraded in a tropical storm, Alfred baptized a phenomenon brought heavy winds to the eastern coast of Australia, uprooting trees and pillars of the electricity grid in its southeastern part. Queensland and in the northeast part of New South Wales.

It caused heavy rainfall and rising rivers along 400 kilometers of the coastline of the two Australian states, with authorities issuing extraordinary flood warning bulletins.

“The situation in Queensland and in the north of New South Wales remains very serious because of sudden flood and fierce winds,” the prime minister said today Anthony Albanesi.

“Heavy rainfall and the risk of sudden floods and high water levels will continue next week,” the Queensland Meteorological Service warned, although the storm is projected to weaken as the front is now above ground.

Last Saturday, authorities identified the corpse of a 61 -year -old man after the 4×4 truck driving was dragged by rushing waters as he crossed a bridge over a river that had swollen in the north of New South Wales. He managed to get out of the vehicle, tried, in vain, to be kept by a tree branch, but was dragged and drowned, the state police explained.

Thirteen soldiers were injured yesterday on Saturday in a collision of two Armed Forces trucks as they were on a rescue mission in eastern Australia. Twelve of them remained in a hospital today and two were in critical condition, New South Wales Prime Minister Chris Mins said during a press conference.