‘It’s quite nasty’: 3AW callers detail chaos amid wild weather in Wye River

Cars have been swept to sea, with an emergency warning in place for Wye, Kennett and Cumberland Rivers and Lorne.

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Local Phillip has told Laura Spurway, storms swept through a short time ago, causing Wye River to burst its banks.

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“It’s a huge flowing river at the moment,” Phillip said on 3AW Afternoons.

Mayor of the Colac Otway Shire, Councillor Jason Schram, then painted a grim picture of the current situation in the Otway region.

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3AW Breakfast host Ross Stevenson is in Lorne at the moment, and talked through the chaotic scenes where he is.

“It’s incredible, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Stevenson told Shane McInnes.

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The Department of Transport has released the following statement:

The Great Ocean Road is closed to traffic in both directions between Fairhaven and Skenes Creek due to extreme weather, flooding and possible land slips.

The closure is under the control of emergency services. Closure points may change with little or no notice.

Motorists are urged to avoid the area. Conditions are changing rapidly and are dangerous.

If travel is essential in the area, please obey all directions of emergency services.

V/Line coach services that normally run along the Great Ocean Road are detouring inland, and will skip Kennett River and Wye River stops.

Transport Victoria provides real-time traffic conditions and the latest public transport information at transport.vic.gov.au.

Victoria Police have stated that no one was sighted in the vehicles that were swept out to sea, and they currently don’t have any reports of missing people.

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