SES Deputy Zone Commander Barry Griffiths says Wagga was "lucky" in avoiding deaths or serious injuries given the power of the storm that hit the city on Wednesday.
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About 50 SES volunteers joined other emergency services and Wagga City Council in responding to hundreds of requests for help between 6pm and midnight on Wednesday and during the day on Thursday.
"The same sort of [thunderstorm downdraft] weather system hit Dee Why in Sydney and unfortunately killed some people. I think we were fortunate that it was 6pm so most people would have been inside and eating dinner," he said.
"I think we were quite lucky, noting the wind speed and some of the damage and the size of some of the trees that were snapped in half," Mr Griffiths said.
"The area that was affected the worst was the more the industrial area around the Rules Club, that seems to be where a lot of the power hit where there is not that many properties."
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Across Wagga the SES recorded 228 incidents on Wednesday and Thursday, predominantly falling tree and roof damage.
A few houses at Glenfield Park and Ashmont had their roofs partially torn off by the wind and one home at North Wagga had its entire roof removed.
Narelle Samios was in Wagga on Wednesday to visit family while on a trip between Queensland and Victoria when her partner's Ford Ranger utility was hit by a tree while parked on Incarnie Crescent.
"We heard something fall at about 6pm and saw that some branches had falling onto the neighbour's yard, and then we saw what happened to the car," she said.
"It's a bit sad as we only got it last year, it wasn't an old car and we were expecting to use it to pick up a new caravan in Adelaide in February.
"But nobody was in it and nobody got hurt, so we're happy about that."
Over in Mount Austin, Doug Barlow said he could not believe the official Bureau of Meteorology wind speed for Wagga on Wednesday night of 54 kilometres per hour, given he lost two healthy trees in his yard.
"We heard our smaller trees falling over but I didn't hear the big tree across the street come down," he said.
"I've been here for 20 years and this is the strongest wind I've ever experienced. My rain gauge had three inches overnight."
Mr Griffiths said the SES should resolve all the incidents it had been called to on Friday and over the weekend.
"In terms of flash flooding, our saving grace is that we have had a couple of weeks of relatively dry conditions so the soil was able to absorb a lot of [rainfall]," he said.
"We are expecting a lot more thunderstorms and we are advising people to make preparations."
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