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Severe weather warnings for Melbourne after wild weather brings down trees and floods roads, while in the Alps it's snowing, and at Bells Beach it's very strange.
Michelle Ludeman was on her way home in Ocean Grove just before midnight when her car became trapped in floodwater.
"I was hyperventilating, crying," she told Channel Seven. "I just wanted out of the car and I couldn't get out of the car. I couldn't open the doors. Frightening"Panicking, she called her father and triple zero. Her father, Neville, arrived first, wading through chest-deep floodwater to drag his daughter to safety."I'm 75 years old but I wasn't giving a stuff about that," he said. "I wanted to get my daughter out of the car."
"I can always rely on dad," Ms Ludeman said.
Commuters faced a chilly ride home on Monday, while more people are still waiting for power to be reconnected to their homes after a weekend of wild weather.
Rain is set to ease by the evening, but Melbourne is shivering through the coldest day of the year so far, with the mercury forecast to sit around 15 degrees.
About 2500 homes in the Otways region are still without power after winds of more than 100km/h hit southern parts of the state.
Meanwhile a massive clean-up is underway across the state, after a vicious storm caused flash flooding and brought down hundreds of trees and power lines
The State Emergency Service has responded to more than 1000 calls for help since Sunday morning. More than 230 buildings were damaged in the storms and more than 4000 homes remained without power on Monday morning.
About 22,000 homes were without power during the storm's peak.
In Greendale, near the Wombat State Forest north-west of Melbourne, CCTV outside a house captured a 30-metre gum tree exploding with a lightning strike.
Resident Tom Morgan was left shaken after woodchips from the tree flew across his front yard."You felt it through the windows, the windows were shaking, you felt it through your body," he told Channel Nine.
It was a chaotic start to the week for Melbourne commuters, with heavy rainfall closing major roads and flooding the Sandringham train line.
One car was left floating in floodwaters under the Victoria Street rail bridge in Footscray, as police issued a warning across social media, urging motorists not to drive through flood waters.
Flooding over rail lines at Prahran made it impossible for trains to cross and forced the closure of the Sandringham line.
It re-opened about 9am, but that was little help to commuters.
Some parts of Victoria, like Durdidwarrah, near Melton, had two months of rainfall in 24 hours, Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Kevin Parkyn said.
"If you live in Victoria, it's fair to assume if you get a week of great weather it usually ends up being balanced out by something nasty," he said.
Durdidwarrah had 110mm of rain in 24 hours, while Gisborne has 90mm and about 36mm fell in the CBD.
Cruelly, the rainfall missed Victoria's drought-stricken cropping areas in the west, Mr Parkyn said.
"Everyone's generally happy with rainfall. What is unfortunate is that while we have had this great rain across the southern and mountain areas, some parts of Western Victoria have missed out, some of the cropping areas. So they are still looking for rain"
With Victoria in the middle of school holidays the SES has warned parents to pay close attention to their children near flooded roads or drains.
Highest totals in the #Melbourne area recorded across western & northern suburbs. Rain easing this morning https://t.co/IZ4Tjyll1h pic.twitter.com/cRXwfAyxic
— BOM Victoria (@BOM_Vic) April 9, 2017
With AAP