State Emergency Service crews from the Mid North Coast have been brought in to help with the third day of cleanup from Monday night's ferocious storm.
A total of 560 jobs have been received across the Hunter including 381 in Newcastle, 57 in Lake Macquarie, 34 in Maitland and another 30 in Cessnock. Of the total jobs, 243 were for trees down, 150 were for roof damage and 82 calls related to trees down impacting roads.
More than 14 teams from Hunter and Central Coast units as well as teams from the Mid North Coast will be working through the remaining tasks on Wednesday with assistance from local Fire and Rescue and RFS crews.
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Some residents of PAC Wescott, Stockton remain in temporary accommodation after the roof over the Ibis Wing Dining Room was partially blown off, causing damage to other Ibis Wing roof areas.
Around 30 residents in the upstairs Ibis Wing were moved to safety in other parts of PAC Wescott after the incident and the home has secured temporary accommodation for 23 residents at HammondCare Waratah.
It comes 16 months after similar damage occurred to an adjacent section of roof in a wind storm in August 2019.
Ausgrid has reconnected almost all of the 22,000 properties who lost power on Monday night.
Spokesperson Emma Shanks said less than 500 were still without power due to severe damage in Sandgate which has taken longer to rectify than other areas.
However she said many of these were businesses and crews were on the ground communicating with those affected. The company hopes to have them reconnected later on Wednesday.
