Victorians are being urged to "please be patient" as emergency crews work through thousands of requests for assistance after storms lashed much of the state.
More than 100,000 properties are still without power after destructive winds moved across the state on Thursday night, tearing down trees, damaging homes and causing widespread blackouts.
Victoria's State Emergency Service worked through the night on Friday to deal with a large amount of requests for help in the aftermath of the wild weather.
Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp said the SES had received more than 5000 requests for assistance since the storms hit, about half of the number received after damaging floods in June.
"This is a major, major job for the SES," he told reporters on Saturday.
"At the moment we have about 1400 requests for assistance still to be cleared, and they are really predominantly in that area from Berwick down into the Mornington Peninsula."
He said issues ranged from trees fallen across powerlines or driveways, to building damage.
"That's everything from quite minor, right through to where there's probably about seven houses that have been assessed as uninhabitable," Mr Crisp said.
"There are literally hundreds of emergency services out there today, doing this clean up."
He said there had been a "significant drain" on calls to triple zero and the SES emergency assistance number, as he urged Victorians to remain patient.
"I know a number of people are still waiting for the SES to turn up, but please be patient," he said.
"We will get to you as quickly as we can. The number of new jobs are not increasing all that much, but there are still wait times."
Mr Crisp said 105,000 properties are still without power as of 12pm on Saturday, down from 520,000 homes on Friday.
He said the state's control centre was working with electricity distribution businesses "and pushing them to provide that clarity in relation to when power will come back on".
"We know that that will happen over the next couple of days," he said.
"We will continue to do the thinking and the planning in relation to what support will be needed to be provided people if there is a longer tail in relation to power coming back into some of those areas."
It is the first weekend Victorians have been allowed to travel freely within the state, with many Melburnians planning to visit regional Victoria for the first time since July.
But holiday-deprived Victorians are urged to reconsider travel, with popular tourist destinations including Apollo Bay, the Dandenongs and the Mornington Peninsula among the worst hit by the storms.
Mr Crisp said Victorians wanting to travel intrastate or go camping this weekend should check with Parks Victoria and Vic Traffic before setting off on their journeys.
He flagged there could be more wild weather to hit the state from Wednesday.
