The New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) has received about 60 calls for assistance from residents of western Sydney, where wild weather has uprooted a number of trees. The storms are moving from the Penrith area towards Sydney's north and large hailstones are expected. SES spokesman Steve Delaney says strong wind gusts have caused significant damage. "It seems more to do with damage caused by the heavy winds," he said. "The bureau have measured a couple of gusts over 100 kilometres an hour, which has caused a lot of damage out there with the trees."

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Emergency crews are working to fix homes and restore power to properties affected by a severe storm that hit parts of western Sydney yesterday afternoon. The State Emergency Service (SES) says it received more than 200 calls for help in the Penrith and Blacktown areas, many from people whose homes had been damaged by heavy rain and strong winds. About 60 jobs are still to be completed. SES spokesman Steve Delaney says many of the calls from homes in the Blacktown area were re-calls after damage from hailstorms in December. Mr Delaney says the wild weather uprooted a number of trees and the wind gusts caused significant damage to houses. "It's still mainly just damage that needs to have emergency repairs to it - roof damage, some probably water ingress, and a few tarps that still need to be tied down securely or replaced," he said. Integral Energy says about 13,000 homes lost power at the height of the storm. Spokeswoman Julie Marks says crews are still trying to restore electricity to more than 1,000 properties in the Penrith and Windsor areas. "The main job for our crews is to try and remove those remaining trees from power lines and ensure that all the areas are safe and that it's fine to restore power as soon as possible," she said.

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