<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Australia, nearly half a million homes were left without power in the state of Victoria after a storm knocked out parts of the network.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Local media reported, the outages happened after a number of transmission towers collapsed in the storm, forcing a power station to shut down. It said, torrential rain and gale-force winds uprooted trees and blown entire sheds away.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The wild weather also hampered efforts to fight massive bushfires in the state's west.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The climate scientists have warned that a future full of worsening disasters, including storms and fires, is likely unless urgent action is taken to tackle climate change.</span></p>