MORE than 10 houses were damaged, fences flattened and a trampoline tossed 300m by a freak wind gust in a Melbourne street this morning.

SES crews were called to Bayside Ave in Edithvale, in Melbourne’s southern suburbs, about 1am after the wind uprooted trees, tore apart fences and brought down power lines, theMordialloc/Chelsea Leader reports.

Resident Sandy Ayres, who had part of a fence blown on to her roof and a trampoline land in her front yard, described the freak weather as an intense wind gust.

"It was really sudden and quick,” Ms Ayres said.

“Then there was a bang and I thought there was something broken. I was like, `Oh my God’.

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