Victoria's largest power plant has been evacuated as the state's flooding crisis continues.

Three generators at the Yallourn Power Station, east of Trafalgar, were taken offline today after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides.

"The company was very concerned that if they had water ingress into their mine, they may damage equipment and endanger personnel," Mark Richards from the CFMEU said.

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Unions said the power station had just three days of reserve supply and a small crew had been allowed back in.

The power station produces almost a quarter of Victoria's electricity, but the government said there was enough reserve to meet the state's winter demand.

"The long-term supply issues are what they're trying to maintain, and as soon as the water stops flooding in, it'll be a case of firing up the plant and getting the four units back up and running," Mr Richards said.

In Gippsland, rivers and creeks are well above their normal levels and properties are being swallowed by floodwaters.

Lisa Meier has lost 10 kilometres of fencing on her Caringal hazelnut farm.

"That's eight years we've put into it and it's just like, what do we do?" she told 9News.

More than 1800 trees have been damaged and she found one of her beloved sheep drowned.

Further south in Won Wron, Paul Mumford has taken on two of his neighbours' herds.

"We don't know how it's gonna pan out but let's give it a go … We have to look after our animals, they're our life blood."

The dairy district is still off the grid and drenched farms are running off generators and manpower to milk and feed twice a day.

Overnight rainfall was less than forecast. An already soaked Sale received 32 millimetres, while 25 millimetres fell at Mount Dandenong. At Lilydale, the swollen Yarra River swamped the local airfield.

Phone service in many areas remains patchy with concern residents may be unable to call Triple-0.

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A dog has been rescued by sailors after wandering through the Arctic for more than a week, according to Russian state media.

The crew of a Russian icebreaker ship came across the Samoyed deep in the ice fields near the village of Mys Kamenny in northern Russia, state channel Russia 1 reported.

Yegor Agapov, the captain of the Alexander Sannikov icebreaker, told the network the dog approached the side of the vessel as it traversed the sparse and freezing landscape toward an oil terminal in the Gulf of Ob.

Video showed the white dog, named Aika, wagging her tail and walking gingerly on the jagged ice before the crew lowered a ladder for her to climb.

"We put out the ladder, by which the dog climbed aboard on its own. Later, with the help of mobile phone, we established contact with the local population, found the owner of the dog," Evgeny Nagibin, a navigation assistant, told Russia 1.

They took the dog to the nearby village and located the owners, who said Aika had run away during a walk around the village and probably would not had survived without the intervention of the crew.

"The dog didn't go anywhere without us, we have no idea how she got there," said owner Svetlana Chereshneva, a resident of Mys Kamenny.

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A Cape Cod lobster diver is safe, following a fluke encounter with a humpback whale that nearly made him the leviathan's lunch.

Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Friday, when the capital cetacean caught him unawares.

"I got down to about 45 feet of water, and all of a sudden I just felt this huge bump, and everything went dark," Packard told WBZ.

"And I could sense that I was moving, and I was like, '"Oh, my God, did I just get bit by a shark?'"

"Then I felt around, and I realised there was no teeth and I had felt, really, no great pain," Packard said. "And then I realised, 'Oh, my God, I'm in a whale's mouth. I'm in a whale's mouth, and he's trying to swallow me.'"

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Packard, an experienced diver, told WBZ that he still had his breathing apparatus on in the whale's mouth.

"One of the things that went through my mind was just, 'Oh, my God, what if he does swallow me, and here I am, I'm breathing air, and I'm going to breathe in this whale's mouth until my air runs out?'" he said.

"I thought to myself, 'OK, this is it. I'm going to die.' And I thought about my kids and my wife," he said.

"There was no getting out of there."

After what Packard estimated to be about 30 seconds in the mammal's mandibles, he said the whale surfaced quickly and spit him out.

"All of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head," Packard said.

"I just got thrown in the air, and landed in the water and I was free and I just floated there."

"I couldn't believe it," he added. "I couldn't believe I got out of that. And I'm here to tell it."

'A surprise to all involved'

Packard was pulled out of the water by a crewmate, rushed ashore, and taken to a nearby hospital. In the end, Packard said, he was "all bruised up," but whole.

Biologist Jooke Robbins, the director of Humpback Whale Studies at Provincetown's Center for Coastal Studies, said the unusual encounter was most likely an accident.

"We don't really see humpback whales doing anything like this normally," Robbins told CNN.

"I think it was a surprise to all involved."

Robbins said that Humpbacks often engage in so-called "lunge feeding," in which a fast moving whale tries to gather a large volume of food in its mouth quickly.

"When they do that, they don't necessarily see everything," she said.

She added that Packard was unlikely to have been swallowed, as, despite their massive mouths, their throats aren't large enough for a person to fit through.

Charles Mayo, also a marine biologist at the Center for Coastal Studies, agreed.

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"It's a little like sitting down to a really nice meal, and into your mouth flies a fly," he told CNN.

Mayo said his son, Josiah, is the captain on Packard's boat, responsible for tracking the diver's movements by his air bubbles. Mayo told CNN he was there when his son brought Packard ashore, and emergency services immobilised him and brought him to the hospital.

Mayo, like Robbins, could not recall a similar situation in which a diver ended up in a humpback's mouth.

Packard was in real danger, Mayo said, if not from the whale's gullet, then from the air pressure in his own lungs as the whale surfaced to spit him out.

"If you come up to atmospheric pressure, and you've held your breath, you could develop an embolism," Mayo said.

"He must have kept his cool," Mayo said.

"To get out of a situation like that you have to be a top pro."

"The reason he's still around is because he's smart," Mayo said of Packard.

"He's a smart guy, he's a tough guy, and he's a lucky guy."