BY IAN CROUCH
The Hunter has dodged a bullet from the East Coast Low over the weekend, although the State Emergency Service has been kept busy with dozens of calls.
Rainfall in some areas topped 300 millimetres and wind gusts reached around 100 kilometres per hour in isolated spots, but the region avoided the widespread devastation which marked last year's April Super Storm.
The Hunter Region SES attended to around 350 calls for help across the weekend mainly for leaking rooves, tree branches down and requests for sandbags.
