Severe Weather Cuts Off Martinborough as 2,500 New Zealand Households Remain Without Power

3 articles · Updated · RNZ · Jun 27

More than 2,500 households were still without power on Saturday morning after severe weather battered central New Zealand, though outages had fallen from 7,000 properties on Friday.
Martinborough remained cut off after all routes in and out were closed, while many other Wairarapa roads were shut because of flooding and storm damage.
Firefighters responded to 165 weather-related callouts on Friday night, including loose roofing, sheds blown away and trees falling onto buildings.
South Wairarapa and Lower Hutt still faced slip risks even as forecasts pointed to the wild weather easing after Friday's storm.

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