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Relentless rain brings flooding, slips, power cuts as storm crosses North Island
Firemen work to clear Mary St in Huntly after a heavy downpour on Sunday.
Torrential rain and thunderstorms are moving over the top of the North Island, hitting already saturated ground and bringing flooding and slips.
Two homes have been evacuated after a slip in Huntly, in north Waikato.
Both houses were on Riverview Rd.
One of the houses was been damaged by a landslip and the other was flooded, police said.
Waikato District Council service delivery general manager Tim Harty said both families from the homes were safe.
He said the council was monitoring the situation.
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People were inside a home when the slip happened but they were uninjured, sergeant Andrew Osborn had earlier said.
The road was covered in one metre deep of water, he added.
Riverview Road residents Audrey and Garry Cox, who have lived in the area for 36 years, said flooding along the road had never been as bad as it was on Sunday.
"We just got that heavy rain at 4pm. It just started hosing down. By 5pm
The sky just opened up," Audrey Cox said. "It was unreal."
Diversions are in place while local authorities attend to the flooding.
At the northern end of Riverview Road, traffic is being diverted back to SH1. At the southern end, at Ngaruawahia, there's a diversion in place to run traffic back onto SH1.
Senior Fire Communications manager Scott Osmond said there were a number of fire trucks across Huntly assisting with the clean up.
He said the flooding may have been caused by a bust dam.
There were also reports of hail falling in central Hawke's Bay.
MetService Meteorologist Hannah Moes told NZME there was an isolated storm in the area, which was quite active, just before 5pm.
Residents described overflowing gutters and a carpet of hail on the ground.
AUCKLAND FLOODING
The heavy rain also flooded homes across Auckland's North Shore on Sunday morning.
Torbay resident Megan Wilson said her road had become a "raging river" with trees and a barbecue floating past her house.
It's the worst flooding I've seen in 14 years of living here," she said.
A MetService spokesman said Mairangi Bay on Auckland's North Shore had weathered the area's heaviest localised downpour - 21mm of rain fell between 9am and 10am.
The Fire Service reported that homes in Takapuna, Murray's Bay, Whangaparaoa, Forrest Hill and Browns Bay were hit by flooding.
Further downpours and the odd thunder storm were expected in Auckland and the Coromandel throughout the afternoon.
Rain was subsiding in Auckland by late morning but residents of Coromandel beach town Pauanui confirmed it was still "absolutely pouring" there.
North of Auckland in Waiwera, emergency services have responded to a slip that closed Waiwera Road. The Fire Service said traffic was stopped between Weranui Road and Waiwera Hot Pools but there would be "no evacuation at this stage."
By 2pm one lane had been reopened, and several trees were being removed.
Fifteen homes in Auckland's East Coast Bays had been hit by flooding, the Fire Service said, with 12 fire trucks deployed.
The floods were subsiding by 10.20am, they said.
A Vector spokesman said it had been an "unusually busy" day for the North Shore, with power outages in Campbells Bay, Castor Bay and Forrest Hill. Power was expected to be restored about 2pm.
Other outages struck other North Shore communities on Saturday morning, but power to those areas had been restored.
MOTORISTS SHOULD TAKE CARE
Motorists are advised to take care in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Waitomo, Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty. Many of these areas were hit by heavy rain and floods a week ago.
The New Zealand Transport Agency reported a large slip on State Highway 25a, 10km from the Thames-Kopu turnoff.
The westbound lane was blocked and a traffic management crew were at the scene.
They also reported serval "passable" slips along the western side of State Highway 25, between Thames and Coromandel township.
Control Gates Bridge on the outskirts of Taupo was reported to be experiencing surface flooding at 8.30am.
RAIN MOVING EAST
Some 20mm to 40mm of rain could accumulate during Sunday morning, though some areas could see 40mm to 60mm. Metservice said.
Thunderstorms are also forecast.
The front bringing the rain is expected to move eastwards across New Zealand during Sunday.
MetService said people should keep up to date with forecasts in case any areas already in the weather watch areas need to be included in a warning, or new areas are added to the watch.
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MetService Meteorologist Hannah Moes told NZME there was an isolated storm in the area, which was quite active, just before 5pm.
Residents described overflowing gutters and a carpet of hail on the ground.
AUCKLAND FLOODING
The heavy rain also flooded homes across Auckland's North Shore on Sunday morning.
Torbay resident Megan Wilson said her road had become a "raging river" with trees and a barbecue floating past her house.
It's the worst flooding I've seen in 14 years of living here," she said.
A MetService spokesman said Mairangi Bay on Auckland's North Shore had weathered the area's heaviest localised downpour - 21mm of rain fell between 9am and 10am.
The Fire Service reported that homes in Takapuna, Murray's Bay, Whangaparaoa, Forrest Hill and Browns Bay were hit by flooding.
Further downpours and the odd thunder storm were expected in Auckland and the Coromandel throughout the afternoon.
Rain was subsiding in Auckland by late morning but residents of Coromandel beach town Pauanui confirmed it was still "absolutely pouring" there.
North of Auckland in Waiwera, emergency services have responded to a slip that closed Waiwera Road. The Fire Service said traffic was stopped between Weranui Road and Waiwera Hot Pools but there would be "no evacuation at this stage."
By 2pm one lane had been reopened, and several trees were being removed.
Fifteen homes in Auckland's East Coast Bays had been hit by flooding, the Fire Service said, with 12 fire trucks deployed.
The floods were subsiding by 10.20am, they said.
A Vector spokesman said it had been an "unusually busy" day for the North Shore, with power outages in Campbells Bay, Castor Bay and Forrest Hill. Power was expected to be restored about 2pm.
Other outages struck other North Shore communities on Saturday morning, but power to those areas had been restored.
MOTORISTS SHOULD TAKE CARE
Motorists are advised to take care in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Waitomo, Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty. Many of these areas were hit by heavy rain and floods a week ago.
The New Zealand Transport Agency reported a large slip on State Highway 25a, 10km from the Thames-Kopu turnoff.
The westbound lane was blocked and a traffic management crew were at the scene.
They also reported serval "passable" slips along the western side of State Highway 25, between Thames and Coromandel township.
Control Gates Bridge on the outskirts of Taupo was reported to be experiencing surface flooding at 8.30am.
RAIN MOVING EAST
Some 20mm to 40mm of rain could accumulate during Sunday morning, though some areas could see 40mm to 60mm. Metservice said.
Thunderstorms are also forecast.
The front bringing the rain is expected to move eastwards across New Zealand during Sunday.
MetService said people should keep up to date with forecasts in case any areas already in the weather watch areas need to be included in a warning, or new areas are added to the watch.
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