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Power restored to Northland houses

Published on July 18^th 2009, 8:21pm

Power should be restored on Saturday night to the last of the 5,000 buildings without electricity in Northland after high winds and wild weather hit parts of the North Island.

Northpower, which supplies power to Northland, reported widespread cuts as a result of high winds from Whangarei to Twin Bridge, 28 km south of Kaikohe.

About 80 or so lines still down early Saturday evening were expected to be fixed later in the night, Northpower network services manager Graham Dawson said.

Fifty people had been fixing the power outages to 5,000 houses and farm buildings.

“There wasn’t a weather warning out, and I think it was a bit like a small weather bomb up here,” Dawson told NZPA.

“It was a bit unexpected certainly, but we reacted pretty quickly to it.”

Heavy rain and winds started last night and continued today. However, severe gales in the outer Hauraki Gulf and northern Coromandel Peninsula, and heavy rain in Eastern Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and northern Hawke’s Bay, had eased by late afternoon, MetService said.

Read the article at TVNZ’s website

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