Adam Pearse: NZ Herald reporter on the destruction in Hawke's Bay and Puketapu - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

In Hawke's Bay, many communities face another night without power, with 37,000 homes out across the region, more than three quarters of them in Napier.

Essential supplies are getting to isolated parts of Hawke's Bay and Tairawhiti.

NZ Herald reporter Adam Pearse visited rural Hawke's Bay town Puketapu today.

He says the village looks like a bomb site, with roads covered in mud and water and homes destroyed.

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