The cyclone has given the battered Coromandel Peninsula another whack — with more on the way.
Crews are working to clear widespread damage to the roads, with a lot of land unstable.
There have also been power outages.
Coromandel-Thames Civil Defence Gary Towler says that the region probably has up to 36 hours left of the storm to ride out.
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