{"id":210897,"date":"2026-01-01T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:11:13","slug":"hundreds-of-homes-and-businesses-still-without-power-after-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210897\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of homes and businesses still without power after storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4MQRPHM_copyright_image_235235.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"22363608 - electricity pylon against the blue sky\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>Repair crews are trying to restore electricity to hundreds of households and businesses in the North Island, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/582878\/power-outages-heavy-rain-and-strong-gales-as-wild-weather-heads-south\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">storms knocked out supplies this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 10,000 properties lost power in the Tasman district on Tuesday after trees came down on powerlines. Network Tasman restored the vast majority by that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Powerco&#8217;s website showed about 1000 properties spread around the Coromandel Peninsula, Palmerston North and Taranaki also lost power.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Powerco said more than 160 properties are still without of power, mostly in the Manawat\u016b and Thames-Coromandel regions.<\/p>\n<p>In Horowhenua, there are close to 150 customers without power, mostly around Tokomaru and Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are being urged to conserve water in Foxton and Foxton Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 123RF Repair crews are trying to restore electricity to hundreds of households and businesses in the North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-210897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}