{"id":22485,"date":"2025-09-14T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:01:08","slug":"storm-damage-leaves-1695-homes-without-power-across-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/22485\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm damage leaves 1695 homes without power across North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"A photo taken of damage to a section of line north of Whangamat\u0101. Photo \/ Powerco\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A photo taken of damage to a section of line north of Whangamat\u0101. Photo \/ Powerco<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThank you for your patience and understanding as our crews work as quickly and safely as they can to restore power to all customers affected by these high winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know it\u2019s hard to be without power, and we will do everything we can to get as many customers restored as quickly as possible, but this storm has caused damage in a lot of different locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor that reason, it\u2019s important that, if you are affected by an outage because of storm damage, you prepare to be without power overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhile we have had extra crews join the restoration on Sunday, we have multiple poles and lines down in a number of locations. We will be doing all we can with the technology we have in place to minimise the outage areas; however, we will need time to make repairs to physical damage, such as restringing long sections of broken lines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo taken of damage to a section of line north of Whangamat\u0101. Photo \/ Powerco \u201cThank you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23363,2840,74,23364,22510,4510,19345,42,6800,8454,2514,7973,101,43,529,1562,10112,23365,673,2742,40,38,41,39,23366,1339,19135],"class_list":["post-22485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-23363","tag-across","tag-after","tag-crews","tag-damage","tag-dark","tag-field","tag-headlines","tag-homes","tag-including","tag-island","tag-leaves","tag-left","tag-news","tag-north","tag-plenty","tag-power","tag-restore","tag-storm","tag-thousands","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weekends","tag-without","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485","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=22485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}