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\nWork resumes at the Mount Maunganui landslide site on January 26.
\nPhoto: RNZ\/Nick Monro\n<\/p>\n
Regions across the North Island are recovering from last week’s deadly storms.<\/p>\n
Homes were evacuated, floods covered districts, and slips blocked roads and took lives in the worst hit areas.<\/p>\n
RNZ breaks down just how devastating last week’s storm was by the numbers.<\/p>\n
Death toll<\/p>\n
Nine people have been killed or are presumed dead after last week’s storms.<\/p>\n
Police said some remains of victims had been found and six people were unaccounted for<\/a> following the slip at a popular campground.<\/p>\n \nMax Furse-Kee, 15, Sharon Maccanico, 15 and Susan Knowles, 71, are three of the six Mt Maunganui landslide victims. Two Auckland teenagers, a Swedish tourist and a Morrinsville teacher were among the missing.<\/p>\n In P\u0101p\u0101moa, a child was killed alongside his grandmother after a landslide<\/a> struck a house in Welcome Bay.<\/p>\n The body of a 47-year-old man was found in Warkworth<\/a>, North Auckland, after he was washed away while fording a river earlier last week.<\/p>\n In 2023, eight people were killed in Hawkes Bay during Cyclone Gabrielle. The total death toll in that storm was 11.<\/a><\/p>\n Rainfall<\/p>\n A number of places across the North Island saw their wettest day on record last week.<\/p>\n MetService said Tauranga, Whitianga, and Whakat\u0101ne all saw their records broken on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \nFlooding near Papamoa Hills, Tauranga, in the area where a house was destroyed in a slip overnight. Tauranga received 274mm of rain, making it the wettest day on record, while Whitianga saw 247.6mm, and 114.2mm for Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n From midnight on Wednesday to midday Thursday, Whitianga also saw a months’ worth of rain, 353mm.<\/p>\n \nFlooding in Whitianga last week. Other places that faced a months’ rain in 36 hours Hicks Bay, Whakat\u0101ne, and Kerikeri, MetService said.<\/p>\n Slips<\/p>\n NZTA reported a number of slips across the roading network in storm hit regions.<\/p>\n There are 40 slip and debris sites now confirmed in the Waioweka Gorge, with seven severe sites.<\/p>\n \nA slip on State Highway 2 through the Waioweka Gorge. “We estimate that in total a minimum of 1,000 more truck loads at of debris will need to be removed from the area.” said Rob Service, NZTA’s Controller for State Highway Two\/Waioweka Gorge Response and Recovery.<\/p>\n Recovery work had also restarted at the Mount Maunganui slip on Monday morning.<\/p>\n Work was put on hold on Sunday due to the risk of further slips after a crack was spotted on the cliff face.<\/p>\n Property Damage<\/p>\n A number of buildings were badly hit during the wild weather.<\/p>\n In the Coromandel, ten properties had been red stickered, meaning they were unsafe to return to.<\/p>\n A further 16 had also been yellow stickered, while 16 others had been white stickered.<\/p>\n \nA property is extensively damaged as a landslide on Mount Paku’s Motuhoa Road comes down behind it. There been 115 properties damaged, however Thames Coromandel Civil Defence said that figure could change.<\/p>\n In the Bay of Plenty, four red placards and 11 yellow placards had been issued.<\/p>\n Tauranga City Council Controller Tom McEntyre said council conducted a number of rapid building assessments across the city.<\/p>\n “The assessed locations are dispersed across Tauranga, including Welcome Bay, Gate P\u0101, Bethlehem, and \u014ct\u016bmoetai,” he said.<\/p>\n Several properties in the Whang\u0101rei District had also been red and yellow stickered<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Max](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUAD8Y_Mt_Maunganui_victims_2_jpg.jpeg\")
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