Meanwhile, a Tawa family fear being badly out of pocket to fix a retaining wall that was damaged by a slip that started on their property.<\/p>\n
Wild weather in the Wellington Region<\/a> and Wairarapa<\/a> saw trees, slips, and debris, with winds of up to 150 kph.<\/p>\n The storm left thousands of properties without power.<\/p>\n Wellington Electricity said it was on track to restore power to all those affected by the end of Monday.<\/p>\n Crews were focused on about 59 properties without power in Porirua and Wellington’s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n Damage at Karori Cemetery after strong winds downed trees. (Source: Friends of Karori Cemetery)<\/p>\n The chairperson of volunteer group Friends of Karori Cemetery, Kieran William, said pine and gum trees damaged historic graves.<\/p>\n A marble cross was crushed, which sat on top of one of the earliest graves in the cemetery.<\/p>\n The group hoped the council would do more proactive tree management for the old trees, noting the importance of the grave sites.<\/p>\n “All the graves talk about an early settler or people in Wellington’s early history that all have a story.”<\/p>\n The volunteer group offer popular tours of the cemetery, which shares different graves’ history.<\/p>\n A Wellington City Council spokesperson said it was focusing on removing the fallen trees and cleaning up the site before it looked at whether other trees would possibly warrant removal.<\/p>\n The slip on a property in Tawa. (Source: rnz.co.nz)<\/p>\n Slip on Tawa property ‘pretty horrific’<\/p>\n Tawa resident Karen Tui Boyes was left with a deep slip in her backyard just six metres away from the house.<\/p>\n “Someone upstairs heard the cracking through the rain, and then we went outside and went ‘uh oh’.”<\/p>\n The slip took out a section of a what she believes is a council owned retaining wall, and it she feared it could cost a lot of money to fix.<\/p>\n Boyes said she had lodged a claim with the Natural Hazards Commission, as well as her insurance, and now it was a waiting game.<\/p>\n She was grateful the slip did not fall onto anyone else’s land, as it was a council reserve beyond the fence.<\/p>\n Her hilltop property was exposed to the elements, and Saturday’s weather was “pretty horrific”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grave sites in a Wellington cemetery have been left crushed by fallen trees, after a wild storm rocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,6563,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-500716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-storms","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500716","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=500716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Damage](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/damage-at-karori-cemetery-after-strong-winds-downed-trees-4MITNHEWM5E3RDVS3EICENDLFY.jpg\")
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