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The Gisborne and Wairoa areas managed to avoid major flooding and weather damage overnight despite having received steady rainfall. However, as soon as one
With rain still falling in the Gisborne area after severe flooding, roading contractors are trying to repair routes to areas where residents are cut off, and detours round closed highway.
Civil defence in Tolaga Bay, north of Gisborne, has described rainfall overnight as "unrelenting" as Tairāwhiti enters a state of emergency caused by severe flooding.