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In South Taranaki, the Kaupokonui River was running so high, it lapped the ends of the footbridge near the beach and water covered SH45 at the Glenn Rd bridge. Jason Slade, of Hāwera, went down for a look at Kaupokonui Beach about 2.30pm, just before high tide, after hearing the river was running high. “It was the highest he had ever seen it, and I have lived in Hāwera since 1997,” he said. Supplied/Stuff Jason Slade photographed the water reaching the end of the footbridge over the Kaupokonui River near the campground, about 2.30pm on Saturday. Electricity was cut off in various places across the region during the storm. ....
“The fire brigade was there in minutes. They got straight to it,” Reade said. Daughter Hannah, 10, watched from a safe distance as her mum knocked on the door of the burning house to make sure there was nobody home. The fire was the most dramatic event these school holidays for Hannah and her brother Connor, 12, who watched the fire crews at work, along with other neighbours along the street. “I was shaking,” she said. Catherine Groenestein/Stuff A sheet of plywood covers the broken window in a HÄwera house after a fire on Wednesday evening. Chief fire officer Mike Fairweather said the house was just moments away from a much more damaging blaze when a crew from the Hāwera Volunteer Fire Brigade arrived just after 7pm. ....