Thousands of households across the South Island remain without power and face water shortages following severe wind and flooding that damaged infrastructure, toppled trees, and forced evacuations in vulnerable communities.
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tree damage leads to unplanned blackouts
Roads warnings, closures remain as MetService lifts warnings for top of South Islandwidespread and prolonged outages due to wind damage
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