The cleanup is continuing on the Coromandel Peninsula today after bad weather lashed the region.
State Highway 25 between the Tairua River and Hikuai was closed yesterday due to flooding and only reopened around 11:30pm.
Rain and wind lashed the north of the North Island over the weekend, with the Coromandel copping the worst of it.
Garry Towler is Civil Defence controller in the Coromandel-Thames district.
