Here she Comes; Cyclone Lusi Police said many roads in the north were scattered with debris this morning and caution was needed in particularly on SH14 between Whangarei and Dargaville. Northland regional council civil defence manager Graeme MacDonald said it was a fairly quiet night, with some trees coming down onto power lines, causing some minor outages affecting very few people. There were also a debris from trees down across roads but this was not widespread, he said. Auckland power lines company Vector has recorded eight power outages this morning, cutting off almost 2000 homes. The worst affected areas were parts of Snells Beach and Clevedon, where uo to 900 people were left without electricity. Vector estimated the outages would be fixed by 10.30am. The weather has also hit Auckland, with eastern areas getting wind gusts of up to 100kmh this morning, Corbett said. He described it as a weather octopus, with layers of rain bands lashing northern areas. Think of it almost like an octopus flailing its legs. The first band of rain is down to Waikato, extending to Gisborne ranges. The second band of heavy persistent rain is now coming through Auckland and then the whole thing is spreading south. The centre of Cyclone Lusi continued to weaken but that would not mean the weather would be any less severe than predicted, Corbett said. Mother Nature has not had a bad hair day yesterday and said no its changed. The actual centre is losing its tropical characteristics, we still call it Cyclone Lusi but the winds have eased down to no more than 100kmh [in the centre] but because it is such a wide windfield we dont just focus on the centre Weve got this big wide suede of potentially damaging winds and rain and that is whats spreading down the country now, he said. Its still going to be some nasty weather in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:59:15 +0000
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