Northland state of emergency

With just a "normal" amount of rain forecast for next couple of days, Northland Civil Defence Emergency Management chair and deputy mayor Kelly Stratford told ...

["Our precaution with the state of emergency was good for Te Tai Tokerau" - Huhana Lyndon of Tuparehuia Marae duration 2:58](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018875935/some-whangarei-areas-affected-by-flooding) ["Our precaution with the state of emergency was good for Te Tai Tokerau" - Huhana Lyndon of Tuparehuia Marae](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018875935/some-whangarei-areas-affected-by-flooding) We were all very happy." Northpower said more than 500 customers suffered a power cut just before 11pm after trees fell across lines. "The indications at this early stage are that we may not have as much rain out of this event as was originally forecast." ["We were all very happy" - deputy mayor Kelly Stratford duration 3:39](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018875905/heavy-rain-arrives-in-auckland-after-moving-across-northland) ["We were all very happy" - deputy mayor Kelly Stratford](/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018875905/heavy-rain-arrives-in-auckland-after-moving-across-northland) "Yesterday was, as things developed through the day and the weather pattern was quite fast in the beginning and it slowed down, there was a couple of hours there where that sense of uncertainty was heightened.