Power it out to hundreds, large slips have blocked roads, and Bay of Plenty people are waking up to count the damage after Cyclone Cook hit last night.
A large slip has shut down State Highway 29 this morning and another has just been reported blocking Te Puna Quarry Rd.
Roads across Edgecumbe remain under water and there are a number of closures on SH2 between Tauranga and Opotiki.
Large trees toppled in the storm were blocking the highway between Otamarakau and Matata.
In an update at 10.45am, Powerco said faultmen were busy restoring supply to about 570 Powerco customers in the Bay of Plenty, Wairarapa and Whanganui.
Powerco network operations manager Phil Marsh said it was hoped to most would be reconnected today although flooding and heavy ground was causing access problems in a couple of locations.
"Fortunately we avoided the brunt of the storm and the impact on our network was not as severe as anticipated," he said.
"Te Puke suffered the worst damage with trees bringing down high voltage lines and affecting power supply to about 350 customers. Matakana Island was also affected with 180 customers out originally but we have been able to restore service to all but 20."
Whakatane and the Eastern Bay of Plenty appeared to have suffered the worst from Cyclone Cook.
Metservice meteorologist Rod Kerr said 63.6mm of rain fell in Tauranga between 9am and 9pm yesterday.
The peak rainfall was between 5pm and 6pm, when 22.8mm of rain fell in the city.
Peak gusts reached 87km/hr.
In Whakatane, 43.4mm of rain and gusts over 100km/hr were recorded before the station stopped transmitting about 7pm.
Mr Kerr said the weather had eased today and there was likely to be light showers throughout the day. There was even a possibility of patches of blue sky.
Tauranga City Council logged a total of 314 service requests in the last two days.
These included 188 sandbag requests, 27 calls for flooding on properties (not dwellings), 18 parks (trees etc) and 18 roading. The rest of the calls were unrelated to the weather event.