Power was cut to 800 Te Puke properties for up to eight hours over the weekend after rain washed out a power pole on No 3 Rd.
It was one of the few areas to experience problems from the wet Saturday which dropped nearly 54mm on Tauranga and 109mm on the Kaimais.
The rain, which totalled nearly 40 per cent of Tauranga's April average, did not cause any serious issues for emergency services because there were no big downpours.
There was some surface flooding of roads and highways, particularly the eastern side of Totara St by the salt works, and cars were spotted conked out at traffic lights from moisture getting under engine distributor caps.
But the worst impact was reserved for Te Puke. The town's chief fire officer Glenn Williams said the brigade was called out at 10.23pm on Saturday to where a power pole had come down on the edge of a bank.