By RNZ
Parts of the Coromandel Peninsula are without power entering a fifth day and many roads remain closed as towns continue to clean up after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Coromandel-Thames Civil Defence controller Garry Towler told RNZ that with people still displaced from their homes the focus was on welfare support.
![People wade through waist-high water after abandoning their car on the road to Hahei on the Coromandel Peninsula. Photo / Matthew Davison](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/F7RWVS55GFE6ZF7O7DGNIYEVKU.png?auth=dff6f2ed275421ae5b57261ec195f5f60ffe18e6b1629fa911ebeb5fdaae66cb&width=16&height=10&quality=70&smart=true)
A break in the weather allowed for power restoration into Tairua and the roading network was opened up enough for Powerco to bring in big generators, Towler said.