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Parts of the North Island are continuing to feel the effects of the storm which battered parts of the country last week.
About 140 homes in the Rodney District and on Auckland's North Shore are still without power while farms near Wellsford are still flooded.
In the Coromandel, two schools were evacuated yesterday as a precautionary measure after heavy rain caused flooding and road closures in the area.
Environment Waikato emergency management officer Jan Hania said Parawai School and Thames High School were evacuated and SH25 was closed between Thames and Coromandel as well as between Whitianga, Coroglen and Hikuai.
She said a localised, intensive band of rain over the upper-middle Coromandel saw 212mm of rain recorded at the Pinnacles monitoring station over the past 24 hours, peaking at a maximum intensity of 23mm an hour.
The MetService yesterday issued a heavy rain warning for the eastern side of the North Island, saying up to 130mm of rain could fall overnight and today.
MetService forecaster Rakesh Lal said downpours were expected in the Hawkes Bay ranges and warned people of possible rapidly rising rivers and streams.
Rain was also forecast for coastal Marlborough and Canterbury but, in contrast, other parts of the South Island would remain mostly fine this week.
- NZPA
