6 Jan 2018

Wild weather hits in summer time

From Up This Way, 8:08 am on 6 January 2018
Flooding in Kaiaua.

Flooding in Kaiaua. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook

King tides, power outages, flooding - the country's already been battered by its first storm of the year and we're only six days in. The torrential rain swept across the top of the North Island before moving down the country. A woman died after a large tree, brought down by the hurricane-strength wind, crushed her car in Rotorua.