Storm causes power cuts, flight disruptions in New Zealand

‘Severe wind, rain, and snow caused flight disruptions, road closures and power outages across New Zealand on Thursday, when the South Pacific island nation was hit by a storm carrying gales of up to 160 kilometers an hour.
The southerly gales rattled the capital, Wellington, as the storm moved north toward Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.
More than 10,000 properties on the North Island were hit by power cuts, several highways were shut, and ferries that travel across the Cook Strait between the North and South islands were suspended because of towering waves, domestic media reported.’
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