{"id":13227,"date":"2025-04-08T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:38:59","slug":"tornado-tears-roofs-off-tree-hits-car-on-sh1-as-strong-winds-lash-lower-north-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13227","title":{"rendered":"Tornado tears roofs off, tree hits car on SH1 as strong winds lash lower North Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
Levin resident says roads blocked, windows smashed, roof blown off<\/h5>\n

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A Levin resident says roads are blocked, schools are closed, windows are smashed and mess is strewn through the streets in his town this morning.<\/div>\n

Horowhenua District Council says initial reports suggest Levin was hit by a “mini Tornado” at about 7.45am.<\/p>\n

Resident T-Y Sager says the noise of the wind and rain has been deafening and he could barely see anything out of his windows when he got up.<\/p>\n

His house wasn’t struck by the tornado but he says its impact is clear – with multiple houses having lost their roofs.<\/p>\n

Sager says the storm eased for a few minutes after the tornado, but it’s picked back up.<\/p>\n

He says it’s eerie to hear alarms going off right through the town.<\/p>\n

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Levin resident says roads blocked, windows smashed, roof blown off   A Levin resident says roads are blocked, schools are closed, windows are smashed and mess is strewn through the streets in his town this morning. Horowhenua District Council says initial reports suggest Levin was hit by a “mini Tornado” at about 7.45am. Resident T-Y […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13229,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions\/13229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}