Whang\u0101rei mayor Ken Couper told\u00a0Morning Report<\/i>\u00a0a number of people are still isolated in a Department of Conservation campsite in Puriri Bay, which is next to the Whangaruru Harbour.<\/p>\n Whang\u0101rei mayor Ken Couper.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ LDR<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n He said they are not short on food or supplies, but he will be looking to provide them with fuel for generators.<\/p>\n Couper said the main focus is on making sure they are ready for the next deluge of rain before the clean-up can begin.<\/p>\n MetService has issued a heavy rain watch for Northland from 6pm on Monday until 6pm on Tuesday. It said periods of heavy rain, with thunderstorms and localised downpours were possible.<\/p>\n The watch has a moderate chance of being upgraded to a warning, the forecasting agency said.<\/p>\n There are also heavy rain watches in place for Auckland north of the Harbour Bridge and the Coromandel Peninsula from midnight.<\/p>\n Earth Sciences New Zealand, formely Niwa, said the heaviest rain for the region was likely to be on Wednesday.<\/p>\n In addition to the rain, MetService said strong easterlies were expected in the north of the North Island, and there was low confidence that a wind warning would be needed for Northland and Auckland.<\/p>\n Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some people are still isolated in Northland after heavy rain caused havoc in the region with more set to hammer the top of the North Island. Up to 200 millimetres of rain lashed Northland on Sunday, causing\u00a0flooding and landslides. Whang\u0101rei mayor Ken Couper told\u00a0Morning Report\u00a0a number of people are still isolated in a Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348","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=16348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16350,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions\/16350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n