{"id":2168,"date":"2023-01-12T05:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2023-01-12T05:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:47:55","slug":"cyclone-hale-weakening-multiple-roads-still-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Hale weakening, multiple roads still closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">MetService says while Cyclone Hale is weakening over the North Island, heavy rain and strong winds will continue to hit some areas for the next few hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heavy rain warnings are still in place for the eastern hills and ranges of Wairarapa to midnight and for Mount Taranaki through to 6am tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>Several rural Wairarapa roads remain closed due to flooding and slips.<\/p>\n<p>Roads between Masterton and the East Coast have been closed, including Masterton-Castlepoint road which cuts off Castlepoint, Riversdale, Whareama, Whakataki and Tinui.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins contractors said some roads in the area are also down to one lane due to flooding and fallen trees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">State Highway 2 is closed between Wairoa and Napier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifty-nine local roads are closed with issues of flooding, significant dropouts and slips.<\/p>\n<p>The Tair\u0101whiti Civil Defence said river levels around the area are dropping rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetService says while Cyclone Hale is weakening over the North Island, heavy rain and strong winds will continue to hit some areas for the next few hours. Heavy rain warnings are still in place for the eastern hills and ranges of Wairarapa to midnight and for Mount Taranaki through to 6am tomorrow morning. Several rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","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\/2168","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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}