{"id":2592,"date":"2023-01-27T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T04:15:18","slug":"wild-weather-crashes-power-cuts-as-severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-northern-nz-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Wild weather: Crashes, power cuts as severe thunderstorm watch issued for northern NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong wind and heavy rain are causing power cuts and car crashes across T\u0101maki Makaurau.<\/p>\n<p>Aucklanders have faced a chaotic commute ahead of the long weekend for the city&#8217;s anniversary with some ferries cancelled, and crashes on the northwestern and southwestern motorways.<\/p>\n<p>An amber alert was in place for the Harbour Bridge today from 7am until midday, meaning speeds were reduced and lanes could close.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on Auckland&#8217;s motorways was heavy and slow on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland ferries have been severely disrupted after a cruise ship lost its spring &#8211; the rope which attaches it to the wharf &#8211; this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A Ports of Auckland spokesperson confirmed the ship had to use its engine to reattach itself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--4OdVtb4d--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/4LEIZW1_IMG_0637_jpg\" alt=\"Auckland ferries have been severely disrupted after a cruise ship lost its spring on 27 January, 2023.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Auckland ferries have been severely disrupted after a cruise ship lost its spring on 27 January, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Eli Orzessek<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ship was the\u00a0<i>Noordam<\/i>, which arrived in Auckland this morning and berthed at Princes Wharf.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said there were significant gusts of wind as the boat was reattached. It has meant ferries were held in Waitemat\u0101 Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The website for Fullers Ferry lists several services &#8211; including from Devonport, Waiheke, Bayswater, Half Moon Bay and Birkenhead &#8211; as disrupted due to an incident with a cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>Ferries were already being disrupted by poor weather which has hit the region, causing the cancellation of some services this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong wind and heavy rain are causing power cuts and car crashes across T\u0101maki Makaurau. Aucklanders have faced a chaotic commute ahead of the long weekend for the city&#8217;s anniversary with some ferries cancelled, and crashes on the northwestern and southwestern motorways. An amber alert was in place for the Harbour Bridge today from 7am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","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\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}