It seems like Wainuiomata got smashed by the unusually strong westerly winds today/tonight. I am assuming that this is the same all across the region. I stopped counting when the local volunteer fire brigade had responded to 13 incidents early this evening.

There is a snippet of footage of a line of trees (probably a wind break) all coming down at once on the Stuff live news thing.

Happily, it sounds like the wind has died down a lot now.

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