Hundreds of households on the North Island's East Coast are still without power this morning.
After heavy rain lashed parts of the country overnight, 734 customers spent the night without power around Gisbourne, The Coast and Wairoa.
The lines company hope to make good progress today on fixing multiple faults.
Eastland Network is hoping to get them reconnected today.
A feeder electricity line along Riverside Road in Gisborne suddenly slipped away at around 4.30 yesterday contributing to the outages.
Check the status of power being returned in the region here.
John Edwards and his dogs were on a mission to rescue sheep between Gisborne and Te Karaka.
Elsewhere, roads to Kaikoura are closed as a precaution this morning, as well as State highway 5 from Taupo to Napier.
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