Auckland is still feeling the effects of Tuesday night's storm that battered the region with severe winds - with thousands of homes still without electricity.
Critics say Aucklanders were left unprepared when the storm hit (Source: Other)
Power company Vector says more than 45,000 homes are without electricity, down from 79,000 last night.
Several thousand homes could be without power for a few days, but Vector says they’ll have a better idea of how many people this will be exactly this afternoon.
"Vector is aware of the outages the public are reporting to us, even though our outage map and app are not displaying up-to-date information," they say in a statement.
"Outage response crews are prioritising jobs to restore power to critical infrastructure like network feeders (which supply power to large groups of homes and buildings) and other infrastructure like cell phone towers, water and sewage plants, and more."
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