Spectacular  lightning at Piha captured on the Herald website. It’s hitting the old radar station site which is littered with GPS, omni directional antenna, VHF, police repeater station. Could these attract such a strike? My physics isn’t up to that one.

The same storm caused tornadoes at Hobsonville, killing three workers on the Hobsonville Primary School site, and hospitalising seven.

150 homes out of order and 250 people currently being looked after by the air force at the Whenuapai Base.