Power cuts, wild wind and rain hammer WellingtonLUCY SWINNEN/STUFF Wind and rain lash the road at Moa Point, Wellington, near the airport. Hundreds are without power and many flights are cancelled as a wild storm hammers the Wellington region with the force of a tropical cyclone. Cook Strait ferries and Wellington harbour ferries have been cancelled. It's whipped up wind gusts as high as 160 kilometres an hour and waves as big as 10 metres in the Cook Strait. FERRIESAll Cook Strait ferry sailings have been cancelled, as have morning sailings of the East by West ferry between Wellington and Eastbourne.- Stuff

Source: Stuff July 12, 2017 19:29 UTC