If ever a weather event was deceptively named, it's Debbie.
Though her name may conjure up images of your kindly aunt, Cyclone Debbie has turned out to be far from kind.
First it wreaked havoc across the Tasman and yesterday it hit New Zealand. While the Bay of Plenty was
not hit as hard as other parts of the North Island - in particular Whanganui - she still managed to inflict some serious damage.
Lake Rotorua was flooding over on to the paths and grass surrounding it, with choppy water making it look more like the sea than a lake. Meanwhile, wastewater overflowed from a pond at the city's wastewater treatment plant into a stream - for the second time in a month.
The base track on Mauao was closed for public safety while roads around the region saw flooding, slips cut off major roads and trees were uprooted.
