This is not America. Tornadoes are (or used to be) rare.
These tornadoes were in different parts of the North Island.
These tornadoes were in different parts of the North Island.
Tornado
terror: Buildings 'blown apart' by twisters
21
August, 2018
A
New Plymouth woman has spoken about the frightening experience of
seeing her roof ripped off in a tornado.
Residents
in Ōhope and New Plymouth are currently assessing the damage caused
by twisters that struck the area at around 6pm on Monday.
Odette
Bastin told The AM Show she looked up to see her roof was gone.
"I
was in my dining room just doing some paperwork and my son sort of
looked out the window and yelled at me that the tramp was going and
it's bolted to the ground but it's disappeared," she said.
"And
then there's a door in my ceiling that sort of goes into the roof, it
flew open and I looked up and there was no roof."
Ms
Bastin said the loss of the roof caused a loud bang and her house is
not the only one that was damaged.
"There's
definitely a lot of damage in the area," she said.
"The
neighbours right next to me were safe which is good, across the road
have lost half their house or just half their roof sorry."
Fire
and Emergency northern shift manager Craig Dally said some of the
damage in the area appears to be quite bad.
"I
believe some of the houses have been evacuated," he told
Newshub.
A
building at the Ōhope Top 10 Holiday Park in Whakatane suffered
serious damage as the tornado struck.
Ōhope
Beach Top 10 Holiday park manager Mark Inman said a building at the
camp had been "completely blown apart" by the rapidly
rotating column of air.
Mr
Inman said campers were all accounted for, but it was difficult to
check the site because it was so dark.
A
separate tornado also damaged several houses in 300km away in New
Plymouth, tearing up fences, smashing windows and ripping off a roof.
Police
said while a number of properties had been reported damaged, it was
too early to confirm exactly how many and there had been no reported
injuries.
New
Plymouth resident John Demchy says he stood at his door in terror as
one of the tornadoes ripped through the area.
"Out
of the corner of my eye I caught all that iron coming off the roof up
there and it came down, touched the house and then the wind picked it
up again and [it] finished off in the driveway," he said.
A
MetService spokesperson confirmed to The AM Show that there was no
longer a high risk of tornadoes in the region on Tuesday.
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