A Tairua couple woke to screaming after a landslide narrowly missed their house in the dark of the night.
The Coromandel Peninsula was just one of 5 regions put into a State of emergency after a severe red rain warning hammered the East Coast of the North Island on Wednesday.
Tairua was one of the worst hit in the Coromandel, all roads in and out completely cut off, without power and limited access to water.
John Drummond had lived there, on Mount Paku in Motuhoa Rd, for decades, it's not the first slip he'd seen but it was the
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