the storm ravaged West Coast town of Haast New Zealand 

From one end of the West Coast to the other, devastation abounds.
The sheer scale of the damage becomes clear when looking from the sky: Flooded and sodden houses, tourists trapped between slips, a church knocked off its foundation, roads blocked by landslides and fallen trees - or washed away - dwellings in ruin and crews frantically working to reopen highways.
Stuff was the first media to fly into the cut-off town of Haast, in south Westland, on Friday where hundreds of people - mostly tourists - were stuck without phone coverage, internet or a way to withdraw money.
The clear-up across the Westland, Buller and Grey districts will take at least weeks. More likely, months. It is all due to former tropical cyclone Fehi lashing the region on Thursday, just as king tides arrived. The awful combination spelled sea surges, high winds, flash flooding, power outages and evacuations across the West Coast and Tasman.