The rain has eased on sodden Hawke's Bay as the mop up from this week's extreme weather begins.
Civil Defence on Thursday declared a state of emergency for the region after extreme weather forced the evacuation of more than 100 people from 14 coastal communities.
It was not yet known when the state of emergency would be lifted, Central Hawke's Bay Civil Defence emergency management officer Bruce Kitto said.
"We'll assess it as we go through the day and through the weekend, I don't know that it will happen today at this stage, but it may do."
There would be a staff briefing at 9am today, he said.
"We've got building inspectors going out to the coast to start building inspections and stuff like that and then we're getting into notifying people of what the situation is with their properties."
There had been no more evacuations or road closures overnight.
Yesterday, up to five children were evacuated by helicopter from Aramoana and eight people by four-wheel drive from Mangakuri.
It was expected to take up to three weeks to reopen access to Aramoana, and access to the southern end of Pourerere Beach was closed indefinitely, Central Hawke's Bay Civil Defence local controller Te Aroha Cook said.
The closed beaches could only be reached by people with an authorised permit, Mr Kitto said.
He said this morning there had been a frost, and the weather now was "not too bad".
Today's Hawke's Bay weather forecast was "cloud increasing this morning and a few drizzle patches developing, mostly about the ranges", MetService said.
NZPA