A resident on Auckland's North Shore thought bombs were going off on Saturday afternoon when a car collided with a power transformer.
Nicholas Lee says he was sitting in the lounge of his family's Stanmore Bay home when there was a big bang outside the window.
He says the TV and all other appliances went off.
Nicholas Lee says he thought there were bombs were going off.
He says it was not just a bang; it sounded like a proper explosion.
A Vector spokeswoman says the power outage, which affected 500 customers, was caused when a car hit a transformer.
She says electricity is progressively being restored to the area.
It is the second power outage to affect North Shore residents in the past two days.
A quarter of a million people between Auckland and Northland had their power cut on Friday when a forklift hit a powerline.
Police say Saturday afternoon's incident happened in Brightside Road at around 4:30.
