{"id":17369,"date":"2026-05-11T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17369"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:59:00","slug":"far-north-settlement-could-be-first-place-in-nz-to-entirely-relocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17369","title":{"rendered":"Far North settlement could be first place in NZ to entirely relocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 65 homes were affected with nine left uninhabitable. One of those burnt to the ground a few days later in a blaze blamed on floodwater infiltrating the wiring.<\/p>\n<p>One of the worst affected homes belonged to Bridget Wallace, who had only arrived home after heart surgery a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had seen bigger floods in the past, but never one that was so fast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within 12 minutes, everything was underwater. We just had time to get the vehicles out. Everything was floating. And I mean everything,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve lost everything. Everything that I owned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When RNZ called in, Wallace had finished shovelling away a stinking layer of silt and moved back into her cabin, but her mokopuna were still sleeping in borrowed campervans.<\/p>\n<p>She was philosophical about the damage.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 65 homes were affected with nine left uninhabitable. One of those burnt to the ground a few days later in a blaze blamed on floodwater infiltrating the wiring. One of the worst affected homes belonged to Bridget Wallace, who had only arrived home after heart surgery a day earlier. She said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17370,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}