{"id":2192,"date":"2023-01-13T05:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2023-01-13T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:38:07","slug":"farmers-are-almost-at-their-wits-end-cyclone-recovery-likely-to-be-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Farmers are almost at their wits&#8217; end&#8217; &#8211; Cyclone recovery likely to be slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cleanup from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/482219\/live-flooding-power-outages-and-road-closures-in-tairawhiti-after-cyclone-hale\">Cyclone Hale<\/a>\u00a0is only just beginning &#8211; with the weather system causing damage from Northland and Coromandel on to Tair\u0101whiti, and down the North Island as far as Wairarapa.<\/p>\n<p>The East Coast is hardest hit, with communities still cut off in Tair\u0101whiti, and local authorities working to find ways to get supplies to them.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 35 is closed north of Gisborne between Tolaga Bay and Ruatoria, and the Gladstone Road Bridge in the city centre will be closed overnight tonight and tomorrow as debris is cleared from under the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency remains in place in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Waka Kotahi National Journey Manager Helen Harris said in a statement today that Cyclone Hale is testing everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The welfare of people living near SH35 in particular, is our key concern. We understand how critical this highway is for getting food and supplies to wh\u0101nau and towns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cleanup from\u00a0Cyclone Hale\u00a0is only just beginning &#8211; with the weather system causing damage from Northland and Coromandel on to Tair\u0101whiti, and down the North Island as far as Wairarapa. The East Coast is hardest hit, with communities still cut off in Tair\u0101whiti, and local authorities working to find ways to get supplies to them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}