Hundreds of people have turned up at an emergency shelter in Auckland’s M\u0101ngere in desperate need of accommodation, clothing, and food.<\/p>\n
Families have had to spilt up and sleep in their cars because of yellow and red-stickered homes, and many were also in public housing or without insurance.<\/p>\n
There are varying degrees of damage out in the southeastern suburb, with some streets skip bins full of discarded items, and for other households, it was unsalvageable and they had been red-stickered.<\/p>\n
Five days on from Friday’s deluge, Tua helped sift through the sodden remains at his sister’s yellow-stickered home of 39 years at Pito Place.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the sun finally shone to give some reprieve from the rain, but with the heat came the smell of silt and contaminated water.<\/p>\n
Flood waters had washed up mounds of rubbish now strewn across lawns and onto the Pito Place property, adding to the stench.<\/p>\n
“We see a lot of stuff floating around yeah, rubbish, those bins they are not not ours, I don’t know whose bins those are.”<\/p>\n
Some M\u0101ngere streets’ skip bins are full of discarded items after rising water contaminated many household items, and others residents’ items made their way down the road during the flooding in Auckland. <\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Their skip was already full of drenched belongings but that was only from their garage.<\/p>\n They were waiting for it to be collected so that they could begin to clear the saturated mattresses, appliances and belongings inside.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Tua was busy salvaging the few things he could, hosing down kitchen plates and utensils outside.<\/p>\n Moana-nui-\u0101-Kiwa Hub in M\u0101ngere has been set up as an emergency centre for those displaced from their homes, in need of emergency housing, food and clothing.<\/p>\n Volunteers told RNZ demand was growing, with about 400 people a day coming through their doors.<\/p>\n Tables full of blankets and clothing and stacks of shoes filled the hall along with boxes upon boxes of food.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the centre had a visit from Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, full of praise for those helping out.<\/p>\n SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hundreds of people have turned up at an emergency shelter in Auckland’s M\u0101ngere in desperate need of accommodation, clothing, and food. Families have had to spilt up and sleep in their cars because of yellow and red-stickered homes, and many were also in public housing or without insurance. There are varying degrees of damage out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","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\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}