Mandatory evacuations have been ordered along part of the eastern Bay of Plenty coastline, with the defence force helping evacuate a campground near \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n
As many as 400 properties are being asked to evacuate in the \u014cp\u014dtiki District between Waiotahe and East Cape, with another 100 evacuations ordered in the Whakat\u0101ne District, including at \u014chope Beach.<\/p>\n
People staying at the Tirohanga Campground are being moved to \u014cp\u014dtiki College.<\/p>\n
\u014cp\u014dtiki District Council incident controller, Gerard McCormack, told RNZ the worst of the cyclone was due to hit at about the same time as high tide, which could cause serious inundation in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n
“It’s basically all across our coastline, it covers quite a large area,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got colleagues from the army, FENZ, and our iwi response units assisting us with door knocking at the moment, and the police will be assisting us later on as required.”<\/p>\n
McCormack said there was a good chance the town could become cut off if there’s another slip on State Highway 2.<\/p>\n
“We’re expecting large sea swells, inundation. The rain is coming now … we’re discouraging people from going on the roads due to debris from the sea, also potential for slips and trees, and debris and things like that.”<\/p>\n
Te Araroa Civil Defence is also advising residents of Onepoto in the Gisborne region to evacuate and residents in Hikuwai Tolaga Bay and Te Arai Manutuke have also been advised to evacuate with police and Fire and Emergency assisting.<\/p>\n
North in Whang\u0101rei, those in the city centre have been told to evacuate as flooding hits.<\/p>\n
States of emergency have been declared in Northland, Auckland, Thames-Coromandel, Waikato, Hauraki, Whakat\u0101ne, \u014cp\u014dtiki and Tair\u0101whiti as Cyclone Gabrielle starts to wreak havoc.<\/p>\n
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