{"id":3061,"date":"2023-02-15T05:48:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2023-02-15T05:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:48:34","slug":"cyclone-gabrielle-rural-hawkes-bay-residents-scramble-onto-roofs-to-avoid-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Gabrielle: Rural Hawke’s Bay residents scramble onto roofs to avoid flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hawke’s Bay man who spent hours stuck on his own roof says he has never seen anything like the flooding that hit Hawke’s Bay thanks to Cyclone Gabrielle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After causing havoc in the upper North Island overnight, Gabrielle moved east,\u00a0lashing Tair\u0101whiti and Hawke’s Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kevin McCormack lives on Gilligan Road in a rural settlement called Pakowhai, just north of Hastings. He and his wife were not the only ones who scrambled to safety when water levels started rising at about 8am.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RNZ’s\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>that afternoon from the roof of his single-storey house, he described how he could see his neighbours seeking refuge on top of their two-storey home, as well as others hundreds of metres down the road.<\/p>\n

“We weren’t really happy about it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’re wet, it’s raining. We can see the helicopters working, but they look like they’re working out of Clive and I think they’ve got their hands full\u2026 there’s a lot of people they haven’t got to yet.”<\/p>\n

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A Hawke’s Bay man who spent hours stuck on his own roof says he has never seen anything like the flooding that hit Hawke’s Bay thanks to Cyclone Gabrielle on Tuesday. After causing havoc in the upper North Island overnight, Gabrielle moved east,\u00a0lashing Tair\u0101whiti and Hawke’s Bay. Kevin McCormack lives on Gilligan Road in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061","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\/3061","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=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}