{"id":3428,"date":"2023-02-28T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2023-02-28T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:41:13","slug":"esk-valley-resident-left-wondering-why-evacuation-warning-never-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3428","title":{"rendered":"Esk Valley resident left wondering why evacuation warning never came"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions remain for Esk Valley locals about the extent of warnings when\u00a0Cyclone Gabrielle hit two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daryl Gilbert put his aunt and sister in a boat tethered to the roof where the rest of his wh\u0101nau waited for hours above floodwaters beside State Highway 5 on 14 February.<\/p>\n

Civil Defence gave some locals a warning, but not them, he said.<\/p>\n

“We asked them, ‘How come you didn’t come warn us?’ ‘Cause they warned a couple of houses around here.<\/p>\n

“They just assumed that we were already gone. But as you would’ve seen, all our cars were still here.”<\/p>\n

Gilbert hoped there would be an investigation.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit gutting,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hawke’s Bay Emergency Management said it did not have the capacity to look into it now, but would do a review later.<\/p>\n

“The people who were working during the early stages of the response are off-shift,” it said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The team was “still fully focused on the response to Cyclone Gabrielle”.<\/p>\n

“Our practice is to carry out a post-event review of all emergency responses.”<\/p>\n

Gilbert said he understood gates across the highway inland were closed late that night, and some people got warned around 1am.<\/p>\n

Emergency Management said Waka Kotahi had advised it the gates on SH5 were not closed that night.<\/p>\n

Gilbert’s household of seven got themselves up at 2.30am, but by then it was too late.<\/p>\n

“Our cars were pretty much engulfed.”<\/p>\n

They cut a hole in the upper wall of the shed to get out their boat, though it was not big enough to take all of them. Large logs and trees floated by.<\/p>\n

“I was worried the house was gonna roll cos, as you can see, that big tree over there, that was coming straight for us … then a water tank hit the other side of the house.”<\/p>\n

A lifesaving boat came by midmorning, though it was three young men in a boat who eventually rescued them.<\/p>\n

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Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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