{"id":9235,"date":"2024-02-13T05:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2024-02-13T05:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:19:39","slug":"the-very-very-best-of-new-zealand-honoured-for-cyclone-gabrielle-rescue-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9235","title":{"rendered":"‘The very, very best of New Zealand’ honoured for Cyclone Gabrielle rescue and recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, the nation heard countless stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things.<\/p>\n

Daring rescues, when people were plucked from rooftops as floodwaters threatened. Taking in strangers with nowhere else to go for days, weeks or months. Shovelling silt, fixing up homes, cooking kai. Seeing Hawke’s Bay through the toughest of times.<\/p>\n

Ahead of this week’s anniversary, hundreds of those ordinary people were invited by local councils to the Tomoana Showgrounds in Hastings on Sunday for an Appreciation Day.<\/p>\n

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Each attendee was given a native seedling as a thank you for their efforts during the cyclone response and recovery.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Lauren Crimp<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dignitaries – including the mayors of Hastings and Napier, the regional council chair, emergency management minister Mark Mitchell and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon – heaped praise on them all.<\/p>\n

“Last year we saw some real challenges in this region,” Luxon told the crowd. “But man, we saw the very, very best of New Zealand as well, and that’s what we’re here to celebrate and to recognise today.”<\/p>\n

Over a sausage and a beer, attendees reflected on the day that was, and the year that’s been since.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, the nation heard countless stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Daring rescues, when people were plucked from rooftops as floodwaters threatened. Taking in strangers with nowhere else to go for days, weeks or months. Shovelling silt, fixing up homes, cooking kai. Seeing Hawke’s Bay through the toughest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","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\/9235","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=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}