Hawke's Bay

Adrianne Mason, whose daughter had to swim to safety as their new Hawke's Bay house was swamped, says people have no idea how bad the flooding is.

SH51 between Napier and Clive is also closed. The issue is causing toilets to back up. Hawke's Bay Regional Council has issued an urgent notice for residents to reduce water use as much as possible. It was not yet known when it would be restored. Part of the Brookfields Bridge in Pakowhai has also been washed away. Trees and branches had been brought down around the city by the wind. The rest of us need to be resilient; looking after ourselves, our families and our neighbours.” Central Hawke’s Bay mayor Alex Walker said more bands of heavy rain were expected overnight Tuesday so people who had been evacuated should stay away from their homes. About 100 homes in the Esk Valley were evacuated. In Central Hawke’s Bay, the Waipawa River and Tukituki Rivers topped their banks. State Highway 5 between Napier to Taupō is also closed. *

Cyclone Gabrielle is the most significant weather event New Zealand has seen this century, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says, as authorities work to rescue ...

restoring radio and cellular contact with our firefighters." "We are advising that the community should be prepared to be without power for days to weeks, rather than hours." "Until we are able to gain access to the substation, we will not have a clear picture of how long the region will be without power," Transpower said. "We have people trapped on roofs and we are still in the process of … Authorities said they were yet to restore communications to crews in the Hawke's Bay region and the power grid operator warned the community should be prepared to go without electricity "for days or weeks, not hours". "The severity and breadth of the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation," Mr Hipkins said on Tuesday.

Hawkes Bay is suffering widespread flooding and destruction, with Napier completely cut off and without any way for residents to reach Hastings Hospital for ...

"Presumably they got picked up by the rescue people because other people got picked up. I rang to my cousins about 8am because I've got a house there and they're living in it. I don't know how they would have got out because they couldn't go the Taradale way because that's all washed out." "I'm just freaking out because I've got two cousins there who I spoke to this morning. I've just got the photo through family, through family, through family. It's flowed over the stopbank but it's also come from further upstream. But the marae is under water and the whole papakainga. With cars being turned away by police from entering the Napier-Hastings expressway there is no access to Hastings from Napier at all. After walking 15 minutes to the only open store they discovered it had already shut for the day. We have no communication - even if you’re just repeating the same messages, it’s something." Newsroom is also receiving reports of horses being swept away. Newsroom knows of at least one resident who has lost their home to flooding.

People have been rescued, hundreds of homes have been evacuated, thousands could be without power for at least several days and major highways and bridges have ...

We took the dog and the cats, we had to leave our car it was under water. There was no sign of any flooding of any sort in the main precinct of Emerson St, which has been flooded in the past, notably in the Napier Flood on November 9, 2020. [https://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/services/roads-and-streets/road-works/](https://www.hastingsdc.govt.nz/services/roads-and-streets/road-works/) For state highway road information visit the NZTA website. My place was flooding and I wasn’t allowed to go back in for them.” “The rest of us need to be resilient, looking after ourselves, our families and our neighbours.” After a couple of falls and successful attempts, they left and were quickly talked to by Police. “I pulled out all my clothes to try and keep them warm,” she said. on Tuesday, the streets were empty, with almost every shop closed, mainly because staff were unable to get to work. “It was a firefighter. The town water supply has failed due to flooding and the community are relying on their emergency supplies. Hundreds of cars were lined up to as they waited to hear more news. With no power or phones the only communication was via satellite phone.

The plea comes as the Wairoa River burst its banks and flooded an area that is home to half the town's population.

The rest of us need to be resilient; looking after ourselves, our families and our neighbours. Flood water is often contaminated and can make you sick. The Ngaruroro River overtopped its banks earlier today, resulting in the evacuation of Ōmahu. Waka Kotahi has closed the bridges on SH2 due to safety concerns. If you see rising water do not wait for official warnings. Act quickly if you see rising water. - People should stay up to date with the forecasts from MetService and continue to follow the advice of Civil Defence and emergency services. - A national state of emergency gives the national controller legal authority to apply further resources across the country and set priorities in support of a national level response. Phone and electricity was cut off during much of the day and the District Council in Taupō sent in a chopper to see how the rural community has fared. The local emergency management group said Hawke's Bay was reeling from the effect of Cyclone Gabrielle and it was grappling to gain a full understanding of the situation. Meanwhile, Hawke's Bay Civil Defence said it could not cope with the scale of damage in the region and has asked for help from the National Emergency Management Agency. It said the town was cut off by a damaged bridge to the south and impassable roads to the north.

The outage is a result of flooding to the Redclyffe substation following extreme weather from Cyclone Gabrielle. The Unison and Eastland networks that ...

While we had a brief outage overnight in Taranaki, we were able to quickly restore power there. We will not take actions to bring power back before it is safe for them to do so. We are working closely with Unison and Eastland to understand the situation and develop a restoration plan to ensure power is returned as quickly as possible.

There has been no word from the Gisborne mayor, council, or fire crews, while Transpower declared a “grid emergency” as electricity supply fails.

[Dave van Zwananberg](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300806785/cyclone-gabrielle-hero-firefighter-caught-in-muriwai-slip-a-vet-pilot-and-father-of-two)– also a vet, pilot and father of two young children, [is missing in Muriwai after a landslide](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131219456/one-firefighter-missing-one-critically-injured-in-landslide-at-aucklands-muriwai). [Here is a regional breakdown](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300806160/cyclone-gabrielle-strikes-north-island-regional-breakdown)for how Cyclone Gabrielle is impacting different areas of NZ. [Heavy rain red warnings](https://www.metservice.com/warnings/home?t=20221004190939.000)are in place for the Northland and Hawke's Bay, with red strong wind warnings also for Northland, Coromandel and Taranaki. Transpower declared a grid emergency following the failure of Redclyffe substation on Tuesday and soon after advised that people should be prepared to be without power for “days to weeks, rather than hours”. [State of emergency in Tairāwhiti, Cyclone Gabrielle forces evacuations, road closures](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131209129/state-of-emergency-in-tairwhiti-cyclone-gabrielle-forces-evacuations-road-closures?rm=a) [Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay are mostly without phone and internet communication](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131220400/gisborne-a-communications-dead-zone-as-cyclone-gabrielle-hits)apart from via satellite. Power has been restored to some parts of Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne following a dire warning that customers in the region should be prepared to be without power for “days or weeks”. [225,000 people across the country](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300806079/live-state-of-national-emergency-declared-as-cyclone-gabrielle-smashes-nz) were without power. [need to have ready in a 3-day emergency kit](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300803468/cyclone-gabrielle-this-is-what-you-need-in-your-three-days-of-emergency-supplies). [path of the storm in detail here](https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-202.01,-23.23,885). There are wind and rain warnings for the rest of the North Island. [state of emergency has been declared](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300806430/cyclone-gabrielle-national-state-of-emergency-declared).