Hastings

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Drone footage shows huge extent of Hawke's Bay flooding (1 News)

Napier and Hastings are cut off after rising rivers burst their banks this morning. In the footage, State Highway 51 can be seen awash with a sea of muddy ...

Power may take several days to be restored in more remote areas after roads were impacted. Do not use dishwashers or washing machines and avoid showering if possible. State Highway 51 between Napier and Clive, and State Highway 50 between Hastings and Napier are now closed.

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'Absolutely traumatised': Woman forced to swim out bedroom ... (Stuff.co.nz)

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. *

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Omahu marae and settlement near Hastings flooded, Napier ... (Newsroom)

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.

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'Completely isolated' Wairoa only has one day's food, Civil Defence ... (RNZ)

Wairoa is completely cut off overnight and only has one day worth of food and enough drinking water for two days, Hawke's Bay Civil Defence says.

"Wairoa only has one day's worth of food, and enough drinking water for two days. "Unison reported outages for 60,000 customers across Hastings, Havelock North, Napier, north along east coast to Tūtira and south to Waimārama. Wairoa is completely cut off overnight and only has one day worth of food and enough drinking water for two days, Hawke's Bay Civil Defence says.

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Roading update: Twin cities Hastings and Napier still isolated from ... (New Zealand Herald)

National highways management agency Waka Kotahi NZTA said Cyclone Gabrielle has caused wide road spread closures around both Hawke's Bay and Gisborne regions ...

”Roading crews are still dealing with extensive flooding in places and hope to be able to reassess the situation as soon as possible. WKNZTA regional system manager Martin Colditz said bridge engineers and roading crews are continuing to assess these road closures and in many cases waiting for floodwaters to recede.”Please avoid all unnecessary travel at the moment and if you do have to drive in the areas which remain open, drive to the conditions,” he said. State Highway 2 between Napier and Hastings, SH5 between Napier and Taupō, SH51 between Napier and Clive, SH51 between Napier and Elwood roads, the Hawke’s Bay Expressway between Napier and Hastings, SH50 between Takapau and Hastings, and SH2 between Napier and Wairoa remained closed.

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