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PM Chris Hipkins speaks to media during a visit to flood-stricken Gisborne on Thursday, February 16. It was the speed that got them. No sooner had they left ...

"I got them out of the house and we rushed up the hill as quick as we could. We might be able to salvage a few things but the whole place smells like sewage," Wikote said. Patrick Roberts got woken up and told to register his whanau at the school. "There wasn't any water when we got out of the house, then the street was a river. [Prime Minister Chris Hipkins ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300808339/cyclone-gabrielle-live-updates-flooding-devastation-and-fears-for-those-unaccounted-for)and his entourage visited these people on Thursday, many of whom were now living at the local school. *