🔴 New Zealand declares state of emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle hits
“Certainly, the reports that we’ve had is that it’s the most extreme weather event that we’ve experienced in a very long time,” Mr Hipkins said in Wellington. “In the fullness of time, we’ll know how it compares with Cyclone Bola,” he said while referring to the costly cyclone in 1988.
Communities have been left isolated by the flooding, as a weather station in the Hawke’s Bay and Napier region recorded three times more rain overnight than usually falls for the entire month of February, MetService meteorologist Lewis Ferris said., with the PM saying it is to principals’ discretion when in-person classes will resume.stranded thousands of people and while Air New Zealand restarted some flights in and out of Auckland, many routes remained disrupted.
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