New Zealand faces a months-long effort to fix damaged roads, homes, and bridges
The storm is now fading into the South Pacific, allowing rescue teams to finally reach regions cut off for days by torrential rain and gale-force winds.
The disaster has severed roads, collapsed houses and cut power across a swathe of New Zealand’s North Island, which is home to more than three-quarters of the country’s five million residents. They included a woman who was killed when her house was crushed by a landslip in Hawke’s Bay and a victim believed to be a volunteer firefighter trapped by a collapsing home.He hailed the “phenomenal” effort of rescue workers and military personnel who plucked “roughly 300 people from rooftops” in Hawke’s Bay.He said a group of 60 people were rescued from one large building marooned by floodwaters.
Cyclone Gabrielle formed off the northeastern coast of Australia in the Coral Sea on 8 February before barrelling across the South Pacific.
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