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The Latest Breaking News from Cyclone Gabrielle

My Cyclone Diary: amid the cleanup, the true meaning of home and community emerges

In the third instalment in a series of diaries about Cyclone Gabrielle’s aftermath , Anna Rankin talks to those who are still salvaging their lives

The Guardian - AU

Disaster-in-waiting warn south’s farmers

Cyclone Gabrielle’s hammering of Hawkes Bay has ignited fears in Southland of bridges failing and farmland flooding through “mismanagement” of accumulated gravel.

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Why many in Muriwai can't move on

The Detail goes to Muriwai to find out how residents are putting their lives back together after Cyclone Gabrielle.

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New Zealand Cyclone Gabrielle recovery continues slowly

Key roads have been reopened in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle last month, but no one is underestimating the clean-up challenges ahead.

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Central Hawkes Bay finds out what it's made of

Central Hawkes Bay, overwhelmed and angry a month on from Cyclone Gabrielle, is feeling a warm glow from southern cuzzies.

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Preventing a communications blackout in the next big disaster

No landlines, no cellphone coverage, no internet - everything went down in Gabrielle, how do we stop it from happening again?

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Floods, cyclones, thunderstorms: is climate change to blame for New Zealand's summer of extreme weather?

The final months of New Zealand’s summer carried a massive sting, bringing “unprecedented” rainfalls several times over, from widespread flooding in Auckland at the end of January to ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle dumping record rains and causing devastating floods across the east coast of the North Island.

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Scientists say climate change goosed New Zealand storm fury

Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle flooded New Zealand with gigantic amounts of rain last month and scientists say they are sure that climate change is a factor

The Independent UK

Climate change made New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle flooding ‘four times more common’

“With the world getting even warmer, we will see more and more of events like this,” experts warn

The Independent UK

New Zealand to lift state of emergency after Gabrielle

New Zealand is preparing to lift a state of emergency declared after Cyclone Gabrielle caused deadly floods and landslides across the North Island.

The New Daily

New Zealand to lift state of emergency on Tuesday

New Zealand will move out of a state of emergency on Tuesday as the country starts to recover from damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle last month, Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty said on Monday.

Reuters

NZ hikes welfare payments as fruit and veg prices soar

Food prices are on the rise again in New Zealand, particularly for fruit and vegetables, as inflation worsens in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.

AAP

Where are my horses?

Watch: One Hawkes Bay woman's anguish over the horses taken in Cyclone Gabrielle

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My Cyclone Diary: after the flood, the dread that replaces panic

In the second instalment in a series of diaries about Cyclone Gabrielle’s aftermath in New Zealand, Anna Rankin describes the fears, rumours and unexpected effects of a lack of internet

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Cyclone aftermath offers popularity boost to new New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins as poll looms

Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine

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Cyclone Gabrielle's impact on New Zealand's 'fruit bowl'

Cyclone Gabrielle has devastated fruit and vegetable crops in New Zealand's fruit bowl: Hawkes Bay.

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New Zealanders all traced after Cyclone Gabrielle

All New Zealanders have been accounted for after Cyclone Gabrielle and the costs of the disaster are tracking lower than first thought.

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First the floods, then the diseases -- why NZ should brace for outbreaks of spillover infections from animals

When Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand in February, it left a trail of destruction across the North Island. At least 11 people died, and more than 10,000 were displaced. Bridges were washed out (35 in the Hastings district alone), roads closed and communications cut.

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Red zoning isn't a quick and easy solution – I should know

Red-zoning may have offered an immediate solution after the Canterbury earthquakes, but didn't answer the big questions about rebuilding – the questions Cyclone Gabrielle now forces us to address.

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The red and yellow sticker dilemma – how do we balance safety with the desire to return home after a disaster?

Just over a month after the Auckland flood, and three weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle hitting the North Island, the scale of the disasters and the rebuild is clear – as is a sense of being in limbo for those worst affected.

AAP

New Zealand opposition pledges big childcare spend-up

As New Zealand's political contest returns to normal after Cyclone Gabrielle, the opposition has pledged a major childcare spend.

The Guardian - AU

Growers count cost as Cyclone Gabrielle buries New Zealand vineyards in silt

Deadly storm left wine regions of Hawkes Bay and Gisborne covered in mud just before harvest time

The Conversation

Cyclone Gabrielle broke vital communication links when people needed them most – what happened and how do we fix it?

Modern communication systems need two main things: power, and what engineers call “backhaul”, the connections that link cell towers and exchanges to the national network. When Cyclone Gabrielle struck, both were badly compromised.

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'As natural as cheese in a can': Disasters carry human prints

Amid the distress brought by Cyclone Gabrielle, questions begin to form around who is to blame. As is the case in most 'natural' disasters, various corporate and government organisations are left holding smoking guns.

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Farmers in the east 'hitting the wall'

As the adrenaline runs out, Hawkes Bay Federated Farmers president Jim Galloway told political editor Jo Moir farmers are starting to hit the wall.

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