Water and electricity supplies slowly returned to cyclone-struck New Zealand cities Saturday, as the death toll from the disaster rose to nine.
An aerial view shows damage to a house and surrounding vines caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in the Esk Valley near Napier on 18 February, 2023. New Zealand is under a national state of emergency after Cyclone Gabrielle bore down on its northern coast on February 12. STR / AFP
Roger Ball, acting director of the National Emergency Management Agency, said water had been restored to the east-coast city of Gisborne and that some residents in the neighbouring city of Napier now had power. Entire communities remain cut off, major highways are closed and telecommunications networks are patchy.“This is a massive event for New Zealand, certainly the biggest weather event that I’ve seen,” said Ball.Authorities report that about 1,500 people are still in emergency shelters, mostly in the hard-hit Hawke’s Bay region.
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