{"id":11897,"date":"2019-12-08T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/08\/new-zealand-storms-tornado-warning-issued-as-floods-cut-off-towns"},"modified":"2019-12-08T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T07:50:49","slug":"new-zealand-storms-tornado-warning-issued-as-floods-cut-off-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11897","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand storms: 1,000 foreign tourists stranded as floods cut off towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Island faces tornado risk after landslides and flooding wreak havoc in the south<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/au\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_EDITORIAL_LINK%22%2C%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22AUS_EDITORIAL%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22All-blacks_pool_games%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22k29tioyrpu8gase2vrly%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2F2019%2Foct%2F26%2Fnew-zealand-england-steve-hansen-kieran-read-rugby-world-cup-semi-final%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=AUS_EDITORIAL\">Please help us by supporting our independent journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand has been hit by a weekend of severe storms, with landslides and flooding in the South Island cutting off towns and trapping an estimated 1,000 foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Most are stuck on the west coast in the towns of Fox Glacier and Franz Josef, according to the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, and some have been forced to sleep in their cars, and are said to be scared and tired.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/08\/new-zealand-storms-tornado-warning-issued-as-floods-cut-off-towns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Island faces tornado risk after landslides and flooding wreak havoc in the southWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismNew Zealand has been hit by a weekend of severe storms, with land&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,157,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}