{"id":52584,"date":"2023-02-14T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-declares-national-state-of-emergency"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:30:19","slug":"cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-declares-national-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52584","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Gabrielle worst storm to hit New Zealand this century, says PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National state of emergency invoked and thousands displaced as storm devastates large parts of North Island and minister says \u2018this is climate change\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/new-zealand-minister-delivers-furious-speech-about-lost-decades-spent-bickering-over-climate-crisis\">Minister gives furious speech about \u2018lost decades spent bickering\u2019 over climate crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2023\/feb\/14\/cyclone-gabrielle-batters-new-zealand-in-pictures\">Cyclone Gabrielle batters New Zealand \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-cyclone-gabrielle-in-new-zealand\">Tell us: have you been affected by Cyclone Gabrielle?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s is in a national state of emergency, as Cyclone Gabrielle batters the country, with floods trapping people on roofs, thousands displaced and landslides destroying homes in what officials have described as an \u201cunprecedented\u201d natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyclone Gabrielle is the most significant weather event New Zealand has seen in this century. The severity and the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation,\u201d the prime minister, Chris Hipkins, said on Tuesday. \u201cWe are still building a picture of the effects of the cyclone as it continues to unfold. But what we do know is the impact is significant and it is widespread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-declares-national-state-of-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National state of emergency invoked and thousands displaced as storm devastates large parts of North Island and minister says \u2018this is climate change\u2019Minister gives furious speech about \u2018lost decades spent bickering\u2019 over climate crisisCyclone Gabriell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,2852,455,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-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\/52584","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52611,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52584\/revisions\/52611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}