{"id":52589,"date":"2023-02-14T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/feb\/14\/cyclone-gabrielle-communities-cut-off-in-new-zealands-north-island-as-national-emergency-declared-live"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:08:25","slug":"cyclone-gabrielle-people-stranded-in-flood-waters-in-new-zealand-as-minister-says-we-must-act-now-on-climate-crisis-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52589","title":{"rendered":"Flooding hampers rescue efforts as North Island residents told power could be out for weeks \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-declares-national-state-of-emergency\">Full report: cyclone devastates North Island<\/a><\/li>\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 delivers 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 national power grid operator has declared a \u201cgrid emergency\u201d and warned that power might not be restored to some for \u201cfor days to weeks, rather than hours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread power cuts in Hawkes Bay and Bay of Plenty happened after a substation flooded during severe rain from Cyclone Gabrielle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/feb\/14\/cyclone-gabrielle-communities-cut-off-in-new-zealands-north-island-as-national-emergency-declared-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closedFull report: cyclone devastates North IslandMinister delivers furious speech about \u2018lost decades spent bickering\u2019 over climate crisisCyclone Gabrielle batters New Zealand \u2013 in picturesTell us: have you been affected by Cyclone Ga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3567,"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":[41,858,2331,2852,65,455,313,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-climate-crisis","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","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\/52589","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\/3567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/52601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}