{"id":52628,"date":"2023-02-15T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/how-can-we-get-out-of-here-survivors-of-cyclone-gabrielle-describe-sense-of-loss-and-despair"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:43:10","slug":"how-can-we-get-out-of-here-survivors-of-cyclone-gabrielle-describe-sense-of-loss-and-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52628","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How can we get out of here?\u2019: survivors of Cyclone Gabrielle describe sense of loss and despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand reels from impact of massive storm, with many left homeless and others cut off from food supplies, power and communications<\/p>\n<p>In the New Zealand city of Napier, black army helicopters hum overhead. Leonard Fleming has damp clothes, no food and faces a third night sleeping in his car with his dogs Beadle and Mika. Fleming knows he has likely lost everything he left behind when he fled his home in nearby Eskdale, Hawke\u2019s Bay, ahead of Cyclone Gabrielle on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never had my house burned to the ground but I imagine it\u2019s the same thing,\u201d he tells the Guardian over a crackling phone line; service to the area is recently restored but coverage is intermittent. \u201cAll you can do is run away and I started thinking this morning about all the stuff that I\u2019ve lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/how-can-we-get-out-of-here-survivors-of-cyclone-gabrielle-describe-sense-of-loss-and-despair\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand reels from impact of massive storm, with many left homeless and others cut off from food supplies, power and communicationsIn the New Zealand city of Napier, black army helicopters hum overhead. Leonard Fleming has damp clothes, no food and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,2852,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628\/revisions\/52629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}