{"id":52741,"date":"2023-02-19T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/everyones-pretty-gutted-new-zealanders-struggle-to-pick-up-pieces-after-cyclone-gabrielle"},"modified":"2023-02-19T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:18:40","slug":"everyones-pretty-gutted-new-zealanders-struggle-to-pick-up-pieces-after-cyclone-gabrielle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52741","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone\u2019s pretty gutted\u2019: New Zealanders struggle to pick up pieces after Cyclone Gabrielle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With emergency services stretched, residents are banding together to clean up and guard against looters \u2013 and say they are seeing humanity\u2019s best and worst<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere, strewn across the valleys and plains, there are apples. Red spheres line the roads and stud the drying mud. They are strung like beads on the fences, impaled on the barbed wire. As the flood waters rose, people waded through water up to the waists, then shoulders \u2013 and then swam through the torrent, past royal gala and Braeburn. As the river rose through Max Robertson\u2019s home, he pushed his father and two dogs on to a floating table, and tried to crack a joke: \u201cI said: look Dad, we can go apple bobbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When rivers burst their banks and sent Cyclone Gabrielle\u2019s flood waters sweeping through Hawke\u2019s Bay, they washed over hundreds of hectares of orchards, stripping the fruit from the trees and propelling it across the valleys.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/19\/everyones-pretty-gutted-new-zealanders-struggle-to-pick-up-pieces-after-cyclone-gabrielle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With emergency services stretched, residents are banding together to clean up and guard against looters \u2013 and say they are seeing humanity\u2019s best and worstEverywhere, strewn across the valleys and plains, there are apples. Red spheres line the roads an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"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-52741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52741","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\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52741\/revisions\/52755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}