{"id":52774,"date":"2023-02-20T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/after-cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-wonders-how-and-if-to-rebuild"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:11:03","slug":"after-cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-wonders-how-and-if-to-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52774","title":{"rendered":"After Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand wonders how \u2013 and if \u2013 to rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As people dig their houses from the silt, the country faces questions over where to rebuild, as the climate crisis heralds more and more extreme weather<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tsunami from the hills. It was bigger than the tides. The noise \u2013 it was like Huka Falls.\u201d Rikki Reed gazes at the wall for a moment, and you get the impression he can still hear the sound of water flooding into Esk Valley. His five-year-old son Parker sits nearby, quietly playing.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was part of a night-time road crew that came in to help when Cyclone Gabrielle struck \u2013 blocking off parts of the state highway, where huge trees had fallen. At around midnight, as waters started rising fast, they began evacuating people \u2013 but then he realised the truck he was in was stranded. \u201cThere were waves over the highway. The rapids were on both sides,\u201d he says. He saw the road itself start to ripple, as the water forced its way underneath the asphalt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/after-cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-wonders-how-and-if-to-rebuild\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people dig their houses from the silt, the country faces questions over where to rebuild, as the climate crisis heralds more and more extreme weather\u201cIt was a tsunami from the hills. It was bigger than the tides. The noise \u2013 it was like Huka Falls.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3590,"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":[41,2852,455,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774","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\/3590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions\/52775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}