State of Emergency

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Ferg

Quote from: Hectorplains on Dec 04, 2023, 08:22 PM$40k for a repeat offence of no helmet, if anyone's asking...

Hopefully you don't know this from first hand experience?  ;D

Ferg

Somewhat ironically I see Hectorplains started this thread wishing others well, and your region was smashed.  Hopefully you are back to normality now?

So here we are coming up to 10 months after cyclone Gabrielle.  I can report that some areas in Hawkes Bay are still like a warzone.  I have no interest in being a disaster tourist so have not seen all the impacted areas, but Pakowhai and Esk Valley are still waiting....waiting for decisions, waiting for the clean up and still waiting for silt to be removed.  I recently visited a business that had not long reopened after being under a metre of water - they must have been doing it tough. Meanwhile life goes on for most of us with hardly a thought as to the plight of those impacted.  I imagine the same delays are happening in other areas such as Wairoa, Gisborne and in Muriwai west of Auckland (to name just 3).

Maybe some of those people protesting tomorrow about something that has not yet happened can lend a hand if they have so much free time....

Hectorplains

Quote from: Ferg on Dec 04, 2023, 09:32 PMSomewhat ironically I see Hectorplains started this thread wishing others well, and your region was smashed.  Hopefully you are back to normality now?

So here we are coming up to 10 months after cyclone Gabrielle.  I can report that some areas in Hawkes Bay are still like a warzone.  I have no interest in being a disaster tourist so have not seen all the impacted areas, but Pakowhai and Esk Valley are still waiting....waiting for decisions, waiting for the clean up and still waiting for silt to be removed.  I recently visited a business that had not long reopened after being under a metre of water - they must have been doing it tough. Meanwhile life goes on for most of us with hardly a thought as to the plight of those impacted.  I imagine the same delays are happening in other areas such as Wairoa, Gisborne and in Muriwai west of Auckland (to name just 3).

Maybe some of those people protesting tomorrow about something that has not yet happened can lend a hand if they have so much free time....


'East Coast' and 'normal' are two terms not much used together ever! I came up here after 10 years of earthquakes and fighting EQC, only to be greeted by three cyclones.  I'm scared to move again unless to the next stop I bring a plague of locusts, horses eating each other or some other biblical atrocity.   

I made the drive down to Hastings two weeks ago.  There's no time to gaze on the views as the road requires constant attention.  But it does indeed resemble a warzone.  Timely recovery from natural disaster just isn't a Kiwi thing. Maybe Mr Seymour and his Red Tape Cutting ministry could cut their teeth on this issue?




Ferg

Quote from: Hectorplains on Dec 04, 2023, 09:48 PM'East Coast' and 'normal' are two terms not much used together ever! I came up here after 10 years of earthquakes and fighting EQC, only to be greeted by three cyclones.  I'm scared to move again unless to the next stop I bring a plague of locusts, horses eating each other or some other biblical atrocity.

Your horse comment made me laugh.  Very funny.  Please don't move to Hawkes Bay....we don't need your bad luck adding to the current woes.  ;D  But seriously, sorry to hear that.  You have chosen a nice part of the country....your very own KFC down the road....Kai for Coasties.

Quote from: Hectorplains on Dec 04, 2023, 09:48 PMI made the drive down to Hastings two weeks ago.  There's no time to gaze on the views as the road requires constant attention.  But it does indeed resemble a warzone.  Timely recovery from natural disaster just isn't a Kiwi thing. Maybe Mr Seymour and his Red Tape Cutting ministry could cut their teeth on this issue?

Maybe time for him to put his money where his mouth is.  As someone famous once said: "make it so".