The New Zealand government has declared a National State of Emergency for just the third time in history as Cyclone Gabrielle causes wide spread flooding, landslides and huge ocean swells across the North Island.
Kieran McAnulty, the minister for Emergency Management, said in a statement on Tuesday that widespread damage caused by this cyclone means a National declaration was needed to support those impacted.
"This is an unprecedented weather event that is having major impacts across much of the North Island," said McAnulty. A National State of Emergency has only been declared on two previous occasions - following the 6.3 quake in Christchurch in 2011 and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gabrielle had been sitting 100 km northeast of Auckland over some small islands but was now moving southwest. Meterological organisation MetService said the worst of the rain had passed for Auckland but it will start to have more of an impact further south.
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