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Speaker 1: Boy, the storm and Mangafi. It was short, it was sharp,

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Speaker 1: it was specifically violent. Nine homes and buildings got yellow stickered.

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Speaker 1: Eighty one lost their power after the tornado came through.

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Speaker 1: Two people were seriously injured. One bloke in a motor

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Speaker 1: hub was almost skewed by a flying tree. There were

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Speaker 1: about fifty properties in the in the beach sediment that

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Speaker 1: were damaged when the storm came through early yesterday morning.

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Speaker 1: And of course everybody's asleep and suddenly all hell is

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Speaker 1: breaking loose. So today they're mopping up and we are

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Speaker 1: joined by the KAI Premier, Craig Jepson. Hella, Craig, you've

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Speaker 1: got hearing Andrew hell of the night.

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Speaker 2: A oh man, keep you going on, But excuse the

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Speaker 2: pun that we can now see the wood for the trees.

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Speaker 1: See well by saying it's still going on, it is

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Speaker 1: the weather still a bit dodgy up there.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not the weather. It's the ongoing commitment to

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Speaker 2: trying to get things back to normal. We've had a

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Speaker 2: huge clean up going on and it's going to continue

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Speaker 2: for a while. The it's quite, it's quite, and tell

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Speaker 2: you to see it. You don't realize how how effective

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Speaker 2: that storm. Was it destroying stuff? You know?

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Speaker 1: Yes, short sharp and violence and I really did the

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Speaker 1: blue houses apart the power. Where is the power going

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Speaker 1: to come back on? Because we're hearing that might be delayed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've discovered that there's Tea power poles that have

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Speaker 2: got serious cracks and they've they've had to renew after

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Speaker 2: renewing most of the ones that have fallen over so

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Speaker 2: and also they found that there was a transformer that

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Speaker 2: needed replacing, so that's kind of slowed things down a bit.

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Speaker 2: But no Power will have all but thirty customers restored

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Speaker 2: with power by midnight tonight, and tomorrow they'll clean that up.

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Speaker 2: So I'm expecting all power to be restored sometime tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people displaced, do they all get accommodation?

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Speaker 2: It was everyone that We've got one person who required

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Speaker 2: emergency accommodation and the welfare team organized this. But other

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Speaker 2: than that, I think people will relied on the generosity

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Speaker 2: of friends and family and other people that stepped up.

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Speaker 2: So that's what communities do for each other in these situation.

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Speaker 2: It's been great.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, let's talk about the community,

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Speaker 1: because that's always the designing and defining factor after something

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Speaker 1: was horrific, as is, how are they responding?

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Speaker 2: Look brilliantly. That's what's expected here in the corpriate district.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had that with Gabriel as well. People

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Speaker 2: do they just step up and the generosity is the

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Speaker 2: kiwis you know. One of our problems has actually been

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Speaker 2: to try and hold people back from wanting to help,

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Speaker 2: simply because of the power line situation made it dangerous

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Speaker 2: to be in there.

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Speaker 1: It couldn't have happened in the worse weekend because it's

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Speaker 1: the ok the anniversary and you were pretty full.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. People have been very respectful. We haven't

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Speaker 2: had rubberneckers down there. It's been I think I could

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Speaker 2: say that we've had a great response from our emergency services,

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Speaker 2: particularly our power people North. But you know, for example,

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Speaker 2: today the news zalone response team from Orkan came up.

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Speaker 2: There were about twenty four of them and they linked

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Speaker 2: up with counselors and myself and we went door knocking.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of people there, I would imagine who

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Speaker 2: were very traumatized by the sevent I mean, you imagine

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Speaker 2: it came and it went, It came with a roar,

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Speaker 2: The noise of it, and it was intreadible and then

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Speaker 2: fifteen probably only about fifteen seconds in your house is

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Speaker 2: no more so it was frightening for him.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, it sounds like your community is good. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like you're getting through it, and i'd like to

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking your time out to tell us

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Speaker 1: all what's happening. Craig Jeffson is the mayor of Kuipra

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Speaker 1: among off ay As, a town that's been.

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