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Speaker 2: We are covering the terrifying and horrific slip in Mount

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Speaker 2: Mongonui campground. It is still a recovery effort and many

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Speaker 2: authorities are on the ground, but information is coming through

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Speaker 2: slowly as they attempt to tackle this landslip which is

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Speaker 2: thought to have affected many people. And the single digits

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Speaker 2: is the information we've got at hand. Joining us now

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Speaker 2: is Michelle Craig. She is the owner of the Beach

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Speaker 2: Hut Cafe, which is based in Mount mong Nui. Michelle,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for coming on the program today

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Speaker 2: and you're welcome.

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Speaker 3: How far is the Beach Hut Cafe from the campground

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Speaker 3: and the slip.

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Speaker 4: Michelle, about twenty to thirty meters? Wow.

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Speaker 2: And the mood at the moment, Michelle, after what has

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Speaker 2: happened this morning, How are you feeling? How are others

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Speaker 2: you've spoken to dealing with us today?

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Speaker 4: Everyone's really devastated. MOOE is a really big part of

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Speaker 4: our life and to think that some of it has

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Speaker 4: fallen away and hurt people is really devastating.

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Speaker 3: Where were you when the slip happened. Were you at

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Speaker 3: the cafe, because I've heard it was just a horrific,

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Speaker 3: horrific noise.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was in the cafe and it's quite a noisy,

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Speaker 4: busy little cafe, so I didn't hear anything. But obviously

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Speaker 4: the response from the emergency services was fairly immediate. And yes,

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Speaker 4: that's how we're all notified.

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Speaker 3: So did you say what you were? Twenty or thirty

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Speaker 3: meters away from the slip?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Huh?

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Speaker 3: Are you were you ever in any danger?

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Speaker 4: No? No, Unfortunately there's more than once that many of

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Speaker 4: my customers came and told me about the various on

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Speaker 4: the mount overnight, and this particular slip seems it's enormous.

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Speaker 4: It's really sorry, it's really quite devastating. The impact on

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Speaker 4: everybody is going to be huge. In the hot pools

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Speaker 4: and the poor people who were camping behind the hot pools,

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Speaker 4: the vehicles and everything sliding into the hot pools and

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Speaker 4: the hot pools are destroyed.

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Speaker 3: It must be so hard to deal with. Michelle, thank

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Speaker 3: you so much for talking to us. Have you been

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Speaker 3: having rescue personnel coming in for refreshments and support this morning?

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Speaker 4: So the police have cordoned off all of the area,

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Speaker 4: which means that we had to close, so all of

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Speaker 4: the cafes along the beach front are shut.

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Speaker 2: It's an incredibly beautiful place Mount Mongonui, Michelle, as you well, Noah,

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Speaker 2: most of New Zealand, and incredible beautiful peace people as well.

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Speaker 2: I imagine the next few days there will be a lot

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Speaker 2: of support from residents and your customers and yourself as

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Speaker 2: this recovery carries on.

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Speaker 4: I think the key thing about the mount is especially

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Speaker 4: where this is located, as our amazing Mountain Lifeguard Service.

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Speaker 4: That's where everybody will be supporting the family. Isn't everybody

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Speaker 4: and the Lifeguard Service themselves. It's full of amazing people

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Speaker 4: who just really come together in moments like this and

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Speaker 4: take care of everything. So yeah, that that's one of

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Speaker 4: the great things about our community. We're small, we know everybody,

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Speaker 4: and because of the Lifeguard Service having so many people

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Speaker 4: involved in it, they'll take care of everybody.

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Speaker 3: Now, obviously you don't live at the cafe. You've got

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Speaker 3: a home. Is your home been okay? And you know

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Speaker 3: what are the damage have you seen around the general area, Michelle?

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Speaker 4: So I'm a few kilometers down the road, literally three

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Speaker 4: kilometers down the road, and it was a fairly shocking

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Speaker 4: drive in to work a long marine parade this morning

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Speaker 4: with all of the debris from the Norfolk Pines and

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Speaker 4: everything having blown across. So we woke up to a

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Speaker 4: bit of devastation from the small slips on the mountain,

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Speaker 4: stuff strewn all across the roads. But yeah, unfortunately it

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Speaker 4: carried on slippings.

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Speaker 3: What was this with a surprise to you? We all

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Speaker 3: knew that there was going to be quite a lot

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Speaker 3: of rain. I mean I was just down in the

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Speaker 3: area for the Black Clash very recently and there was

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Speaker 3: talk about rain. But did more of it turn up

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Speaker 3: than you expected or you'd heard about.

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Speaker 4: I think I was surprised. It's not often that rain

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Speaker 4: falls continuously for as many hours as we had, and

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Speaker 4: before I went into work, because I had organized my

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Speaker 4: staff to be aware that if there was chilrun that

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Speaker 4: we would perhaps not open. We closed yesterday because of

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Speaker 4: the rain, but it had cleared by six thirty and

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Speaker 4: then checking apps I'm sure you've checked as well, there

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Speaker 4: was approximately sixteen centimeters of rain, which is an extraordinary amount.

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Speaker 4: It's not common at all, and when lots of local

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Speaker 4: flooding all around the area.

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Speaker 3: I believe it's the most rain in that shorter period

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Speaker 3: ever in recorded history, Michelle, is what we're hearing.

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Speaker 2: It's increased incredibly sad for all involved. Michelle, is there

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Speaker 2: any indication on when you may be able to get

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Speaker 2: the cafe back open at the stage.

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Speaker 4: I think I think it's all dependent on when the

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Speaker 4: emergency services decide that it's safe for people to come

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Speaker 4: into our space, so we'll live it up to them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Michelle, thank you very much for having a chat

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Speaker 2: with us. Our hearts are with you, and you know,

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Speaker 2: the hearts of everybody listening with you guys as well.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful place and your beautiful people, so we

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Speaker 2: wish you all the best in a speedy recovery and

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Speaker 2: hope the situation works out for the best as well.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much. And yeah, if I could, if I

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Speaker 4: could just say, if people can support the surf life

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Speaker 4: saving people in Mount Longonui, then that would be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely thank you. That is Michelle Craig, Beach Hut Cafe owner,

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Speaker 2: which is incredibly close to this devastating, horrific slip that

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Speaker 2: happened at the Mount Monganui campground.

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