1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the cyclone. Seems to have been and gone. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Eight hundred properties were evacuated across the North Island. Looks 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: like none at this stage were actually flooded. Mark Mitchell, 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: Emergency Management Minister with us this morning. Minister, Good morning, 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, Ryan. So what do we dodge a bullet? 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. We did. Really it was I mean, 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: without a doubt, we've had impacts. It's been a major 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: event for us. So we've had ten local states emergency. 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: We've had we've actually had several thousand houses that were 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: evacuated and you know, in about fourteen thousand without power, 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 2: So we've a it has been a significant event for us. 12 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: But the good news was that everyone was well prepared, 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: well positioned, and so we've been able to sort of 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: keep those impacts to a minimum. 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: Of those houses that were evacuated, did any of them 16 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: actually flood did they need to be? I guess it's 17 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: the question. 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: Yes, some of them, some of them have flooded, but 19 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: a lot of them were precautionary evacuations and that was 20 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: the right thing to do because you know, this this 21 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: the event could have been much worse for us. We 22 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 2: were lucky that it actually started to move out to 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: the east and now it's sort of it's left the 24 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: North Island altogether. It's sort of moving southeast and thankfully 25 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: should pass the west of the Cheddam Islands. 26 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: How many houses flooded, I haven't. 27 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 2: Got an exact number in terms of how many have flooded. 28 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: I know that I'm heading over to a Hope, Fokatani 29 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 2: and Potoqui today. There was an inundation at a Hope, 30 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: so we'll go and check the damage on that. I'll 31 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 2: get in a proper update this morning at about six thirty. 32 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: With all those numbers all right, Minister, I went round 33 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: just in my area in Auckland on Sunday morning and 34 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: most of the businesses they were closed. It was an 35 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: orange warning, you know. I guess the risk is that 36 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: next time there's a warning, the businesses will open because 37 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: nothing happened this time. So what do we do about 38 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: that should they have opened. 39 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: Well, they can use their own danger scents in terms 40 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: of what they do. But one thing I would say 41 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: is that certainly there is no room for complacency at all. 42 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: We deal with this with events. We've been through a 43 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 2: tragedy as a country with you know, with an event 44 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: earlier in the year at at the Mount and also 45 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: Welcome Bay and we lost the farm up around a 46 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 2: Pookey as well. They're dangerous without a doubt, so you know, 47 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: there's no room for complacency. When I became minister there 48 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 2: sort of there was a report that came to me 49 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 2: from Sagerian Matapari. One of the things that one of 50 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 2: the issues that we do face is there's a optimism 51 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: bias sort of sits inside the system and as key 52 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,399 Speaker 2: we we've got a sort of a Shelby Right attitude. 53 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: But these weather events are serious, they impact people in 54 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: they and we can lose people. So, like I said, 55 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 2: there's we're always going to make sure that we take 56 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 2: every step in every measure to keep people in properly safe. 57 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: All right, Marke, appreciate your time this morning. 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