Vulnerable New Zealand communities are taught to prepare for natural disasters, but national messaging says you may need to survive three days without assistance. The situation for cut-off communities may now be urgent.
"The scale of events that we're having these days means that people need to be able to very much look after themselves, their neighbours, their communities, their businesses and be prepared for any kind of disruption," Dr Orchiston said.In the early hours of Tuesday morning, emergency evacuations were happening and the full force of the system was being felt.
Wairoa and Gisborne were cut off and communities there had been without supplies; Gisborne residents were asked to stop using water as the town's main supply failed. Convoys of trucks carrying essential items such as food, water, medicine and fuel are making their way into affected areas where the roads have reopened, but along the coast cut-off towns have received supplies via sea, with the navy making deliveries.
"So there's really going to be a lot of stress and deprivation happening probably in the next few days as people just run out of food." "We have concerns for the mental wellbeing of our farmers, and as a Rural Support Trust that's one of the main things that we're involved with.The prime minister said authorities were inching closer to being in contact with all isolated communities.
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