Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle is a tropical cyclone affecting New Zealand and Norfolk Island in February 2023 that has been described as the country's worst weather event in years(It reached a speed of 140 km/h (87 miles) per hour).
New Zealand's prime minister said that Cyclone Gabrielle, which battered much of the North Island, was a weather event not seen "in a generation".
National government Chris Hopkins has declared a state of emergency due to Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand - only the third in New Zealand's history.
About a third of the country's 5 million people live in areas hit by Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand.
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In the early hours of Cyclone Gabrielle declared a national emergency, many people were displaced, and some had to swim from their homes to safety after rivers overflowed and rescue and ambulance teams intervened.
About a quarter of a million people in New Zealand have been without electricity for hours. Fallen trees from Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed homes, landslides swept away others and closed roads.
Cyclone Gabrielle damage was widespread in coastal communities on the north and east coast of the North Island - areas such as hawke's Bay, Coromandel and Northland were among the hardest hit.
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Cutting off communications in one of the cities and declaring a state of extreme emergency due to Cyclone Gabrielle, after one of the rivers overflowed its banks.
On the other hand, and in recent hours, the National Civil Defense authorities in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, said that they could not deal with the extent of the damage in this emergency. Some countries globally, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, have pledged assistance.
A firefighter who responded to the national emergency hours ago has gone missing to Cyclone Gabrielle after being trapped in a landslide in Muriwai, west of Auckland. New Zealand rescue agencies said another firefighter was seriously injured.
An eyewitness, whose family lives in a cliff-front house in Barua Bay on the east coast of the North Island, said she fled with her two young children on Monday night.
Her husband stayed during Cyclone Gabrielle to protect their home. Some dams were destroyed and were still suffering from bad weather on Tuesday.
She also said, "We're trying to do everything we can to protect what we've put our lives to. It's man versus nature at this point."
Local media in New Zealand reported that some residents were delayed responding to the emergency in Hawke's Bay and had to swim through bedroom windows to escape as Cyclone Gabrielle flooded their homes.
The sheer scale of Cyclone Gabrielle includes downed trees, bent light poles and poles, and row after row of flooded homes.
And the New Zealand Defense Force published through national media sensational pictures of officials rescuing a stranded sailor, whose yacht drifted in the sea when the anchor cable broke in strong winds.
We hope everyone is safe
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