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Ben Green: Gisborne Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group Manager on the aftermath of this week's severe weather · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: But let's see where we're at with the state of emergency.
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  Speaker 1: As of last night, at least fifteen hundred properties didn't
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  Speaker 1: have power still on the East coast. Of course, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Green Civil Events Emergency Management Group manager in Gisbon is
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  Speaker 1: where there's been morning to you. Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: read from around the region or you justin Gisbon.
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  Speaker 2: Just well, we cover the whole region. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: see surprising, you know, as pretty wild what spell whether
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  Speaker 2: we had come in the other night, I mean, as
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  Speaker 2: the wind really was probably the really real thing that
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  Speaker 2: typified the difference between the other events. But yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we did have the river levels that credit the evacuations
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of the catchments. But surprisingly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't got the physical damage that we've probably thought
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  Speaker 2: it'd be dealing with or coming through East good but certainly,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the challenge we with the wind is obviously
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  Speaker 2: the power lines and just a signif got a number
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  Speaker 2: of trees down across the roads and networks.
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  Speaker 1: So basically what you're dealing with, you're dealing with a
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  Speaker 1: clean up today now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you know we had obviously just before this event,
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  Speaker 2: the weather of the weekend and the city and we
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  Speaker 2: need to get to the city in some of the greast strife.
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  Speaker 2: That's seven percent of our population is in one area.
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  Speaker 2: So the sewer and the wastewater system was already fully
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  Speaker 2: charged before we went into the let's be with event,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really weird. You have surd issues backing up
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  Speaker 2: and some areas of schools can operate and it just
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  Speaker 2: needs time, simple whether to help that sort of relieve
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  Speaker 2: the pressure from the wastewater in that serio system.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, forecast they're saying some showers that the weather's largely through.
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  Speaker 1: Is that fair or not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were back. I would like to think some
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  Speaker 2: of the great normal winter weather our rivers and you
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  Speaker 2: can see some of our cameras there. It's just the
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  Speaker 2: volume is its intensity of the short time frames, and
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  Speaker 2: it's really we start seeing things start falling apart quite quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. All right, Ben, I'm glad to have caught up
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  Speaker 1: with you. Appreciate it very much. Being Green for more
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