Send more Defence Force personnel - that's that the plea from Hawke's Bay Fruit growers whose crops and livelihoods have been decimated by floodwaters.
Some are trying to salvage fruit - still picking apples today - but roads are unreliable and cool stores need power for refrigeration.
Some orchards are literally knee deep in silt. They need heavy machinery to dig it out before it sets like concrete.
Worst-hit areas include the Esk and Dartmoor valleys and Fernhill.
President of the Hawke's Bay Fruit Growers Association Brydon Nisbet still cannot get to his own apple orchard and says some farmers have lost their life's work.
