26 Jun 2024

Residents in Haumonana evacuate homes

From Checkpoint, 5:14 pm on 26 June 2024

For many people living in Gisborne and Hawkes Bay, the threat of flooding overnight brought back awful memories from Cyclone Gabrielle. While in the Hawkes Bay settlement of Haumoana, dozens of people left their homes in the dark for an evacaution centre as the wind and rain set in, Jimmy Ellingham reports.