Waihau sheep and beef farmer Isabelle Crawshaw says she and others in her rural Hawke's Bay community are still looking at weeks of enforced isolation.
As relief workers look to reconnect her settlement and others like it with the major routes, she says there's still a big need for fuel for the generators everybody is relying on in the wake of the cyclone.
Such is the wait that Crawshaw made the agonising decision to have her two young children airlifted out by helicopter and sent to Wellington until normality is restored.
She spoke to Corin Dann.
