A Hawkes Bay man hasn't let Cyclone Gabrielle put him off from buying a local store in a hard hit rural area.
Jaycen Maxwell took the plunge in Puketapu taking on the business within days of the massive storm.
Families there are still cut off with no running water and sharing generators for power. Some parts are still only accessible by helicopter or boat after the Dartmoor bridge and others were wiped out.
Tess Brunton is there.
