"It would have been about 11 before I lost cell service." Photo: NZDF / suppliedĪt no stage did emergency services call her back to say they were not coming, she said. Read more: Cyclone Gabrielle death toll: who are the victimsįloodwaters rushed through parts of Napier and many Hawke's Bay communities during Cyclone Gabrielle. And then all of a sudden it was a torrent. "When I looked outside it was already shin-height. The online advice, that it was not necessary to evacuate, looked shaky in the pitch dark. The rain that had worried them at 8pm, when they checked the Civil Defence advisory, had kept up. "If I hadn't got up to feed the baby, I would never have known how bad it was." Hannah, who withheld her surname, had climbed with her nine-month-old baby, her three-year-old, a two and a seven-year-old, her partner and five other adults onto the roof. "And then she rung me about 1.30pm, and I was like, 'Oh my god, she's alive!' " On a steel roof, in the rain "So I spent all of Tuesday morning crying.
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