Cyclone Gabrielle: counting the costs, six months on

Cyclone Gabrielle: counting the costs, six months on
An aerial shot of Pan Pac's Whirinaki site taken on Feb 19. (Image: Supplied)
Riley Kennedy
Cyclone Gabrielle tore through the North Island in February. It devastated businesses, brought down critical infrastructure and claimed lives. More than six months on, BusinessDesk travelled to the region to see how the clean-up – worth billions of dollars – was getting on.Businesses were not bothered at first.The region sort of “semi-took on” weather warnings about the impending arrival of Cyclone Gabrielle in early February.In part, as Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce chief executive Karla Lee explained, beca...

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