North of Tolaga Bay half a dozen sheep have found a tiny patch of green in a silt-covered paddock and are feeding on what meagre stalks of grass remain.Troy Duncan with son Jack Duncan, 16 start the cleanup.Stop banks collapsed at Ngaruroro River in Omahu, Hawke’s Bay.Floodwaters swept people out of homes and people feared for their lives. Central Park Orchard Pakowhai where RSC workers lived.A Defence Force Hercules lands at Hawke’s Bay airport in Napier, bringing further supplies as personnel and volunteers continue work clearing debris from Cyclone Gabrielle across the region.Floodwaters swept people out of homes and people feared for their lives. Troy Duncan with son Jack Duncan, 16 start the cleanup.Dog prints in the silt at Riverside Motor Lodge.Owner of Wairoa’s Riverside Motor Lodge, Sharron Solomon.Damage to the Pine Valley Orchard which is on the banks of the Nuhaka River, between Gisbone and Wairoa.Matapiro Road where a bridge collapsed and where a victim was thought to have been killed.Floodwaters swept people out of homes and people feared for their lives.Troy Duncan with son Jack Duncan, 16 start the cleanup at their property after the floodwaters subsided.A small client of Huha rescue.Firefighter Nicky Bates at Huha rescue in Hawke’s Bay Racecourse. Many residents have been reunited with their pets in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, and some are still left to be looked after due to residents being displaced.Huha volunteer Delwyn Monk and Huha volunteer and vet Natalie Lloyd hand feed kittens. They have slept next to the kittens during the night to keep a close eye on them.Floodwaters swept people out of homes and animals left stranded. Huha rescue have set up at Hawke’s Bay Racecourse where people have brought in flooded animals to be rescued.Scenes of devastation after Cyclone Gabrielle struck Hawke’s Bay suggest that climate change will be centre of voters’ concerns come election day in October.Silt-filled glasses as Troy Duncan with son Jack Duncan, 16, begin the clean up of their house.A group of local volunteers help clear a vineyard Eskdale.Locals lined the fence line above the Napier Port and parts of the waterfront to watch the arrival of the eagerly anticipated HMNZS Canterbury late Tuesday afternoon, in the latest step of the response to Cyclone Gabrielle.Silted floodwaters flow out into the sea in Hawke's Bay.Silt flows out from the floodwaters in Hawke's Bay.Contracting diggers work into the evening to sift through silt and move debris in Eskdale, Hawke’s Bay.Cyclone Gabrielle left deep silt through properties in Hawke’s Bay.The Hikuwai River is still swirling brown, its banks gouged by torrents of water the likes of which locals repeatedly tell you they have never before seen.Many properties in Eskdale are surrounded by silt and little else after the cyclone tore through the area.
