Relatively speaking Gisborne itself got off lightly with just some areas of town affected, up the coast and inland well thats a different story. Communications in Gisborne was restored yesterday with both phones & internet now available, thats not to say some may be still affected, our water supply will take quite sometime to restore the main line from the dam that supplies town water..
As Alan has said news over the past week has been a mission to know what is going on in our district with the media more focused on Hawkes Bay and Auckland, we are only now seeing some of the damage left behind from the cyclone showing how peoples lives have been affected but more so just what the state of the roading network is like.
Coming months once things slowly to return to anything resemblancing normality, will be the inquiries and who will blame who will be the telling factor, forestry companies, goverment (central & local) I beilieve will need to take a good hard look at themselves. Just goes to show how not only this govt but previous govts have ignored NZ infrastructure in favour of appeasing certain groups and failed wasteful policies over the years. All political parties need to stop trying to score polictical points and just get on with working together in the interests of this country and not themsleves.
Disappointing to see govt ministers in my view refusing to acknowledge the criminal behaviour and looking to make excuses for their soft approach to the looting and crime in general.
About all Im going to say on the subject, many of us will have friends & family badly affected by this and our attention should be on them.