Napier floods: The Mataruahou slip that hasn t been touched in six months
10 May, 2021 08:11 PM
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Napier flooding: Deluge the second wettest day on record in 150 years. Video Paul Taylor / Tori Spellar / Eve Lemm / Sam Kluts
Napier flooding: Deluge the second wettest day on record in 150 years. Video Paul Taylor / Tori Spellar / Eve Lemm / Sam Kluts
RNZ
By Tom Kitchin of RNZ
More than 20 families remain without a home after the horrific floods in Napier six months ago.
Patience is wearing thin for some.
From the front of the street Paul Matthews house on Mataruahou (Napier Hill) looks normal but from the back, it is a wreck.
Patience is wearing thin for some.
The sleepout at Paul Matthew s home on Mataruahou (Napier Hill) still remains damaged as with the rest of his home, six months after the floods. Furniture has not been moved since the day.
Photo: RNZ / Tom Kitchin
From the front of the street Paul Matthews house on Mataruahou (Napier Hill) looks absolutely normal but from the back, it is a wreck.
A slip on 9 November last year, the day of the floods, significantly damaged his home. It s taken out the wash house, the bathroom, the kitchen, the outside storage shed and the outside tool shed and all the garden and retaining walls and everything that were down here is under six feet of mud, he said.
Napier floods: The Mataruahou slip that hasn t been touched in six months
10 May, 2021 08:11 PM
5 minutes to read
Napier flooding: Deluge the second wettest day on record in 150 years. Video Paul Taylor / Tori Spellar / Eve Lemm / Sam Kluts
Napier flooding: Deluge the second wettest day on record in 150 years. Video Paul Taylor / Tori Spellar / Eve Lemm / Sam Kluts
RNZ
By Tom Kitchin of RNZ
More than 20 families remain without a home after the horrific floods in Napier six months ago.
Patience is wearing thin for some.
From the front of the street Paul Matthews house on Mataruahou (Napier Hill) looks normal but from the back, it is a wreck.
Napier floods: 75 per cent of insurance claims settled 6 months on
7 May, 2021 06:00 PM
4 minutes to read
The deluge saw 242mm of rainfall in a day, causing significant damage to houses, buildings and land. Photo / Supplied
The deluge saw 242mm of rainfall in a day, causing significant damage to houses, buildings and land. Photo / Supplied
Six months after Napier suffered the second-wettest day on record, three-quarters of insurance claims are settled. The deluge on November 9, 2020, which saw 242mm of rainfall in a day, caused significant damage to houses, buildings and land, with a local state of emergency declared.
Half a year later, 75 per cent of the insurance claims on damaged properties in Napier are settled, according to Napier mayor Kirsten Wise.