Three weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle and flood victims are still waiting to hear more details of the government recovery plan.
Major state highways are out for the foreseeable for Wairoa, Hawke's Bay and Coromandel, with some communities cut off from school work and lifeline services including doctors.
Hundreds of houses, farm land and orchards are still thigh deep in silt, and displaced flood victims need long term homes.
The government's kicked $250m into a road rehab fund and about $75m into a support package for businesses, growers and farmers.
The Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson declined to be interviewed on Checkpoint about what's next.
But Thames Coromandel Mayor Len Salt, Wairoa Mayor Craig Little, and Napier's Deputy Mayor Annette Brosnan talk to Lisa Owen.
SH25 in Coromandel has partially reopened to light vehicles after a section of the highway fell away, but the mayor says the latest slip is bringing more anxiety to the region.
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State Highway 25 in Coromandel has now partially reopened to light vehicles after a section of the highway slipped away between Hikuai and Whangamat
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Cyclone Gabrielle, now a “severe category three storm”, is forecast to be one of the most serious storms to hit NZ this century, bringing up to