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Report from RNZ About 20 Breaker Bay residents refused to leave their homes last night, after people from about 70 coastal homes were told to evacuate before the high tide. Civil Defence controller Derek Baxter said this was incredibly disappointing. Civil Defence and police crews were stationed in the area for the night, to keep people off Breaker Bay Road, assist with any late evacuations, and to obstruct any storm-watchers who didn’t live there. Dan Neely of the Wellington Regional Emergency Management Office said emergency response teams knocked on 146 homes yesterday, to communicate the level of threat. “It was looking like a ‘threat to life’ scenario particularly in the Breaker Bay area when you consider the dynamics that it has poor road access, poor radio communications, that it was taking place at night time.” ....
Donna Cross of Three Eyes Gallery lives at 127 Breaker Bay Rd, and she intended staying put until she was asked to evacuate. She said her house was on a point a long way from the breaking waves and it “looked liked a normal stormy day”. “It’s a long, long way away from my house, so I’m really just going to ignore the warning. I’ve got a two-storey house anyway - it’s not a tsunami.” Donna Cross/Supplied Breaker Bay Rd resident Donna Cross has no intention of leaving her home describing the weather as “just like a normal stormy day”. This was the view from the second storey of her house on Tuesday at 5pm, an hour and half after a State of Emergency was declared along that section of the road. ....