24-02-2023, 01:50 PM
Hey Kenj. Herald says:
Evacuated under emergency to civil defence shelters and without power or communications in their homes: that was the fate of around 1000 Hawke’s Bay retirement village residents aged 75-plus when Cyclone Gabrielle hit.
Although four Summerset Hawke’s Bay villages lost power and communications, stand-by mobile diesel-powered generators and Starlinke Satellite services enabled services to be provided to hospitals and central buildings.
But Civil Defence evacuated more than 70 elderly residents from Napier’s Summerset Palms at Te Awa, Scoullar said.
It was the hardest hit out of the four.
Those in independent villas couldn’t use stoves or ovens and lost their deep-freeze contents, although their homes were undamaged.
Generators maintained the power to hospitals, central meeting and dining areas and that was where residents from the three villages gathered.
“We had to use helicopters,” Scoullar said, telling how flights brought in essential supplies to the three villages where residents sheltered in place.
Food, clinical supplies and bed linen were choppered in. Laundries at Summerset hospitals couldn’t continue on the standby generators.
Starlink Satellite connected at the Hawke’s Bay villages was another godsend and Scoullar said residents were able to use WhatsApp and Facebook messenger to contact friends and relatives.
Two chefs were flown to Hawke’s Bay from Auckland to help cook for people in independent living villas suffering power cuts to fridges, freezers, stoves and cooktops. Meals were provided free at the two villages on the Napier side: Summerset in the Bay and Summerset Palms.
Meals were free because of the emergency situation but usually they are not free for independent villa residents.
You? Or are you in a different on?
Evacuated under emergency to civil defence shelters and without power or communications in their homes: that was the fate of around 1000 Hawke’s Bay retirement village residents aged 75-plus when Cyclone Gabrielle hit.
Although four Summerset Hawke’s Bay villages lost power and communications, stand-by mobile diesel-powered generators and Starlinke Satellite services enabled services to be provided to hospitals and central buildings.
But Civil Defence evacuated more than 70 elderly residents from Napier’s Summerset Palms at Te Awa, Scoullar said.
It was the hardest hit out of the four.
Those in independent villas couldn’t use stoves or ovens and lost their deep-freeze contents, although their homes were undamaged.
Generators maintained the power to hospitals, central meeting and dining areas and that was where residents from the three villages gathered.
“We had to use helicopters,” Scoullar said, telling how flights brought in essential supplies to the three villages where residents sheltered in place.
Food, clinical supplies and bed linen were choppered in. Laundries at Summerset hospitals couldn’t continue on the standby generators.
Starlink Satellite connected at the Hawke’s Bay villages was another godsend and Scoullar said residents were able to use WhatsApp and Facebook messenger to contact friends and relatives.
Two chefs were flown to Hawke’s Bay from Auckland to help cook for people in independent living villas suffering power cuts to fridges, freezers, stoves and cooktops. Meals were provided free at the two villages on the Napier side: Summerset in the Bay and Summerset Palms.
Meals were free because of the emergency situation but usually they are not free for independent villa residents.
You? Or are you in a different on?