On the morning of Feb. 14, after Cyclone Gabrielle struck the North Island of New Zealand, Ashley Church woke up to see backyards and roads completely flooded.
Miraculously, his own house was untouched, just mere metres away from the flood waters.
“I walked down the road; all of the houses there were flooded except ours—ours wasn’t touched. If people had cars in the driveway, they were submerged underwater,” Church told The Epoch Times.
“But that was all we knew.”
With the power cut off and the roads completely flooded, Church’s community in Whirinaki Beach, Hawke’s Bay, had no way of receiving information….
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