Officials say they may need to do welfare checks on people in the worst hit areas, should Cyclone Gabrielle hit hard.

Tairawhiti Civil Defence Controller Ben Green told Kate Hawkesby there could be further damage.

“We know enough to guess the different forecast models and they certainly correlate around the fact you’re going to see landfall and impact and it just comes down to varying degrees of impact.”

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Officials say they may need to do welfare checks on people in the worst hit areas, should Cyclone Gabrielle hit hard.
Tairawhiti Civil Defence Controller Ben Green told Kate Hawkesby there could be further damage.
“We know enough to guess the different forecast models and they certainly correlate around the fact you’re going to see landfall and impact and it just comes down to varying degrees of impact.”
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