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Whether in crisis, disaster, or conflict, your help is needed today to deliver life-changing support to people where the need is greatest – here in New Zealand and around the world.
Will you be there for those caught in a disaster, ensuring they have the practical and emotional support they need when it matters most?
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This is what that support looks like in action. When disaster strikes, people like Mercia from Hawke’s Bay are not left to face it alone. After floodwaters engulfed her home, the sight of a Red Cross team coming up her driveway gave her a much-needed sense of relief. Watch her story to see how your generosity can bring relief and hope during people’s darkest moments.
So we'd woken up on that morning of Gabrielle and we thought we'd got, we thought we were OK. There was water, there was lots of pooling water around the place, but we thought we'd got, we thought we were good and had family ringing saying are you OK?
We're going.
Yeah, we're OK.
We're OK.
It's really wet, but we're OK.
By this time the Waimate stream behind us was starting to, was starting to flood and coming across, but it was, it was small.
It was only, you know, it was sort of like this high.
That was the time when our son comes screaming down the driveway.
He's, he was shouting at us.
We've got to go, we've got to go, we've got to go now.
And it was a case of literally get in the car and we, and we had the cat in a cat cage.
And we, I left the stuff that I'd organised on the bed and we just got in the car and my son and his wife and their baby were in their four-wheel drive and they got their dog in there and they sort of headed up the driveway, which, and the water was coming up over the bonnet at that point.
We got up onto the on the road and we followed them and it was sort of raining and it was misty and it was, and the comms had gone by then.
We had communication up to about then and that was it it'd just gone.
And we.
Where do you go?
It was, Yeah, it was scary.
It was.
Yeah.
And it's very, It was from being everything fine to everything turning to chaos was quick and it was frightening.
And it was frightening.
Yeah, yeah.
You can see all the fences, all that fence that was full of apples and debris and then you opened into the houses and they would just look like a tornado had come through.
Everything had moved the, the water came through the cat door and just moved it just, it lifted everything, swirled it all round and dumped it again.
And it was just, there was silt everywhere.
It was up over the over the kitchen benches.
It was in the drawers that you'd open the drawers.
It was all through the clothes.
It was everything below 1.8.
Yeah, it was, yeah, everything.
It was, it was just also, I guess, I suppose we're walking around in shock and but you don't register it as shock and you just, oh, it was just everything was, was wet and sticky and yeah, all, all like the furniture and yeah, it was just, yeah, it was, it was awful.
I can remember them coming with their vehicle parked out on the road and we met them on the driveway.
It was yeah.
It was like, oh, someone cares.
Someone cares, Someone actually cares.
And we hadn't seen that.
It was just that that very reassurance that you were not alone because we felt very isolated here on our own.
Even at night, there was there was no other lights.
Everything was, it was just very, the whole valley was empty.
It was just very reassuring.
We realised we weren't alone because you felt very, very isolated.
Yeah.
It was godsend and they offered to come in and talk to us and, tell so we could tell our story.
But we, the fact that I guess the best thing we got was the fact that they gave us, they empowered us to find more assistance that was available
but we just didn't know how to get it.
It was, it was a godsend, to be honest.
People who seem to care, someone actually cares.
And it was that's, you know, under stress situation.
It was.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we hugged them.
I'm pretty sure we were so happy to see them.
Yeah, there was a lot of hugging.
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