Wairoa's rural community faces a huge cleanup after Cyclone Gabrielle sent water and silt raging through their properties and across their paddocks.
The Army was out yesterday helping some of the worst hit farmers, but it's locals with shovels and buckets who are doing the bulk of the heavy work.
The flood waters rushed through the historic farm Turiroa on State Highway 2 south of Wairoa and left a thick layer of silt through the buildings and across the fields.
Rowley Powdrell, whose family have been farming there for generations, showed our producer Matthew Theunissen around the property.
