{"id":210451,"date":"2025-12-31T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210451\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:36:07","slug":"the-final-straw-seagull-nest-leads-to-flood-at-a-napier-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210451\/","title":{"rendered":"The final straw \u2013 seagull nest leads to flood at a Napier pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As in the other calamities<\/a>, the pharmacy that is one of the longest-surviving businesses in the Napier CBD continued operating on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, shoppers had to step around 13 air movers and two dehumidifiers provided by Chem-Dry Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n

Bailey and fellow pharmacist Gary Mellett said carrying on with business couldn\u2019t have happened without the effort of Chem-Dry franchisees Roy and Jan Arbman and their staff (Jade Walding-Karaitiana and Corey Rees), H&O Plumbing and the pharmacy\u2019s own staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry and find a tradie at Christmas,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

By midday on New Year\u2019s Eve, with business bolstered by passengers from cruise liner the Norwegian Spirit, the dryers had been running for 24 hours. Arbman told Bailey they would possibly need to be kept on for another two to three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve all done a fantastic job,\u201d said Bailey, who was supposed to be on holiday.<\/p>\n

Arbman and co arrived by 8.30am on Tuesday, with customers queueing at the front door as his truck with its suction pumps started the first stage of the recovery. <\/p>\n

He said it was one of six callouts his company had because of the rain on Monday and Tuesday, including one to Tamatea High School where several classrooms in one block were flooded.<\/p>\n

Heavy rain was recorded throughout Hawke\u2019s Bay, from Urewera country in the north to Porangahau in the south, with 24-hour falls of more than 70mm recorded across the region.<\/p>\n

According to the Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council\u2019s rain-gauge network, the most was 162mm at Waipoapoa, southeast of Hastings, a welcome relief for farmers after the hot and dry weather throughout December.<\/p>\n

\"NotNot quite your summer cruise stop-off in Napier, with the Celebrity Edge at dock on Monday amid the rain that brought an early end to most passengers’ day ashore. Photo \/ Doug Laing<\/p>\n

Rainfalls of more than 100mm were also recorded at Kotemaori and Waipatiki, north of Napier, and at sites east of Hastings, including 126mm at Waimarama.<\/p>\n

In northern Hawke\u2019s Bay, the Wairoa River railway bridge gauge recorded over 80mm, with similar falls upstream in Te Urewera, and in central and southern Hawke\u2019s Bay 91mm was recorded at Omakere and 83mm filled the gauge at Porangahau.<\/p>\n

The region has since returned to mainly fine weather and temperatures above 25C to end 2025 and mainly fine conditions are forecast for the next week.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing is a Napier-based reporter for Hawke\u2019s Bay Today, with more than half a century in journalism and more than 40 years in the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As in the other calamities, the pharmacy that is one of the longest-surviving businesses in the Napier CBD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,1975,1558,124,18236,5904,24925,305,128041,15902,685,22055,3607,35479,20998,111,43,139,69,2847,3194,25995,104973,128040,223,61],"class_list":["post-210451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-at","tag-been","tag-could","tag-eggs","tag-final","tag-flood","tag-have","tag-homemaking","tag-innercity","tag-last","tag-leads","tag-napier","tag-napiers","tag-nest","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-only","tag-pharmacy","tag-remaining","tag-seagull","tag-straw","tag-the","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}