Her partner Bailey Anderson was in the sodden living room at the time of the slip ripping up carpet to dry it. <\/p>\n
\u201cAround 1.30[pm], I heard a tree snap. I ran out of the house and I saw the slip coming. I was out of the way before it made contact with the room. It completely destroyed the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe slip probably would have been big enough to bury me. There was a garage and it actually pushed the car that was in the garage through the wall of our living room.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another section of the house, Dani and her 2-year-old daughter, Harlow, could only hear the destruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought it must be machinery, living on a farm. And that rumble just got stronger and stronger, and realising that it wasn\u2019t machinery, we just had to stay put because if we ran out who knows what would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dani Stewart and Bailey Anderson’s P\u0101p\u0101moa home was totally destroyed by a slip on January 22.<\/p>\n
Another lifeline was offered to the 22-year- old parents and Harlow in the chaos after the slip hit their home that afternoon. <\/p>\n
Isolated on the P\u0101p\u0101moa hills, cut off by flooded roads and multiple slips, Stewart called family friend Sam Roome. Sam and Chris Roome\u2019s son Darian is close friends with Dani and Bailey.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s my friend\u2019s mum and she\u2019s pretty much my mum at this point. I rang her that morning because of the flood and said, \u2018hey, look I can\u2019t have Harlow here, that\u2019s not possible, and she kindly opened her arms and said, come here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no words for that. I could cry, honestly, they are just the most amazing people ever. I could never pay them back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dani Stewart, 22, Bailey Anderson, 22, and their daughter, and Harlow Anderson, 2. Their P\u0101p\u0101moa home was destroyed by a landslip last Thursday. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n
The couple are now living in a caravan in the backyard of the Roomes\u2019 P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach home. It offers some privacy while allowing Harlow, and their cat, some space to roam and play following the trauma of that day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarlow, she\u2019s on the spectrum. Obviously the whole property we were on, there were effects from all of the water damage, so she couldn\u2019t go walking around. I\u2019d have to keep her in one spot. It was really hard and she had no idea what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bailey strikes a more philosophical view of the loss of nearly every possession they own, aside from the clothes on their back.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy personality is just, it is what it is, everyone\u2019s safe. It\u2019s only property, it\u2019s only material items, it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family had no insurance, so are now basically starting from scratch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe couldn\u2019t afford insurance, that\u2019s just not something that would be in the cards for us,\u201d Dani said<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to start fresh, but at least we\u2019re safe. Bailey managed to grab a handful of Harlow\u2019s clothes, and we\u2019ve managed to get a few essential pieces to tie us over, but yeah, living with the bare essentials.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dani Stewart, Bailey Anderson, and their daughter, Harlow. Their P\u0101p\u0101moa home was destroyed by a landslip. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n
Sam Roome says she didn\u2019t think twice about offering a place to stay when she got the call.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. I mean they\u2019re like my own kids pretty much. They attend all our family functions so as soon as they said they\u2019d lost their home, our son, who is their best friend came straight home from work and basically hopped in the car with my husband and went up there and grabbed them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trip to rescue the young Anderson family was an ordeal of its own.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty hairy. The water was up to the cab going along the bridge. But we\u2019re grateful they are safe, because that could have turned nasty, pretty bad pretty quick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bailey described chaos on the roads leading to their property.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s multiple slips before you even get to our driveway. There [were] cars submerged on the road. [The Roomes] They have a really high-rise ute, but with a normal car there would have been no way to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dani Stewart and Bailey Anderson’s P\u0101p\u0101moa home.<\/p>\n
Sam Roome said they would have accommodated the family any which way once they got them safely under their roof.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would have thrown mattresses on the floor if we didn\u2019t have the caravan, and I run a daycare from home. I\u2019m a home based educator so we\u2019ve got the set up for Harlow and all the toys, beds and cots. It just made perfect sense I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just a few days after being left homeless, the Andersons have no clear picture of what the future holds. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo idea. We\u2019ll figure something out,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are other options we are looking at, but again, it\u2019s not 100%. It\u2019s just whatever we can get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yesterday afternoon, police released the names of the six people unaccounted for in Thursday\u2019s massive landslide in Mount Maunganui. <\/p>\n
Those missing are Rotorua grandmother Sue Knowles, Morrinsville school tutor Lisa Maclennan, 15-year-old Pakuranga College students Max Furse-Kee and Sharon Maccanico, 71-year-old Jacqualine Wheeler from Rotorua and 20-year-old Swedish tourist Mans Bernhardsson.<\/p>\n