{"id":388027,"date":"2026-04-20T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:22:08","slug":"hawkes-bay-weather-safety-mohaka-river-monitoring-system-stolen-during-cyclone-vaianu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388027\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay weather safety: Mohaka River monitoring system stolen during Cyclone Vaianu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Council said the information it provides is critical during significant weather events to help assess river behaviours, flood risk and potential impacts on the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/sophie-siers-half-a-billion-reasons-to-future-proof-hawkes-bay-from-climate-chaos\/XPYSDG2RSFCM5OTEV26NGNL57U\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/sophie-siers-half-a-billion-reasons-to-future-proof-hawkes-bay-from-climate-chaos\/XPYSDG2RSFCM5OTEV26NGNL57U\/\">Regional council chairwoman Sophie Siers<\/a> said the theft was \u201cunbelievable and completely unacceptable\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cStealing essential monitoring equipment during a cyclone directly undermines our ability to keep communities safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAfter what Hawke\u2019s Bay went through during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/cyclone-gabrielle\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/cyclone-gabrielle\/\">Cyclone Gabrielle<\/a>, anyone involved in this should be ashamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t just theft, it\u2019s putting lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">She said replacing the system will be expensive, and the council is now assessing options to restore monitoring for that part of the river. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police and quote the file number 260415\/0987. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council said the information it provides is critical during significant weather events to help assess river behaviours, flood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1561,682,12857,33959,1359,2837,1976,42,111569,25306,43,6739,6302,4736,6211,14168,40,38,41,39,137794,43072,192592,376,4998],"class_list":["post-388027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bay","tag-being","tag-completely","tag-cyclone","tag-described","tag-during","tag-hawkes","tag-headlines","tag-mohaka","tag-monitoring","tag-news","tag-river","tag-safety","tag-stolen","tag-system","tag-theft","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unacceptable","tag-unbelievable","tag-vaianu","tag-water","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388027","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=388027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}