{"id":14663,"date":"2021-05-31T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:23:27","slug":"evacuating-hundreds-of-people-because-of-the-floods-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14663","title":{"rendered":"Evacuating Hundreds of People Because of the Floods in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of people were evacuated overnight in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13146\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13146\">flood <\/a>due to heavy rains in New Zealand, the Canterbury area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 31, 2021 \u2013 International News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 300 residents of Canterbury were evacuated overnight as water levels in the region&#8217;s rivers rose to record levels over the past 100 years. Several highways, schools, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14448\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14448\">offices <\/a>were closed, and New Zealand defense forces used helicopters to rescue some people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown said &#8220;half of Ashburton&#8221; would have to be evacuated if the river dams burst, but the river &#8220;still has enough power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The storm in China killed 11 people and injured more than 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14199\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14199\">Volcanic Lava in the Congo Reaches Goma Airport<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people were evacuated overnight in a flood due to heavy rains in New Zealand, the Canterbury area. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 31, 2021 \u2013 International News At least 300 residents of Canterbury were evacuated overnight as water levels in the region&#8217;s rivers rose to record levels over the past 100 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6069,1837,5766,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-14663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-evacuation","tag-flood","tag-new-zealand","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14665,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions\/14665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}