Cyclone Gabrielle has ravaged New Zealand leaving thousands displaced, homes destroyed, widespread flooding and large parts of the North Island still without power.
The North Island's East Coast was one of the hardest-hit areas, with many people forced to evacuate as floodwaters nearly completely submerged their properties.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins described the damage by Cyclone Gabrielle as the "most significant weather event New Zealand has seen in this century".
"The severity and the damage that we are seeing has not been experienced in a generation," Hipkins said.
At least five people have died from the cyclone and more than 140,000 are without power across parts of the North Island.
Nine-thousand people are displaced in Hawke's Bay alone, the Government says, while some communities on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula remain cut off.
Below are pictures showing the extent of the devastation.
