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A week after Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the North Island, some streets in the West Auckland community of Muriwai remain cordoned off, with residents unable to access their homes.
While geotechnical engineers wait for conditions to be safe enough to complete assessments of the area, residents are caught in limbo.
But one resident is trying to turn the despair into hope, and keep displaced people within the community.
Tom Taylor reports.