Orua Bay House Collapse: Survivors Miracle Escape - NZ Herald

It was a beautiful morning in a picture postcard spot, and then the house collapsed.

Moments earlier on February 1, in the aftermath of the Auckland floods, Cheryl Gilroy was in the lounge reading This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor. Her mother was enjoying the sea view and the sun had just come out.

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