Morgane Solignac Chloe Ranford Local Democracy Reporter16:44, Jul 19 2021
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Aerial footage shows slip damaged on Queen Charlotte Dr following wild weather in Marlborough.
A Christchurch couple had to message emergency services through a friend in Auckland after a mud slip cause by heavy rain took out two baches beside them in the Marlborough Sounds. Christchurch woman Lucy Clark and her husband Alastair thought their “mini break” in Pukenui Bay, off Queen Charlotte Drive, would be “wonderful” until the weather went “wild”. During their first day at the bach, their neighbour, a long-term resident, told them the heavy rain that had been battering the upper South Island on Friday night had caused the road out to collapse a metre, trapping them in the bay.