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Suzie Edmonds' commute involves gumboots, a head torch and two cars - one on either side of the slips.

Students making sandbags in Anakiwa. Photo: Supplied / Outward Bound They were part of the large community response to the flooding in the Sounds that cut off isolated settlements last weekend. Tourist and barge operators joined in the rescue and recovery efforts. Ninety teenagers were two weeks into their three-week "mind body soul" course with Outward Bound, based in Anakiwa, when MetService forecast downpours for the top of south last weekend. The students were quick to embrace their haepapa (responsibility) lessons before the weather hit, making and placing sandbags around Anakiwa to red...

“We’re not sure how much water got into the houses ... The stop banks will be bomb-proof by the time we’re finished.” Marlborough Mayor John Leggett said the region’s civil defence team was conscious that more heavy rain could add more water to Marlborough's “already sodden soil”. More bad weather could affect Queen Charlotte Drive, which re-opened on Tuesday for the first time in three days with traffic measures, so workers could continue clearing slips. “Public safety is the only priority ... Caution is key.” Leggett said the civil defence team was not yet sure how ma...

Supplied Māori Ford bridge on Waihopai Valley Rd submerged by flood water. But they were not the only Marlburians stranded by the torrential rain that wreaked havoc on the region on Saturday and Sunday. Slips on Queen Charlotte Drive, a scenic Marlborough Sounds road between Picton and Havelock, had left residents cut off too. Speaking to the Express by email as her landline and cell phone were down, Moenui Bay resident Lisa Clem said she and many other residents felt “forgotten”. “We have had no contact from council, civil defence, no mention of our plight by the deputy mayor on t...