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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 reduce the risk of flooding, and anchoring a resident s trampoline to a tree. ....
Morgane Solignac Chloe Ranford Local Democracy Reporter16:44, Jul 19 2021 RICKY WILSON/STUFF 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. ....
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