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Chloe Ranford Local Democracy Reporter12:23, Jul 19 2021 Arwen van Pallandt/Supplied Part of Queen Charlotte Drive between Havelock and Cullen Point in the Marlborough region has been washed away by flood water. Tourists trapped in holiday homes in the Marlborough Sounds following a weekend of heavy rain are at risk of running out of food, Civil Defence says. Roads across Marlborough have been blocked, flooded or washed away after heavy rain battered the upper South Island over the weekend, triggering state of emergencies in some regions. Marlborough emergency services manager Brian Paton said while permanent residents were used to being stranded, often keeping a month’s worth of supplies, holidaymakers weren’t. ....
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. ....