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Fire and Emergency NZ were calling for residents' help accessing boats they could use to reach people cut off by floods in Dairy Flat last night. “They came up ...

“Then we kind of got in, unpacked our bags and stuff and we looked out the window and it was getting up by the post box. So I think the water levels were moving a lot quicker than last time, which was really nerve-wracking.” Is it going to flood again? I didn’t like to be in the dark of what’s happening to my house. “And that’s one thing I didn’t want to do because I wanted to know what’s happening. So we grabbed everything and got in the boat,” Emily said. Then we got picked up from there and got taken to our neighbours.” “Because we were hit quite badly last time, we were trying to stop the water from getting in the house,” Hesling said. “During the first floods, a section of our deck was picked up, moved 50 metres and dropped on top of our fence,” he said. “They opened up the Dairy Flat hall for people who were stranded, and they spent the night there.” “When it’s torrential and it’s deeper in front of us and deeper behind us, you can’t see anything, and then a fin pops up in front of you,” Lester said. “So we got home and it was raining really heavily and we could see there were puddles growing on the driveway, and I thought to myself we should get the car up to our neighbour’s house in case,” Olivia said.