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Water covers SH1 near Kawakawa


The scene at Taumarere, just north of Kawakawa, where floodwaters covered a 200m stretch of State Highway 11. Here a local cuts fence wires draped across the highway before attempting to cross; the drivers of the rental car and the van in the middle of the flood had to be rescued by a policeman riding a tractor’s digger bucket.

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