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Speaker 1: Tasman District flooding and now slash massive landslides causing widespread destruction.

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Speaker 1: You would have seen the images on your TV, on

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Speaker 1: your phones, tons of logs creating a dam and flooding

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Speaker 1: people's homes. This is particularly bad in Nazi Motti A resident.

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Speaker 1: There's stiff Jewelers with me now, Hi Steff, Hi Man, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: good to have you on the phone. Tell me what's

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Speaker 1: it been like this time.

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Speaker 2: I haven't been here all day. For the afternoon, I've

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Speaker 2: been helping dig mud out of my neighbour's garage. And

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Speaker 2: I know that not far away there are people with

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Speaker 2: large and small machines digging mud from other people's gardens

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Speaker 2: and livelihoods, and we're all just doing what we fail.

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Speaker 2: And on the medium scale, the local pine industry, which

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Speaker 2: I think as Tasman pine, has been clearing some of

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Speaker 2: those log jams sort of further up the little streams

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Speaker 2: that I live up. And so it's all happening. As

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Speaker 2: soon as I wake, it's the sound of machinery.

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Speaker 1: And this is not the first time you had the

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Speaker 1: same problem with Geta.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, and before that in the early nineties, might

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Speaker 2: have been nineteen ninety with cyclone Bolla. The area, the

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Speaker 2: Moderaiker Valley is famous for its particular kind of loose

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Speaker 2: granite called separation point granite. Problem here is that it

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Speaker 2: should never have a monocrop of pine plantation on the

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Speaker 2: steeper slopes. We're not against the pine plantation, but it

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be on those steeper slopes.

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Speaker 1: Have you spoken You said that there was one of

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Speaker 1: the pine companies there today help and clean up. Do

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Speaker 1: you speak to them about it? What do they say now?

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Speaker 2: I haven't spoken to them about it. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: very helpful around here. They've been up the top of

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Speaker 2: Greenhole Road before because it keeps on coming down when

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Speaker 2: we get a big rain. I mean, it's not it's

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Speaker 2: a very multifaceted problem. The pine forest is one part

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Speaker 2: of the problem, and the huge rains which are increasing

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Speaker 2: with global warming are another part of the problem.

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Speaker 1: Steve, how do people feel in Nati Molti today? Todd Well,

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Speaker 1: I think very.

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Speaker 2: Glad to have had a sunny day, exhausted from the

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Speaker 2: massive effort of helping each other that everybody is making.

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Speaker 2: You know that all the people who are around here,

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Speaker 2: everyone's been helping each other. And this is the lovely

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Speaker 2: time we get to know each other in politics don't matter.

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Speaker 2: The color of your stripe is irrelevant at this time.

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Speaker 1: Step appreciate you coming on the program in explaining that

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Speaker 1: to us, keep up the hard work. Steff Jewel is

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Speaker 1: a resident of Nati Mooti, which has been hit by

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Speaker 1: slash again.

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