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Speaker 1: Lot of weather, around, lot of rain. Around four regions

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Speaker 1: across the North Island under a precautionary state of emergency. Fitzjanger,

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Speaker 1: Coramandel clut Off closed off, dozens of household and Thames

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Speaker 1: have been evacuated already. Peter Revel is the Thames Coramandal

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Speaker 1: district mayor with me tonight, Peter.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Good evening.

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Speaker 1: How are you holding up there in Thames Corimandel.

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Speaker 2: Ah, Well, we're actually holding up well, but we are

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Speaker 2: experiencing a huge volume of rain for sure. It's we

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Speaker 2: had almost record levels I think of rain overnight which

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Speaker 2: really severely impacted the east coast of our peninsula. So

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Speaker 2: fidy Yanger got cut off quite early in the morning

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Speaker 2: with flooding over roads and whatever. You continues to be

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Speaker 2: cut off, but we are expecting the worst of this

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Speaker 2: to come in the next four or five hours. Met

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Speaker 2: Service are telling us there's going to benficant volumes of

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Speaker 2: rain in the next four or five hours, so that

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Speaker 2: will certainly load up the rivers and threaten slippers, slips

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Speaker 2: on roads and what have you.

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Speaker 1: What's your biggest worry is it the roads? And are

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Speaker 1: people heading your warnings or are they sort of red

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Speaker 1: alerted out.

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Speaker 2: Look people. People are heading the heating wardings. You know,

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Speaker 2: we are. It's not uncommon for us to have in

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Speaker 2: clemant weather at certain times and the most residents kind

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Speaker 2: of know what that means, and so that's don't travel

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Speaker 2: unless you need to. But of course we're, you know,

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Speaker 2: one of the country's premiere holiday destination, so we've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of visitors, a lot of holidaymakers here who

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Speaker 2: may not be quite so used to having rain like

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Speaker 2: what we're having. So we're making sure we get the messages.

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Speaker 2: Don't you know, if you're on vulnerable ground, get to

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Speaker 2: high ground, you know, don't drive if you don't need

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Speaker 2: to drive. For many people, they won't be able to

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Speaker 2: because the roads is I think we've got to let

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Speaker 2: roads that are closed and they pretty much cuts off

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Speaker 2: many of the communities on the East coast, you know,

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Speaker 2: fidy inga Cooks Beach is cut off. POWERUI has cut off,

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Speaker 2: you know, because the roads are flooding.

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Speaker 1: All right, Peter tak here tonight, Peter reveal Thames Coramanel

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