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Speaker 1: Nine nine two is the text number standard text fees supply.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to the huddle about it later on. Now,

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Speaker 1: there is quite a bit of wet weather going on

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Speaker 1: at the moment. The Lower North Island and parts of

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Speaker 1: the South Island have been thrashed by heavy rain and

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Speaker 1: flooding today and more is yet to come. There is

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Speaker 1: a major slip blocking off a community of more than

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Speaker 1: fifty homes in Graymouth. Waterways and Carpety and Portada are

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Speaker 1: now a big concern because more heavy rain is expected

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Speaker 1: over the next few hours. Met Service meteorologist Lewis Ferris

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Speaker 1: is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Lewis Kyoto. Yes, a very busy start to this

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Speaker 2: working week on the weather front.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you expecting in Wellington yet to come?

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Speaker 2: Well, it does look like the heaviest of the rain

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Speaker 2: is kind of on that easing trend. There are still

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Speaker 2: some showers around They could bring some localized heavy rain,

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Speaker 2: but it's not going to be that same sort of widespread,

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Speaker 2: intense rainfall that we saw through the early hours of

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Speaker 2: this morning around dawn, So that's kind of some good news,

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Speaker 2: But there is still further rain onto those saturated soils

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Speaker 2: and it's not just today. As we head into tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: we will see some more rain. Even this week, it's

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Speaker 2: still looking very unsettled in terms of weather fronts coming

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Speaker 2: along the west coast of the South Arm then moving

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Speaker 2: on to the North Arm. So it's not the last

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Speaker 2: rain that we're going to see this week, Lewis.

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Speaker 1: What is it about the rain that fell in Wellington

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Speaker 1: that was so special? I mean, it's not as if

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Speaker 1: Wellington doesn't cope with its fair fair share of wet weather,

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Speaker 1: So why did this cause so much trouble?

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Speaker 2: It was just the intensity of it. So it was

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Speaker 2: a lot of stations saw over ten millimeters of rain

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Speaker 2: in an hour. Some got up over that twenty millimeters

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Speaker 2: of rain, and it was kind of that rain, those

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Speaker 2: sorts of rain rates that were around for about that

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Speaker 2: three hour time So most urban areas aren't really going

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Speaker 2: to cope with seeing that high intensity rainfall over a

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Speaker 2: sort of three hour time space. That's when we're going

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Speaker 2: to start seeing surface flooding. That's when we're going to

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Speaker 2: start seeing especially waterways come up very quickly. Yes, you're right,

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Speaker 2: Wellington isn't the driest place on Earth, but it is

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Speaker 2: when we're seeing these sorts of rain rates into urban

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Speaker 2: areas where we do start to see areas, areas start

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Speaker 2: to see flooding, and other areas start to be affected.

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Speaker 3: Lewis, what about the West Coast, are they going to

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Speaker 3: copper break?

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Speaker 2: Not really, just with this very active weather pattern coming

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Speaker 2: from the west, that does look like Graymouth will probably

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Speaker 2: see some more rain. And the rainfall that fell sort

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Speaker 2: of in the last twenty four hours, it wasn't a

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Speaker 2: huge amount, but over the last sort of two weeks,

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Speaker 2: I've just sort of had a steady amount of rain

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Speaker 2: just piling in, not every day, but sort of most days.

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Speaker 2: So it's going to be quite saturated around there. It

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Speaker 2: is a place that is known for a runoff to

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Speaker 2: happen quite quickly. But if they are going to see

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Speaker 2: more rain this week, which they are, it is not

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Speaker 2: out of the question that similar effects could be seen

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Speaker 2: around the region.

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Speaker 1: Lewis, Thanks for that, man, I really appreciate it. That's

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Speaker 1: Lewis Ferris met Service meteorologists.

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Speaker 3: Now. Graymouth District Council says.

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Speaker 1: Road access to that community of more than fifty homes

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Speaker 1: cut off will remain cut off for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the evening for tonight. Power fortunately in the area is

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Speaker 1: back on and Graymouse Mayor Tania Gibson is with us.

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Speaker 3: Heitanya, good afternoon. How big is the slip?

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's a pretty big one really, and you know,

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Speaker 4: at the moment it's still moving. So we're just assessing

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Speaker 4: the situation because the residents and of course the contractors

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Speaker 4: safety really needs to come into account.

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Speaker 1: Right and if it's still moving, that means as long

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Speaker 1: as it's moving, you can't clear it really a.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, at the moment they have started clearing. But

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Speaker 4: when they were working on it this morning, it did

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Speaker 4: come down again, which you know caused a bit of

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Speaker 4: anxiety at that stage in time. So we did hope

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Speaker 4: that we could get it open today, but with that happening,

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Speaker 4: it's just not a possibility.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I heard your house got struck by lightning.

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Speaker 3: Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, well it was a bit of a fright

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Speaker 4: last night. It wasn't a major, but yes there was.

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Speaker 4: We wondered what it was. We thought the roof might

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Speaker 4: be coming off, and I think this was the same

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Speaker 4: quick squall that came through and then we had a

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Speaker 4: bit of burning and some plugs behind the bed that

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Speaker 4: we had to try and find where that smell was

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Speaker 4: coming from no way? Is that not a major?

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Speaker 1: How did you know, Tanya that something had gone wrong?

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Speaker 1: Was it the smell of the burning or was there

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Speaker 1: like a flash or something.

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Speaker 4: There was a flash and it was kind of to that. Well,

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Speaker 4: it did the roof in it and everything was shaping

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Speaker 4: and it was like a really violent squall that come through.

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Speaker 4: And I believe that's the same time as aren't it

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Speaker 4: lost power and had to slip, So it's and then

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Speaker 4: the burning smell.

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Speaker 3: Did you get a sparky round?

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, I think we're getting someone around. Someone's taking

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Speaker 4: care of that for us today and again I tuned

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Speaker 4: them on and again this morning, and there's a bit

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Speaker 4: of a burning smell.

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Speaker 3: So we're just.

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Speaker 4: Checking that out. But it wasn't a major. But the

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Speaker 4: poor people aren't sites are way more affected.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, listen, these guys, the fifty homes that

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Speaker 1: are cut off, not too worried about them. Then they'll

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Speaker 1: have enough supplies and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, and I know that some of the contractors

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Speaker 4: have helped a couple of people down the hill today

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Speaker 4: that needed medication and that they are on standby and

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Speaker 4: we're all in contact with the residents. If they need

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Speaker 4: anything like medication that you know, it can be arranged

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Speaker 4: for the contractors to take that up. But for anything

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Speaker 4: that's non essential, I think they're pretty right. We're in

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Speaker 4: close contact, but yeah, they just need to kind of

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Speaker 4: hold it out and wait up there for a bit longer.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Tony, You listen, Thank you appreciate it. Best

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Speaker 1: of Luckily, that's to Gibson, Graymouth, mayor a. Her house

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Speaker 1: got struck by lightning. That just makes the Maureen Pew

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Speaker 1: story so much more believable, doesn't it, Because where does

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Speaker 1: Maureen come from the West Coast. She's been struck by

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Speaker 1: lightning like gazillion times, and it's often been I think

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Speaker 1: it's always been in her house actually, so maybe it's

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Speaker 1: just the thing. If you live in Graymouth or on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast, just brace yourself for lightning being one

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