1984 Floods
People felt pressured
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No one drowned. No one was electrocuted. No one succumbed to disease. But people did die from the 1984 floods.Preserving memories
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The 25th anniversary of the 1984 Southland floods will be marked with a series of activities organised by the Southland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group throughout the year.A lasting financial legacy of the flood
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First came the rain, then the money poured in.Flying high
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It wasn't just people who needed rescuing during the 1984 floods — livestock were airlifted to safety by helicopter around the province.Couple lucky with small flood losses
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Margaret Peake and her husband David lived at the western end of Fox St.
Looking after stopbanks is dam important
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Love Your Stopbanks!Could a flood this bad happen again?
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It's easy to use extravagant language to describe the floods of 1984.Southland Times editorials
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Extracts from editorials run after the devastating floods of January, 1984:Doing that extra bit
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You do what you can for people.How prepared are you?
Five minutes may be all the warning you get
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When water from the Waihopai River started pouring into Grasmere just after lunch one Friday in 1984, families had little warning of the approaching torrent.All flights cancelled
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For a while there, Invercargill reeked.Getting back to order after the floods
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As the water level went up, the crime rate came down.'A town devastated'
Otautau scoured
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In Southland's Black Friday surely one of the most well-thumbed and, appropriately, bedraggled volumes at the Invercargill Public Library author Clive Lind readily admits that, in any disaster, comparisons between areas are odious. Then he says it anyway, because it's true: "Proportionately, Otautau suffered most in the floods of January 1984.Flood of memories
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Twenty-five years ago today, at 4am on a Friday, Invercargill declared a state of emergency.Watching as your life washes away
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Elizabeth Gerrard was hanging out the washing just hours before the floods came.Never a Day Like It, and lived through
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First came the mournful wailing of the civil defence siren. Then came the urgent hammering on the front door about 4am.If it's this bad now, what's still to come?
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"Is it?" Garry Goodman needed reminding that 25 years had passed since the Southland floods of 1984.Your say: The 1984 floods
The floods of 1984 had a wide impact throughout Southland, cutting Invercargill in half and causing devastating damage around the province.
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