Livelihoods in tatters after months of relentless rain and extreme weather – and the clean-up is just beginning
aryn Maddren walks out into the ruins of her stud farm, and stands in front of the waterfall. A month earlier, it was a green hillside. Now, the dirt has fallen away, exposing the golden-ribbed sandstone beneath. Water washes over the rocks, running clear now, carrying the last of the silt downstream.“When you’re at the bottom and you turn around you look up and there’s all the beauty. When you turn around and look the other way – there’s the ugliness.
“With the waterways clogged and rivers blocked, they don’t have to be significant events any more to cause flooding – because there’s nowhere for the water to go.” “But the collective cost of this – It’s starting to take its toll,” she says. “People are feeling fragile”. Steve Dill’s family have farmed sheep and cattle in the Kaipara hills, north of Auckland, for five generations.
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