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A deluge of rain so heavy that it engulfed cars, made roads impassable and flooded many properties caused a rapid emergency response in Dairy Flat.
Waters rose quickly after intense heavy rain in the afternoon on Friday, February 24.
Dairy Flat representative on the Rodney Local Board, Louise Johnston, was in the thick of it.
She says Auckland Transport contractors were on Blackbridge Road repairing damage from previous floods and had to abandon that work as the rain fell.
“Blackbridge Road is not normally flood-prone, but this downpour was really localised,”...
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