Photo: Supplied / Philippa Wright
A grandmother who fled rising floodwaters with her moko is overwhelmed by the scale of destruction in her East Coast community.
"I've probably walked around in circles a thousand times," Philippa Wright told RNZ from her Te Araroa home, "not really knowing where to begin".
Photo: Supplied / Philippa Wright
As a digger shifted mud and logs on the property, Wright said she, her 10-year-old grandson, and husband Steve were "extremely lucky" to survive the storm that laid waste to the township last week.
"Seeing what they're digging out ...
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