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‘Like a bloody ocean’

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BRANSON Road is the forgotten road.

So says resident Sarah Blair, who said Cyclone Gabrielle flooding swept through the road “like a bloody ocean”.

Husband Tim, who twice traversed the road— once by swimming and once by vehicle — in the early hours of Tuesday morning to alert neighbours, said he had still not seen anyone from Gisborne District Council or Civil Defence.

He saw one Civil ...


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