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It will be an expensive clean-up bill in Marlborough - after the region took a hammering of rain two weeks ago.
The scale of the recovery is still being established - paddocks are flooded, there are slips on roads and communities are still cut off.
The government's pledged more money to help affected communities today.. but some say a return to normal life is some way away.
Our reporter Samantha Gee joined the Prime Minister on a fly-over of the worst affected areas.