Weather / Climate

Wild weather: Should Westport move entirely?

17:07 pm on 19 July 2021

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Some Westport residents have returned to see the full scale of the damage to their properties from this weekend's flooding.

Many sodden homes remain unlivable, their occupants forced to doss down in emergency centres for another night.

After days of heavy rain, the sunshine is back - but with it - a picture of the full scale of the disaster.

It has led some to call for the town itself to look for a new home.

Anei te kai ripoata a Anan Zaki a Westport.