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Marlborough Sounds flooding: Trapped students shovelled mud in aftermath


Students making sandbags in Anakiwa.
Photo: Supplied / Outward Bound
They were part of the large community response to the flooding in the Sounds that cut off isolated settlements last weekend. Tourist and barge operators joined in the rescue and recovery efforts.
Ninety teenagers were two weeks into their three-week mind body soul course with Outward Bound, based in Anakiwa, when MetService forecast downpours for the top of south last weekend.
The students were quick to embrace their haepapa (responsibility) lessons before the weather hit, making and placing sandbags around Anakiwa to reduce the risk of flooding, and anchoring a resident s trampoline to a tree. ....

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Lightning strikes, seagull attacks, 'DudeFest': News from around our 50 states


Lightning strikes, seagull attacks, ‘DudeFest’: News from around our 50 states
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
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Lightning arcs into the Grand Canyon near Point Sublime on the North Rim. At least four people were injured after being struck by lightning while hiking in the Grand Canyon on Tuesday.
Alabama
Spanish Fort: An Alabama police officer who stood at attention during a rainstorm to honor a deceased World War II soldier said he simply wanted to recognize a veteran from a small town. Wearing his regular uniform rather than rain gear, Officer Newman Brazier of the Mount Vernon Police Department got out of his police car and stood at attention as the funeral procession of Robert Lee Serling entered the Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Spanish Fort on Monday, WPMI-TV reported. Serling died on June 5 at age 100. Soaked, Brazier didn’t get out of the weather until the procession had ....

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