Trish Wallace, the owner of Madisons in central Napier, describes the damage from the flood (video first published November 9). Piles of rubbish have replaced the floodwaters that filled Napier streets last week, much to the disappointment of local residents. Tom Kitchin/RNZ Rubbish on the streets of Marewa in Napier after the floods. Meanwhile, a few streets away, the rubbish has been cleared from one of the schools worst affected by the flood, Henry Hill School in Onekawa. "It's just the unpredictability of things with Covid, with the first lockdown and then with the change of alert levels months later, and now a flood in Napier, who would've thought we'd flood?

Source: Stuff November 20, 2020 07:52 UTC