When Dudley and Lee-Ann Morgan moved to the Otago township of Lawrence in July, they thought they’d left the worst of life’s storms behind. But just a few months later, their new town was struck by a violent weather event that tore through the region leaving them clinging, quite literally, to their greenhouse.

Jasmine Weston is a Dunedinite, archaeologist, and disaster welfare and support volunteer. She recently received the Jennifer Clark Memorial Scholarship, awarded to people aged 30 and under so that they can attend a course as part of their leadership development. The scholarship is to the value of $2,000.

October 2024 was the third time Sandra Williams' house in South Dunedin had been flooded, but last time she’d been more mobile and able to take care of herself.

Mark Wills was in Dunedin for a couple of hours with his two children to meet friends when the road closed behind them and left them stranded.

Two of the wettest days in over a hundred years left a number of Dunedin and Otago people without safe homes or stranded away from home last week.