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.

Araiteuru Marae in Ōtepoti | Dunedin hosts a weekly event, Pātaka Ora. For the past few years, it has been a place for anyone to meet people from different cultures.

As Jaafar Imran recalls this chilling warning, it is hard to imagine the struggles the family went through to begin a new life in New Zealand. Along with his wife, Ghusoon Khasmir, and four children – Sajjad, Mustafa, Murtadha and Fatimah – Jaafar recently celebrated his one year Kiwi anniversary, settling into their new lives in Dunedin.