Greymouth Flood,Union Hotel on the right ,September .1988.

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DescriptionSeptember 1988 Greymouth Flood.Date of Photo1988Map^[1]ContributorTony Kokshoorn

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Date Created15th April 2022CommentsBrian Case
Night I meet my wife bugger
Christine Case
Brian Casewrong night..or wrong wife
You meet me 1970
Barbara Fitzsimmons
Christine Case bless him .He still remembers you .like

Del Godfrey
Gosh remember this flood and the next one so seemingly close too!

Robyn Edwards
Must have been so scary!

Phil Millar
I was with Percy Wllis that day !

Lesley Parker Butland
Venice of the West

Kerry Keating
Tide's in huh???

Trish Rennie
Global warming...

Rose Henham
Was scary eh ?????
Lynne Kokshoorn
Christine Case lol Funny

Katarina Leaf-Dobbs
This was in 1978 outside the Greymouth High School Hostel. We had quite the adventure lol
May be a black-and-white image of 5 people and outdoors

Mark Martini
I was at the hostel in the 88 floods, I remember the days off school driving around on the back of council or roading trucks doing sandbagging.

Katarina Leaf-Dobbs
Mark Martini We 'borrowed' a row boat and rowed down Shakespeare Street lol. Ended up helping people evacuate.

Annie Van Looy
The water was over my head in that flood in william st had to swim round to the eagle, Pete ray let me stay there no charge even tho his bar was under water good bugger

Sonia Dando
Whoa what a flood I left Greymouth 1969 for Perth Western Australia can’t remember any being that big before that
Other than at high school we had a tusami warning 1961

Sandra Arnott
It was a good one it’s the year I left and went to Blenheim!

Raylene Cathcart
Sandra Arnott good move..

Jo Evans
I remember that.

Rowena Beaumont
We left in 1989 for Blenheim. We lived in Taylorville so never got flooded

Rebecca Pearson
Alan Pegley remember this!

Rebecca Pearson
We used to have to race up with Dad Alan Pegley from Hokitika to help lift carpet and furniture in the Union, then on to Toyland to help save some of the stock!

Gavin Aldridge
I bit high for the redbands

Lindsay Dowling
That was taken from outside our old house.

Sandra Rooney
We lived opposite in Leomard street but had moved out two years earlier

Alan Pegley
This was the second flood following the one in May. 400 people evacuated from their homes
Jeff Jones
Hang on iI have a bright idea lets build our new library beside a river that FLOODS ????

Neville Chaney
Jeff Jones It's all Global Warming mate.??

Brian McIntyre
Jeff Jones Nelson was thinking of it too

Annie Van Looy
Jeff Jones yip thought the same thing jeff I was in William St by the Union hotel for the 88 floods 5foot of water through the house, it'll happen again one day
Julie Steele
What a flood that was

Sandra Arnott
So true eh way back!

Paul Dumelow
Vikki Lutherus

Tania Tones Lawrence
A tiring time for sure. After the house was cleaned out and dried, redecorating started we slept on an airbed in the lounge for a month ? Lombard St.

Christine Farrell
Remember that 1 of many

Lesley Jean Frogley
No flood wall then,If there is enough rain slips ect to go over now the town would be no more,unless you have enough money to pay the lease and rebuild

Ray Breeze
I guess a flood wall is only as good as it's weakest point would I be correct

Melissa Nicole Glanville-Lawrie
I remember this and the flood sale they had afterwards with all the damaged goods

Sandra May Rooney
Lived across street from this hotel 11 inches through my house.

Alan Beck
Dad said to walk home in the safe, or shallow, bit. I took the road past das Kopp Shop and founded myself proceeding downward in floodwater.

Pam Englefield-Absolum
Global warming! I don’t think,
Sandra May Rooney
Flood wall built since.

Sandra May Rooney
Sorry, wrong flood. I was there in 1970 and another two floods before that one.

Alan Beck
Dad said to walk home in the safe, or shallow, bit. I took the road past das Kopp Shop and founded myself proceeding downward in floodwater.

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