Flash floods can occur almost anywhere, and when they hit in the city, the drainage system has difficulty in coping. This boat happened to be in the front yard of a house in the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie in November 1994. It might have proved more useful than the car.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference:
EP/1994/3401/17
Photograph by John Nicholson
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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