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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Flooding at Pōrangahau, 2004

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Flooding at Pōrangahau, 2004

Severe storms and flooding hit the lower North Island in February 2004. Southern Hawke’s Bay was badly affected, the small coastal town of Pōrangahau worst of all. Most of the settlement was flooded and six families had to be evacuated.

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Hawke's Bay Today

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by Warren Buckland

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Landscape and climate, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24345/flooding-at-porangahau-2004 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.