A very wet weekend

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Sun, 30 May 2010
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Raymond Burleigh and son Alex Burleigh (5) paddle in their back yard in Milton. The ducks in the foreground are decoys. Photo by Amanda Burleigh. Several streets in Milton were covered. ODT photo by Stephen Jaquiery. Cows on the outskirts of Milton. ODT photo by Stephen Jaquiery. No speeding motorists as SH1 is closed at the south end of Milton. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Southern Steel netballers Emma Moynihan and Jade Topia make their way tthrough Milton flooding to Dunedin for Sunday night's match against the Tactix. NZPA photo. A house at Clarksville. ODT photo by Stephen Jaquiery. Red Cross trainees were evacuated in the early hours of Saturday morning after a landslip demolished part of the Berwick camp. ODT photo by Stephen Jaquiery. Marco Baguley fishes his 'private lake' in Allanton. Photo by Sandra Baguley. Spectators on the Taieri River bridge at Outram. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. A Taieri farm shed. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Taieri River SH1 bridge. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Steve McClelland of Rural Fire stops traffic at Waihola. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Neville and Sue Maunder walk their dogs at Long Beach Domain. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Len Hannah and Michele Culpan at Long Beach. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. David Keen looks at a slip that blocked the entrance to Long Beach. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Mary Allison checks out her neighbour's property at Long Beach. ODT photo by Peter McIntosh. Long Beach locals use their own equipment, including a tractor, to clear the road. Photo by Rachel Thorne. Traffic banked up on SH1 at Big Kuri Creek, south of Oamaru, for about six hours, with no detour. ODT photo by Sally Rae. Ducks play at Logan Park about Noon today. Photo by Hedwig Keek. The Water of Leith as full as it ever gets, viewed from the Forth St bridge at noon today. Photo by Hedwig Keek. This photograph was taken from the South Bridge, Milton, looking downstream. It is normally possible to jump across this stream. Photo by Martin Taylor.
 

A selection of photos by our photographers and readers of the flooding on Saturday. Prints of the ODT photos are available from otagoimages.co.nz.

• Full story on the weekend's flooding in Monday's Otago Daily Times

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