October 27, 2025 • 43 mins
Andy Muir talks to Andy Dennis, Bruce Eade, Rob Scott, Grant McMaster and Jack Rudolph.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hokinilly Andy
Muley here until two o'clock thanks to Peter's Genetics. Thanks
for your company as we try and look ahead to
a shortened working week. Although that doesn't mean Jack when
you just look at the situation that's unfolded over the
previous five days, especially down here in the South. And
(00:28):
that's the thing. Today we've got Rapscott on the program
South and District Mayor and as well all going to
plan Jack Rudolph out of the Emergency Management South and
Response Team, just as we look ahead to the next
week and try and actually understand what work needs done
now to fix up all this work, I mean infrastructures
down we're looking at what's going on with trees, tree
(00:50):
removal all of a sudden comes into the equation and
it's not going to be a cheap exercise for a
lot of people, but nonetheless but to get through, so
straight into it. Five day four casts brought to you
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this afternoon they're talking rain with snowshowers and breezy westeralies
and are high of nine. Wednesday, cloudy of breezy westerly
seven and twelve. Thursday, light rain developing and Bristol or
westerlies four and fourteen. Friday morning showers of breezy westerlies
one and eleven and Saturday yeeha sunshine with breezy westerlies
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eight and eighteen. Soil temperatures to hand Clinton nine point three,
Harriet eight point five, Dido, Northern Southland, Reverton ten point
four to now eight point six, Winter eight point three
at Woodlands eight point eight. Now it's almost time for
looking at the boys for next season in the rambining
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sense as well. It's coming around out of nowhere and
it's just something to keep in the back of your
mind as well, considering everything else going on the on
at the moment. But the far you rant open days
happening this Thursday, the thirtieth of October from one o'clock
onwards at thirteen eighteen waterhoon Or West Road and Lawrence
with Rodney's, Rodney Texalls and suff Texas on display. Bred
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for mothering ability, LAMD survival growth rates or soil recorded
as well. Take the afternoon off and heaven knows you
need to have a bit of a yarn and catch
up a few people at the five You Ran Open
day happening this Thursday at one o'clock. Bruce Deed is
on the must of this afternoon farming out of Colso.
Now Bruce is still without power, telling us how he's
(02:36):
managing to cope, as is Andy Dennis. Although the other
extreme not about the power, but it's all about the
wet especially out there in the Fjordland basin. Kakas says
it is beyond saturation point. It's almost worse than last year.
And these rainfall numbers just continued to amaze, but unfortunately
not for the right reasons. Rob Scott's Southern District Council
(02:57):
MIAs is on the program, Workers say, talking about what's
been going on on over the previous couple of days
and from a response viewpoint, what's ahead for the rest
of the week. Grant McMaster at a close Friends station
once again he's like Kaka, he's just sick of the
water and like I say, all going to plan Jack
Rudolph and the Environment South and it's not speaking on
behalf of emergency Emergency Management south of the response team there.
(03:20):
So I'll get the hour underway now with Andie Dennis
Andy Dennis farms up at Manapuri in the few of
Them basin and joins us this afternoon in the Sergeant
Dan Farming ground up thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock foods
(03:42):
here and Gore Kaka. Good afternoon. Although it's probably not
too good, truth be known, it's just wet.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, raw, real wet. Yeah that when we dodged all
that one last week. Yeah, because I think that would
have that would have just a bit of broke broc
us really one more thing to do with. But yeah,
know we're just wet. I'd say we're over five hundred
mills since the start of September easily, and yeah, it
just seems to keep coming. So yeah, it's tailing in
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the weekend and she's just their boghole everywhere or old
news and lambs. But yeah, it's see, I think she's
she's letting us down this spring. It's just getting tougher
and tougher. When you think it's got can't any worse, Well,
it gets way worse, doesn't it. So Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
As far as rainfall figures compared to this time, last
year you're above.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, September was really wet last year, and then I
think October has sort of come right, whereas October has
been just as wet as what September was, and probably
it's actually got colder too, So we're right back on
top of well, we're right on top of grass and yeah,
you just hope things start coming right soon. I took
(04:53):
the bow buggy off the tractor at the start of
October and I actually put it on yesterday, and I've
got a bet ten bells of Baaler's left over and
I'm just gonna use it up. But I just run
around and if you think something need defeat, just dribble
away out. Maybe mainly works kettle and if you've bits
and pieces. But no, she's just tricky, Yeah, real tricky.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's almost a case of if you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, like I said, you think it's you think it
can't get worse, and then blow me down. It does
get worse. Yeah, like we had well last Friday, I
was mobbing up for tailing, and the week before last,
I mean, and it blew all day and then we
had thunder that at night. So when we have a
lot of funder and lighting up here, the deer freak out,
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so they go smashing and the fences and create a
lovely friggin mess. So I was driving around on Saturday morning,
the shoot a few put them down and which is
never fun. It's actually a bit very very tough on you,
and then shet up some sheep to go tailing the
next day, and then we did one mob and it
just started starting sideways and we pulled the pin and
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it took another week to get back to doing that job.
While you use it down off the hill and eating
grass and anything, so you just sing. You just can't
seem to win, can you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It started snowing while you were tailing.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, just yeah. But the sun had been out half
and there, you know, like I've got to come all
the way from mater caw Tama and his crew and
you think, oh no, it's clear, skuys, it's let's pull
the trigger. And the time they get here and we
went and then and literally it probably sleated and snowed
for two hours and then the same the sun coming
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out after lunch and it was probably the best of
the week, so we could have keep going. But like
it's so hard to even find a dry spot to
put the lamp pin in all the gateways there's just
a bog hole where they've been walking back with some
Fords looking for a feed. So no, it's she's yeah,
she's tough one. This one's yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So it's not a case of the wind that was
the if that was the problem for you guys on Thursday.
It's just been the continued precipitation.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, no, just poured down.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think we were another one hundred and ten miles
for the week, so a little bit of whind but
nothing to damage. But yeah, like it's just been pouring down.
But that's a Norway cycle on it, like the rain
in the west and windy were so yeah no, yeah,
and then it's noting everywhere today further up country, so
no one's getting a break, that's for sure. Yeah, Like
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we're miles back on last year was good for Like,
we're a lot of lambs around and we're going to
be a long way back from that and probably a
long way back from your average really, So yeah, lamb
price is going to stay high, aren't because there's going
to be a whole lot least of them around when.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're talking to other farmers up there in the basin
a very similar situation to what you're facing.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, yep, no, the same just yeah type of feed. Yeah,
and waiting waiting for things to come right. Really, yeah,
I don't know when correctors a week going, Yeah, it's
it's it's that where it's just ponding on everything, waterline everywhere,
so it's going to take a long time to drain
and try and get some grass on the ground or
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even crop crop for next year.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Really, as far as power issues, have you had anything
to worry about since it's come back on Friday night, No.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's been good. Yeah, Like Tianna sort of got away
from what I think we didn't their pair for two days,
but like the damage in the basin wasn't bad, so
it was just getting the pair returned to the basin.
So yeah, we're we were all back on and it's
been good since. So lucky and lucky in that perspective.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, let's give a shout out to the basin cack
In ninety point four for them. You guys have had
a real turred sandwich to coin a phrase over the
past six weeks or so, and Tiana, especially the duel
in the in its crown for this time of year.
It was going to be the fishing competition canceled. We'll postpone,
i should say, and just going around town there on
Saturday and a lot of amused tourists because up until
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Friday night they couldn't get any petrol or anything to
get out of town. There wasn't hardly anything open. It
was a case of cash being the kesh being king
ultimately and just a lot of confused faces.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh yeah, I did hear that. Yeah, I think there's
probably something you'd think about it. Keep some old handled
petrol diesel bowelsers, wouldn't you, menual onesil creek shafts. Yeah,
something I don't know. It's like, yeah, you're so heavy
reliant on power that when something like that happens that
(09:36):
it can really upset everything. And like we're running around
trying to keep velvet frozen and and not not really
too worried about tourists. But it is what it is,
really Yeah, but no, it's it's the third really really
wet spring the basins heading a row and last year
it affected the lambs. They were a month behind the
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whole way through the seas and like my winter lambs
this year, I took through the store behind well, they
don't catch up there there over winter. So so you
know this is going to impact this whole season again,
which which is the tough one because you know we're
looking at good prices and it would just be good
to have a good season. But that's farming. You know,
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prices are up and you're back on lambs and the
environment doesn't play ball, does it. That's hard get even
think or your ducks lined up in a row. It's impossible, isn't.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Actually, let's finish on a positive. I caught up with
you at the Young Farmers Barkup, will bark off whichever
it was like a few weeks back. Fantastic occasion. Well
done to Harry and the crew there at Tiana Young Farmers.
That's an organization that's really going places at the moment.
And you were helping him see the event as well.
And I think a shout out to Searah Humphreys. I
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hope she's got a good beanie.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I wasn't I supposed to even say it was.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I was just there to judge the dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Actually, yeah, one of one of three, Todd Keviner and
Katie Fraser. I was a very late substitute. I found
out I was doing it at about five o'clock that day.
We've been crutching lambs for a dog troll fundraiser and
went along. But no, it was It's really good just
to see those young farmer farmers clubs going great guns.
(11:19):
There wasn't that long ago. The Tianya one was in
a really bad spot, so it's good to see it
good and people keen and yeah, it was a good event.
It's always like I went along last year with the
kids and we had a blast outstanding refel prizes, So yeah,
I just gave Willie your hand at the end to
give away the refels and we ended up doing a
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few haircuts. So but they made yeah, like a big
she edit to them. I think they made four and
a half grand, might even be more by the end
of it. Don't quote me on it, but it was
over four hours and four and a half grand for
for all on search and rescue, so, which which is
a really important thing because you can imagine the more
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people that are tramping and walking around for you all
in there, the more sort of call out set groups
getting so that money will be very well received. So
good on the Young Farmers Club for like an half
of the community and putting on great events here.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Andy Dennis, we always appreciate your time on the muster.
All the best over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Eh, yeah, well look, surely it can't get worse. We
is a bit of wood to touch now.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think we've covered all the food groups and weather lately, kicker.
Always appreciate your time, Andy Dennis, farming up at Menapouri
and the Sergeant Dan Farming ground out. Thanks for Sergeant
Dan Stock foods based here and Gore. We're away to Kelso.
Next we're going to catch up with Bruce Need. Another
regular correspondent. Brice is having his issue around powers as well.
(12:53):
He tells us about it. Next The Musters on the
Farm brought to you by Southland District Council working together
for a better Southland. Bruce Need farms at Calso and
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joins us This afternoon. Bruce, good afternoon. What is it
day five without power for you?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Five or six or whatever it is, depends when you
start the count I suppose, but yeah, same time as
most people lunch time on thursdays he was gone Burger.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So have the situation out at calso just give people
a bit of an understanding of what it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, well there's been bits and pieces that sort of
seems quite petchy from what I can gather with people.
Harriet got it last night. People over the flat from
us they got it yesterday as well. Some got it
Saturday afternoon. The people will we share their generator with
they got it Saturday afternoon. So there the next road over,
so we were pretty hopeful. There was actually a bucket
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truck out here. Problem on air Road is some big
trees fell over ofss the road and pulled the lines
down on their side of the road and they're still
lying as they fell on Thursday. So yeah, Saturday afternoon,
about six o'clock was actually a bucket truck from Pound
it up there. So shut Up talked to them and
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he said, oh no, they were just sussing it out.
They had a major a bit further down the road.
They had to get sorted and they'd be back tomorrow.
But tomorrow never comes, so you know, we're just running
off generators. Obviously, the Kio sheds the robots got a
diesel generator that kicks in automatically, so it's been running
non stop since Thursday lunchtime and the hearing bone year
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we were shearer or half years and the generator with
a neighbor there, so it was milking three herds of
caress cares there between us for a couple of days
until Saturday afternoon. They got their pair on two of
their shed. So yeah, the genie's just at home there,
parked up outside their kio shed and went back to
sort of normal milking times. But yeah, running off the generator.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So the big concern for you is you don't know
if the powers in those lines that's on the ground.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah, well that's the thing the old key we canned
you attitude. It wouldn't take long to shift the trees
with a tracker and a saw, but the lines are
tangled in it, and I'll put it out there public
service announcement. Nobody should actually go near them and try.
It's very tempting and you think, well, I haven't got
any power. They won't be live, but it's not worth
taking the risk. We don't need to read about that
in the papers. So yeah, so it's very frustrating sitting
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there looking them actually blocked the road to it's a
bit of three fair roads, so the school bus can't
get through. And unfortunately, there was a milk tanker driver
came down the road the other day and it's probably
about two two and a half kg from the turnoff
where the trees are down, and he spent probably a
good hour and a half reversing a milk tanker back
up to where he could get turned around. So it
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was entertaining, but I do feel for the guy at
the same time. So yeah, but why cac others no
power at the school anyway, because the kids are at
home today and up through the valley and that I'm
led to believe there's no pair and a lot of
that up here too.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So well, that gets rid of that rumor over time
about Fontara trucks not having reverse.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah, that's exactly right. They do have reverse. It's not
that truck probably reversed more in that air and a
half than it will in the rest of it's entire
trucking life. But no, I mean it was a hard one.
I mean people just have to have patience in that
because you know, the phones were down, Internet was down,
the good old no communication. You know, like nobody knew
what was happening, and you couldn't actually relay a message
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to anyone. It was any for us with the rts
and the tractors and things like that, but you could
jump onto someone else's channel. But as for ringing through
to anybody, you know, we lost internet, which for the
robots side of things, I don't get any alarms or
anything for any problems and that in the robots with
no Internet, so you could say, oh, yeah, just it's
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all good. But if something had happened and robots had
shut down, I wouldn't know unless I was there, so
I had to be sort of getting up to three
times not just to check him and keep the generator
fueld in that. But you know, there's plenty of plenty
of great stories around, you know that I've just through
people that I've known that through snapchat. You know, herds walking,
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you know, four or five k's down the road to
another shed to be milked and generators being shed. There
was a track to going around west of Totago, probably
done eight or nine sheds, just continually going round. Another
one I heard of always drove to Ashburgh and to
grab a generator drove back and milk doing our thousand
kres through one shed, and then ten minutes after they finish,
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the pair come back on. But you know, it's there's
some good stories out there, and it just goes to
show that the rule heart of helping your fellow men
is still strong.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, good old Murphy's going to a peer out of nowhere.
As far as damage from the wind on your property,
what's it like, No.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
We got away pretty pretty relatively unscared, and he's probably
twelve to fifteen, sort of small a shelled about trees
blowing over, but nothing. You know, some of the you
will have seen pictures and things like that of entire
rows and max and pines that are probably forty year
old just lying on their side, just some majores around.
But we're lucky we didn't seem to cop that. It
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does seem to be hit and miss. So I'm just
sitting here looking at the neighbors and they got a
big rail of gum trees and it's four or five
of them down, but the other twenty standing. And there's
tales of that vice versa where there's one standing and
the rest of them a line. So yeah, it's I
think the big thing was it just happened so fast.
It was probably only twenty minutes, half an hour at
the most, I think here anyway, it was windy. We've
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had a lot of wind obviously of late, but that
was next level and then it just peeded out, and yeah,
I'd done a lot of damage in a short time.
I think the thing that caught everybody out was it's
just it wasn't just why Khaki, for argument's sake of
Edendale or to a tapriy. It was basically a toago
south and wide and that's what's you know, got us
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all foul hooked because the wasn't enough year to go
around for a major like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So what's production been like over the past ten days.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, we haven't really changed in that sense because we
had the generator. We've had a generator for the robots
obviously from day one, so that was just business as
usual and attract the generator. With us having winter milked
in years gone by, we were always susceptible to losing powder,
snow or something, so we've always had one on hand.
So basically the production's been no different. It was just
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the fact that ten becaus getting here, which Luckily they
sort of were being able to get in and get
out and get bits and pieces, and the milk was
at the right temperature for them, so that hasn't obviously
been the case everywhere. But yeah, for us personally on farm,
either thing's probably just taken over as normal. Apart from
the fact that it's been done by generators.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I suppose there saving grace is the fact you do
have cell phone coverage.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, well that's the thing we do now. It was
pretty hit and missy for the first couple of days trading.
I did have an error with one of the robots
and trying to talk to one of the texts they
couldn't like they can usually log in from wherever they
are over the internet and the diagnose and fix the problem,
but obviously no internet, and then trying to talk to
them over the phone there's the old standard Hello either
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can you hear me, I've got you, and then it
would go dead. So it was quite frustrating from everyone
one of you. So I'm sure it wasn't the only
one that had that problem.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Just finally, other areas over their experiencing issues regarding power. Still,
I believe like some green veil is still being affected.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, no, I think you know, the further you get
back into the hills there with that mile flat things
like that. I've heard guy where Clyde Vale Wrinkle Barn.
It's pretty widespread still from what I'm hearing. And you know,
it's frustrating it as it is that you don't have power,
Like I'm very frustrated about seeing what's lying down the
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road from us and you can't do anything about it.
But you know, there's so many other people in the
same boat and we, unfortunately, we just have to weigh
their turn. I think the majority of cows are being
milked now, well, I'm sure probably majority of cares are
being milked on generators or through the main system again now,
so that was the major one, and it's just most
people have got jennies for houses and things like that
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to get through now. So yeah, it's the novel has
worn off. I will admit the generator rolling outside the
house twenty four to seven to keep the fridges and
freezers going. But yeah, the day will come, will flick
the swicks and the lights will come back on.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I didn't think it would be this long, but here
we are good on your brace always appreciate your time
and all the best and hopefully that powers up and
running sooner than later.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, no, I thoughts everyone else that's gone through the
same situation. It will come back on. And you know,
there's only so many hours in the day and so
many powers always out there doing it. So I'm certainly
sure they're not bloody, they're not slacking. They'll be doing
the best they can, so yeah, just hanging their team
will make it through.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
This is a muster on Hakanui. Rob Scott is Southern
District Mayor and joins us Rob, Good afternoon, getting an
update and what's been going on over the past twenty
four hours. How have things been?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, Goson and Andy, it's then, I guess you could
call it a productive twenty four hours in terms of
more and more of our towns and properties getting power connected,
which I can almost feel the relief in the air
the power starts to come on in some places, but
also acknowledging that we still have a few places that
are still not not connected yet. So yeah, it's tracking
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relatively well.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Has powernack giving an indication at all by chance as
to when they hope to have everything up and running
again or is that just like a needle in a haystack.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's pretty much a needle in a haystack. And when
you see some of the photos of even where where
the trees are sort of wrapped up in the power lines,
that they've taken them down, and so it's quite hard
for them to predict how long it's going to kind
of take to get power in some of those areas.
But they've been going a lot faster than I thought
they would. And yeah, I mean it's tracking really well.
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And I bumped into some of the team a couple
of days ago on the ground when I was traveling around,
and yeah, they're a positive and I think they were
appreciative of the community support of them as well, Like
no one. I mean there's a few people give them
a bit of a hard time, but on the whole, Yeah,
people are accepting of the situation and can see how
hard they're working.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Absolutely a shout out to the team for powering it
and everybody who's out there doing what they're doing at
the moment right now. Regarding this government support, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars has been allocated so far. Is
that like South and real Support Trust funding and the like.
So how would this be allocated.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah, we're working out how to sort of spread that
out in the best way. And the Royal Support Trust
have been awesome. I've just come off the call with
each year and I think that's the model on how
to run an event like this with that group pulling
together all of the kind of state holds and all
of the interested parties around around South and just doing
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it in such a coordinated way. It's it's a really
effective way to do stuff. So yeah, definitely getting out
there to support them and their good work. And they're
getting out and doing sort of barbecues as when and
drumming tonight. So just putting on some food for our
people that have been well and truly tested. So it'll
be nice to have a bit of networking and share
a bit of food over the up and coming few
(24:26):
days around some of our towns.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell, he's been on the ground over
the last couple of days. What's he had to say
about the situation looking ahead?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, he's been good. So he came down on the
Hurk and I met with him and yeah, he gets that.
He's he's the right man for that job and Australia,
as the Minister goes, he cares, he gets it and
he's sort of more than willing to help out with
whatever's needed as well in terms of getting generators down
if we need to get more stuff on the Hurk,
he's been openly willing to help out.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So that's great.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
We've got that connection up into Wellington.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now as far as Defence Force personnel on the ground
in the South, what's happening there.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, So they went out last night and they were
going into some of the more affected remote areas and
doing sort of wealthy checks and doing a bit of
recon and having a chat to the people.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So that's that's quite good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
And I think they've been out again today. So we've
got it's a huge district when you when you look
at it and you try and reach all of the
areas to touch on people best where our communities have
been so great Again about last night and I was
popping into seas for people and people were beating me
to it and there was cars pulling up to the
drive and they said, I just want to check on here.
Haven't heard from her in a while, so just making sure.
(25:40):
So all of that kind of community well being is
kind of taking care of itself, which is which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Regarding the drinking water situation, are there any concerns Slugs
of Ohai and one term are in the firing line recently.
Where are we at there?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I just want to We've shouted out to Pound.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I just want to do a shout out to Downer.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Those starts have been working like absolute troopers quite off
and through the night as well. So I've just come
off the phone to our water and waste team and
Winton has been giving us a couple of problems over
the last twelve hours or so, but that's yeah, that's
the power has actually just come on for our pumps
and everything there as well, so that's looking a lot
better and things are tracking really well. So I think
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we've got all of our parts up and running well
there now. And that hasn't happened by chances, that's happened
with some people working down hard. So yeah, again, just
shouting out to down As in the start at EA
STC as well, they've worked around the clock to keep
things turning over.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
As far as the situation regarding the snow, for goodness sake,
is there any parts of the South that seemed to
have been affected in more ways than one.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
I couldn't believe it this morning and I looked out
the window and saw the snow flakes coming down. I said,
mother Nature, give us a break, and for the for
the team out there trying to do the lines, that
they don't need that coming down as well. But it's
I think it's further up. The country's been hit a
bit harder there. So I'm sitting in sunshine at the moment.
I'm just down by Hedgehopes, so I'm kind of hoping
that the rest of southands in the same. And we're
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up to seven degrees, which is seven more than it
was when I left home this morning, so it's hopefully
tracking in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
See our phone towers, who is up to eighteen outs
not that many days ago. Are we up and running
again with sales services?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, I think there's just just a handful now to
come back online. And yeah, that's definitely going to help
because when you haven't got comms, it makes things a
lot harder. So it's good to see those all coming
back online. And it's been a bit of a reminder
of how connected we out of our phones and how
much we need them, our phones and our electricity, the
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two things that we've taken for granted.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I think, Yeah, was that something that Minister Mitchell was
made aware of regarding the connectivity and the lack of
it in the southern region.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, yeah, we saw him in on that. I mean,
he's got a good briefing of the whole situation, and
I think the fact that the whole region got taken
out all at once has been quite a lesson.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Then.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I think we need to have a good sit down
at the end of this and work out how to
better appear the next time this kind of thing happens.
And luckily we've had no one who I'm really hoping
that there's no injuries with any other firewood work that's
happening going forward. And I think people need to recognize
that trees can have a mind of their own sometimes
and pop back up, and yeah, there's there's going to
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be a bit of a bit of extra work going
and the recovery piece. So hopefully we managed to get
through this whole event injury free. But yeah, well with
no lack of connection and connectivity, and if people were
injured and stuff. It would have a whole different kind
of picture. So we need to make sure we're better
prepared for next time, particularly if it's the earthquake or
something like that where we might not have the road
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connections that we've got now.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
To just finally, rob how long is this state of
emergency going to last in the South.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It will last till till we're comfortable to get rid
of it. It's quite interesting. I don't have the power
to do anything yet with that. I'm going to get
those tomorrow. So yeah, it's I think the if I've
got any saying that, we'll keep it under under and
we'll probably go into a recovery phase at some stage,
but we need to keep it there as long as
we need to make sure that we've got the right resources.
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And I mean the farmers are needing there. They've been
sharing generators around and as the powers coming on, is
more and more generators freeing up, so we can actually
start to leave some at the farms to loosen that load.
And stock water is a real issue at the moment too,
and we've been focusing on the sheds, but getting water
to the stock as a focus as well, so we
can start to actually spread those generators out. And while
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there's those kind of needs going on, we've got animal wealthy,
we've got people wealth here. We need to make sure
that we're meeting those needs properly.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Rob's got South and District. May always appreciate your time
on the muster, and it's been a pretty hictic four
or five days for yourself. Keep up the great job
everybody involved.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Thanks Sandy.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Rus It's got Southern District Mayor. This is the muster.
Grant Disaster mac Master's up next from the edges of
kloseper And Station, which is near Lake Waking Tippo. Thanks
to Abby Rural, we catch up once again with Grant
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Disaster McMaster, who is based at kloseper And Station, not
far off Lake Waka Tippoo. A disaster. Good afternoon. We've
had the wind down here and some rain and some snow,
but you're seriously over rain by the sounds of that
were you're based.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah, we've had good after any good after everybody, And
I'll make you sitting about twenty meters from the lake
at the moment. I've just been over to over to
hog and gully Raids to go through the watch the
lakes and the paddocks here and shift them kettle and
some hog its around and then I've had to pick
up a k and m off a made of mine
that lives an airtown because the Milk Lake road is
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out because it's been washed out, and can't get in there,
and can't get up the back way from up Lake
to Stuke, which is a road from my place up
through the back of the station. So managed to get
to get a can am. But there's fever to snow
last night, and so I'm just be interesting to see
what the road's like in the make late. But one
thing I've bad. I've got this thing on a trailer,
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so I've got to take it off and get in
and see what's happening. But no, we've had two hundred
and fifty mills of rain over the last ten days.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
So, yeah, that's enough to make a glass eye weep,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's amn of rain today. It's absurd, Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
And so it's sitting that the temperature now is sitting
about just getting up. It's five degrees. I did some
soil took some saw readings a couple of days ago,
and it was still sitting at eight point five. But
I don't know it'll be now well, I'll probably it
won't be any worse because the water is it's just
absolutely waterlog so no, the Yeah, So it's snow last
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night right down just off the lake level and as
I say, quite a lot over there town through Mulligan's Road,
the back right underneath Cornett Peak. It's probably about five
inches of snow there. It's it's sifting away now a bit.
But looking up on the skifield at Corney it's you know,
there's more. There's more snow then and they had most
of the winter. So and the forecasters are looking a
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little bit better Andy, but it would need.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
To forecasters looking good into next week. I had a
quick text with Phil Duncan this morning, quick catch up,
and he did say the forecast is going to improve.
So how it's got to it?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
It has so with all this rain. The road that
our main access into into Moat Lake, which is you know,
the center of the place is up off the main
road and public road right out, but it's had there's
been so much rain coming off the hill and now
it's at Gravel Road and it's you know, there's springs
and it's just like current's running down eat side of it.
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So it gets to Lake Kirkpatrick, and Lake Patrick's a
small lake. It's probably just about a kay around it.
The road goes and but we can't at the cattle
stop there the road is washed away and and it's
just gone. It just bogg So there's been a road
closed sign up since last Saturday, and people see don't
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seem to be able to read and and this is
they aren't. They aren't all tourists either, I can assure
you that. So there must be a lot of robineckers,
but tell them go and get through there. And my
neighbor got a wheel digger to go through to Ben Loman,
which is beyond me with road stops, because he's had
massive slips come down and he can't get out back
to his place. And Jones and the digger on Saturday
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pulled out about full vehicles that were stuck, you know,
had ignored the road close sign. So so that's the
reason I've had to get the can am to get
to get through through around Lake Around through Lake Kpatrick,
we have a road, a track that goes around the
other side of that. So I'll be to get through there.
But you know the people that come out and don't
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listen to weather warnings, it's you can you know, you
can't help stupidity, can you. People put up these signs
for a reason, and and everybody said bloody right to
so they know what's going on. And a lady when
I was going out the other day and because I've
been able to get through, someone was a key. We
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were coming towards me and at the four whill drive
and I just slowed down and I said, I said,
I said, you look like somebody that should be able
to read. And she said, I know, we're just going
to get some risk, going to get some water.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Well see a.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Paint of that.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
But you know, it's it's the way it goes, and
hopefully there's you know, they put this, they put these
signs up for a reason. And you know, while it's
wet here and it's not best for lambing and carving
and feed and what have you, you know, it's it's
it's nothing compared to what all their friends and the
Target and South and Guy Koran throughout other parts of
the country going through. So I'm you know, hearts go
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out to them and and you know, because that's not
just the farming fraternity, it's you know, it's the the
old and the people that are vulnerable that you know,
haven't had electricity or food. And that's what's good about
the country and Providence Province. We were all mucking together
and help out. So you know, we're pretty up here.
I don't want you to think I'm complaining. I'm just
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saying it is. But you know we've got nothing to
worry about compared to the rest of the country and
it's going to be a bloody all out for a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Just coincidentally as well. Before we wrap up, Hell is
lambing going. How far through would you be?
Speaker 6 (35:33):
We'll be halfway through and you know, like when I
was through on On on Sunday, you know there's still
lambs are poking about and not seeing a lot of
dead lambs lying around, and you know, you can get
a pretty good look at you know, glassing the hell
and what have you don't get in and poke around
amongst them. But on have fatness paddocks. You know, we've
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we've lost a few there, but not as not as
bad as I've you know, I thought it could have been.
But as I say, that's farming and that's nature. But
our thoughts to everyone on the target and that are
really struggling.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good under Grant always could always appreciate your thoughts all
the best with your issues up there with the weather too, mate.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
We'll talk next week.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Grant McMaster thanks to ARBI Rural. Before we wrap up
all going to plan and we're going to catch up
with Jack Rudolf and the Environment Southland slot now of
course Jack is the emergency controller on behalf of Emergency
Management Selfland, the response team there and before we wrap
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up the Master for a Tuesday afternoon and the Environment
Selfland Slot which is sponsored by Environment Southland, we have
Jack Rudolf, Emergency Controller at Emergency Emergency Management Southland on
behalf of the response team. Jack, good afternoon and welcome
to the muster. And what has been a pretty hectic
last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yes's a good afternoon right.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Firstly, Jack, the latest on the situation down here in
the South. It's rapidly changing all the time. Where about
so y at now?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, so key parieties still are in place, restoring powers,
power to lifelines, telecommunication, water and waste water, addressing community
and animal wealthare needs and the efficient distribution and tracking
of generators, especially to critical services like healthcare, supermarkets, fuel stations,
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water treatment and our dairy sector. We're focusing on restoring
lifelines and helping generate a coordination. It's a big recovery
as you can fully well aware and power and communications
are ongoing Southern thanks to all that all you've been doing,
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and as we're extuly this weather event together and we
know you're you know, sharing generators. People are sharing generators,
opening their dairy sheds to neighbors and making sure animals
and are milked and watered to these challenging conditions.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, generators is a big thing for a lot of people, Jacks.
So their situations under control.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
It is under control, and it's you know that the
need for them as slowly reducing as power comes back on. Yes.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Now, as far as rural communities and the farmers that
have been greatly affected, and there are a lot of them,
mist be honest, as far as the work is going
on there to support them, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
But for our farmers, our wealthy have been hard out
and we've had out reached the last couple of days,
including today. Amenity Management Southern we continue to work with
our farmers to identify generating needs for milking sheds. Generators
are and are being distributed at the you know throughout
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the last few days since since it's started communicating. You know,
we're communicating with our Gary supply company and then and
the power companies to ensure that we keep restoring power.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
So we are working very close in fact that have
MPI and now the Real Trust they're now center here,
are working closely with our farmers.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah, it's great you bring out the point about rural
communities banding together, Jack, and this is the perfect example
of the Southern spirit.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yes, yes, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Now for people who haven't had anybody in contact with
them regarding issues around water, around power and the likes, Jack,
how do they get assistance?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yes, they can contact us to our zero eight hundred number,
sorry eight hundred and eight nine one to seven. We
do encourage them to keep trying or use the email
which is Welfare at Cdsouth dot New Zealand. You know,
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if they don't get through to us. Initially, our phones
have been inundated. As you can appreciate the please that
don't give up on us. And either use the email
line as well. The lines are open from nine am
to four point thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Just from your perspective, Jack, regarding Emergency Management Southland, how
have you filed the last four or five days?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, hey, listen, you know, losing powers is a huge
I guess you know, blow to people's households in order
and affect fix them in a number of ways. And
you know we have been communicating with power Net and
the numbers have come down. We're down to around four
thousand now today, you know, from over twelve thousand, and
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you know that has a huge effect on our people
out there. As soon as powers restored, of course, and
they can try and get to some sort of normality.
But we have our friends who work in an order
is to ensure not any power, but some sort of
normality is restored.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Is absolutely Jack had Jack read off Emergency Management Self
and Response Team, Emergency Controller. Thanks very much for your
time on the muster and all the best for the
next four or five days ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
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Speaker 1 (41:38):
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you a chuck or Heaven knows, we need it at
the moment. My name's Andy Miller. This has been the
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HAWKINWI for updates about the situation. All the best out
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there this afternoon, Stay warm, see tomorrow.
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hokinilly Andy
Muley here until two o'clock thanks to Peter's Genetics. Thanks
for your company as we try and look ahead to
a shortened working week. Although that doesn't mean Jack when
you just look at the situation that's unfolded over the
previous five days, especially down here in the South. And
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that's the thing. Today we've got Rapscott on the program
South and District Mayor and as well all going to
plan Jack Rudolph out of the Emergency Management South and
Response Team, just as we look ahead to the next
week and try and actually understand what work needs done
now to fix up all this work, I mean infrastructures
down we're looking at what's going on with trees, tree
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removal all of a sudden comes into the equation and
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this afternoon they're talking rain with snowshowers and breezy westeralies
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seven and twelve. Thursday, light rain developing and Bristol or
westerlies four and fourteen. Friday morning showers of breezy westerlies
one and eleven and Saturday yeeha sunshine with breezy westerlies
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eight and eighteen. Soil temperatures to hand Clinton nine point three,
Harriet eight point five, Dido, Northern Southland, Reverton ten point
four to now eight point six, Winter eight point three
at Woodlands eight point eight. Now it's almost time for
looking at the boys for next season in the rambining
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sense as well. It's coming around out of nowhere and
it's just something to keep in the back of your
mind as well, considering everything else going on the on
at the moment. But the far you rant open days
happening this Thursday, the thirtieth of October from one o'clock
onwards at thirteen eighteen waterhoon Or West Road and Lawrence
with Rodney's, Rodney Texalls and suff Texas on display. Bred
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for mothering ability, LAMD survival growth rates or soil recorded
as well. Take the afternoon off and heaven knows you
need to have a bit of a yarn and catch
up a few people at the five You Ran Open
day happening this Thursday at one o'clock. Bruce Deed is
on the must of this afternoon farming out of Colso.
Now Bruce is still without power, telling us how he's
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managing to cope, as is Andy Dennis. Although the other
extreme not about the power, but it's all about the
wet especially out there in the Fjordland basin. Kakas says
it is beyond saturation point. It's almost worse than last year.
And these rainfall numbers just continued to amaze, but unfortunately
not for the right reasons. Rob Scott's Southern District Council
(02:57):
MIAs is on the program, Workers say, talking about what's
been going on on over the previous couple of days
and from a response viewpoint, what's ahead for the rest
of the week. Grant McMaster at a close Friends station
once again he's like Kaka, he's just sick of the
water and like I say, all going to plan Jack
Rudolph and the Environment South and it's not speaking on
behalf of emergency Emergency Management south of the response team there.
(03:20):
So I'll get the hour underway now with Andie Dennis
Andy Dennis farms up at Manapuri in the few of
Them basin and joins us this afternoon in the Sergeant
Dan Farming ground up thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock foods
(03:42):
here and Gore Kaka. Good afternoon. Although it's probably not
too good, truth be known, it's just wet.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, raw, real wet. Yeah that when we dodged all
that one last week. Yeah, because I think that would
have that would have just a bit of broke broc
us really one more thing to do with. But yeah,
know we're just wet. I'd say we're over five hundred
mills since the start of September easily, and yeah, it
just seems to keep coming. So yeah, it's tailing in
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the weekend and she's just their boghole everywhere or old
news and lambs. But yeah, it's see, I think she's
she's letting us down this spring. It's just getting tougher
and tougher. When you think it's got can't any worse, Well,
it gets way worse, doesn't it. So Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
As far as rainfall figures compared to this time, last
year you're above.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, September was really wet last year, and then I
think October has sort of come right, whereas October has
been just as wet as what September was, and probably
it's actually got colder too, So we're right back on
top of well, we're right on top of grass and yeah,
you just hope things start coming right soon. I took
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the bow buggy off the tractor at the start of
October and I actually put it on yesterday, and I've
got a bet ten bells of Baaler's left over and
I'm just gonna use it up. But I just run
around and if you think something need defeat, just dribble
away out. Maybe mainly works kettle and if you've bits
and pieces. But no, she's just tricky, Yeah, real tricky.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's almost a case of if you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, like I said, you think it's you think it
can't get worse, and then blow me down. It does
get worse. Yeah, like we had well last Friday, I
was mobbing up for tailing, and the week before last,
I mean, and it blew all day and then we
had thunder that at night. So when we have a
lot of funder and lighting up here, the deer freak out,
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so they go smashing and the fences and create a
lovely friggin mess. So I was driving around on Saturday morning,
the shoot a few put them down and which is
never fun. It's actually a bit very very tough on you,
and then shet up some sheep to go tailing the
next day, and then we did one mob and it
just started starting sideways and we pulled the pin and
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it took another week to get back to doing that job.
While you use it down off the hill and eating
grass and anything, so you just sing. You just can't
seem to win, can you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It started snowing while you were tailing.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, just yeah. But the sun had been out half
and there, you know, like I've got to come all
the way from mater caw Tama and his crew and
you think, oh no, it's clear, skuys, it's let's pull
the trigger. And the time they get here and we
went and then and literally it probably sleated and snowed
for two hours and then the same the sun coming
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out after lunch and it was probably the best of
the week, so we could have keep going. But like
it's so hard to even find a dry spot to
put the lamp pin in all the gateways there's just
a bog hole where they've been walking back with some
Fords looking for a feed. So no, it's she's yeah,
she's tough one. This one's yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So it's not a case of the wind that was
the if that was the problem for you guys on Thursday.
It's just been the continued precipitation.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, no, just poured down.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think we were another one hundred and ten miles
for the week, so a little bit of whind but
nothing to damage. But yeah, like it's just been pouring down.
But that's a Norway cycle on it, like the rain
in the west and windy were so yeah no, yeah,
and then it's noting everywhere today further up country, so
no one's getting a break, that's for sure. Yeah, Like
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we're miles back on last year was good for Like,
we're a lot of lambs around and we're going to
be a long way back from that and probably a
long way back from your average really, So yeah, lamb
price is going to stay high, aren't because there's going
to be a whole lot least of them around when.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're talking to other farmers up there in the basin
a very similar situation to what you're facing.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, yep, no, the same just yeah type of feed. Yeah,
and waiting waiting for things to come right. Really, yeah,
I don't know when correctors a week going, Yeah, it's
it's it's that where it's just ponding on everything, waterline everywhere,
so it's going to take a long time to drain
and try and get some grass on the ground or
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even crop crop for next year.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Really, as far as power issues, have you had anything
to worry about since it's come back on Friday night, No.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's been good. Yeah, Like Tianna sort of got away
from what I think we didn't their pair for two days,
but like the damage in the basin wasn't bad, so
it was just getting the pair returned to the basin.
So yeah, we're we were all back on and it's
been good since. So lucky and lucky in that perspective.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, let's give a shout out to the basin cack
In ninety point four for them. You guys have had
a real turred sandwich to coin a phrase over the
past six weeks or so, and Tiana, especially the duel
in the in its crown for this time of year.
It was going to be the fishing competition canceled. We'll postpone,
i should say, and just going around town there on
Saturday and a lot of amused tourists because up until
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Friday night they couldn't get any petrol or anything to
get out of town. There wasn't hardly anything open. It
was a case of cash being the kesh being king
ultimately and just a lot of confused faces.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh yeah, I did hear that. Yeah, I think there's
probably something you'd think about it. Keep some old handled
petrol diesel bowelsers, wouldn't you, menual onesil creek shafts. Yeah,
something I don't know. It's like, yeah, you're so heavy
reliant on power that when something like that happens that
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it can really upset everything. And like we're running around
trying to keep velvet frozen and and not not really
too worried about tourists. But it is what it is,
really Yeah, but no, it's it's the third really really
wet spring the basins heading a row and last year
it affected the lambs. They were a month behind the
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whole way through the seas and like my winter lambs
this year, I took through the store behind well, they
don't catch up there there over winter. So so you
know this is going to impact this whole season again,
which which is the tough one because you know we're
looking at good prices and it would just be good
to have a good season. But that's farming. You know,
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prices are up and you're back on lambs and the
environment doesn't play ball, does it. That's hard get even
think or your ducks lined up in a row. It's impossible, isn't.
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Actually, let's finish on a positive. I caught up with
you at the Young Farmers Barkup, will bark off whichever
it was like a few weeks back. Fantastic occasion. Well
done to Harry and the crew there at Tiana Young Farmers.
That's an organization that's really going places at the moment.
And you were helping him see the event as well.
And I think a shout out to Searah Humphreys. I
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hope she's got a good beanie.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I wasn't I supposed to even say it was.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I was just there to judge the dogs.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Actually, yeah, one of one of three, Todd Keviner and
Katie Fraser. I was a very late substitute. I found
out I was doing it at about five o'clock that day.
We've been crutching lambs for a dog troll fundraiser and
went along. But no, it was It's really good just
to see those young farmer farmers clubs going great guns.
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There wasn't that long ago. The Tianya one was in
a really bad spot, so it's good to see it
good and people keen and yeah, it was a good event.
It's always like I went along last year with the
kids and we had a blast outstanding refel prizes, So yeah,
I just gave Willie your hand at the end to
give away the refels and we ended up doing a
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few haircuts. So but they made yeah, like a big
she edit to them. I think they made four and
a half grand, might even be more by the end
of it. Don't quote me on it, but it was
over four hours and four and a half grand for
for all on search and rescue, so, which which is
a really important thing because you can imagine the more
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people that are tramping and walking around for you all
in there, the more sort of call out set groups
getting so that money will be very well received. So
good on the Young Farmers Club for like an half
of the community and putting on great events here.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Andy Dennis, we always appreciate your time on the muster.
All the best over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Eh, yeah, well look, surely it can't get worse. We
is a bit of wood to touch now.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I think we've covered all the food groups and weather lately, kicker.
Always appreciate your time, Andy Dennis, farming up at Menapouri
and the Sergeant Dan Farming ground out. Thanks for Sergeant
Dan Stock foods based here and Gore. We're away to Kelso.
Next we're going to catch up with Bruce Need. Another
regular correspondent. Brice is having his issue around powers as well.
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He tells us about it. Next The Musters on the
Farm brought to you by Southland District Council working together
for a better Southland. Bruce Need farms at Calso and
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joins us This afternoon. Bruce, good afternoon. What is it
day five without power for you?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Five or six or whatever it is, depends when you
start the count I suppose, but yeah, same time as
most people lunch time on thursdays he was gone Burger.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So have the situation out at calso just give people
a bit of an understanding of what it's like.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, well there's been bits and pieces that sort of
seems quite petchy from what I can gather with people.
Harriet got it last night. People over the flat from
us they got it yesterday as well. Some got it
Saturday afternoon. The people will we share their generator with
they got it Saturday afternoon. So there the next road over,
so we were pretty hopeful. There was actually a bucket
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truck out here. Problem on air Road is some big
trees fell over ofss the road and pulled the lines
down on their side of the road and they're still
lying as they fell on Thursday. So yeah, Saturday afternoon,
about six o'clock was actually a bucket truck from Pound
it up there. So shut Up talked to them and
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he said, oh no, they were just sussing it out.
They had a major a bit further down the road.
They had to get sorted and they'd be back tomorrow.
But tomorrow never comes, so you know, we're just running
off generators. Obviously, the Kio sheds the robots got a
diesel generator that kicks in automatically, so it's been running
non stop since Thursday lunchtime and the hearing bone year
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we were shearer or half years and the generator with
a neighbor there, so it was milking three herds of
caress cares there between us for a couple of days
until Saturday afternoon. They got their pair on two of
their shed. So yeah, the genie's just at home there,
parked up outside their kio shed and went back to
sort of normal milking times. But yeah, running off the generator.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So the big concern for you is you don't know
if the powers in those lines that's on the ground.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah, well that's the thing the old key we canned
you attitude. It wouldn't take long to shift the trees
with a tracker and a saw, but the lines are
tangled in it, and I'll put it out there public
service announcement. Nobody should actually go near them and try.
It's very tempting and you think, well, I haven't got
any power. They won't be live, but it's not worth
taking the risk. We don't need to read about that
in the papers. So yeah, so it's very frustrating sitting
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there looking them actually blocked the road to it's a
bit of three fair roads, so the school bus can't
get through. And unfortunately, there was a milk tanker driver
came down the road the other day and it's probably
about two two and a half kg from the turnoff
where the trees are down, and he spent probably a
good hour and a half reversing a milk tanker back
up to where he could get turned around. So it
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was entertaining, but I do feel for the guy at
the same time. So yeah, but why cac others no
power at the school anyway, because the kids are at
home today and up through the valley and that I'm
led to believe there's no pair and a lot of
that up here too.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
So well, that gets rid of that rumor over time
about Fontara trucks not having reverse.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah, that's exactly right. They do have reverse. It's not
that truck probably reversed more in that air and a
half than it will in the rest of it's entire
trucking life. But no, I mean it was a hard one.
I mean people just have to have patience in that
because you know, the phones were down, Internet was down,
the good old no communication. You know, like nobody knew
what was happening, and you couldn't actually relay a message
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to anyone. It was any for us with the rts
and the tractors and things like that, but you could
jump onto someone else's channel. But as for ringing through
to anybody, you know, we lost internet, which for the
robots side of things, I don't get any alarms or
anything for any problems and that in the robots with
no Internet, so you could say, oh, yeah, just it's
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all good. But if something had happened and robots had
shut down, I wouldn't know unless I was there, so
I had to be sort of getting up to three
times not just to check him and keep the generator
fueld in that. But you know, there's plenty of plenty
of great stories around, you know that I've just through
people that I've known that through snapchat. You know, herds walking,
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you know, four or five k's down the road to
another shed to be milked and generators being shed. There
was a track to going around west of Totago, probably
done eight or nine sheds, just continually going round. Another
one I heard of always drove to Ashburgh and to
grab a generator drove back and milk doing our thousand
kres through one shed, and then ten minutes after they finish,
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the pair come back on. But you know, it's there's
some good stories out there, and it just goes to
show that the rule heart of helping your fellow men
is still strong.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, good old Murphy's going to a peer out of nowhere.
As far as damage from the wind on your property,
what's it like, No.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
We got away pretty pretty relatively unscared, and he's probably
twelve to fifteen, sort of small a shelled about trees
blowing over, but nothing. You know, some of the you
will have seen pictures and things like that of entire
rows and max and pines that are probably forty year
old just lying on their side, just some majores around.
But we're lucky we didn't seem to cop that. It
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does seem to be hit and miss. So I'm just
sitting here looking at the neighbors and they got a
big rail of gum trees and it's four or five
of them down, but the other twenty standing. And there's
tales of that vice versa where there's one standing and
the rest of them a line. So yeah, it's I
think the big thing was it just happened so fast.
It was probably only twenty minutes, half an hour at
the most, I think here anyway, it was windy. We've
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had a lot of wind obviously of late, but that
was next level and then it just peeded out, and yeah,
I'd done a lot of damage in a short time.
I think the thing that caught everybody out was it's
just it wasn't just why Khaki, for argument's sake of
Edendale or to a tapriy. It was basically a toago
south and wide and that's what's you know, got us
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all foul hooked because the wasn't enough year to go
around for a major like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So what's production been like over the past ten days.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, we haven't really changed in that sense because we
had the generator. We've had a generator for the robots
obviously from day one, so that was just business as
usual and attract the generator. With us having winter milked
in years gone by, we were always susceptible to losing powder,
snow or something, so we've always had one on hand.
So basically the production's been no different. It was just
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the fact that ten becaus getting here, which Luckily they
sort of were being able to get in and get
out and get bits and pieces, and the milk was
at the right temperature for them, so that hasn't obviously
been the case everywhere. But yeah, for us personally on farm,
either thing's probably just taken over as normal. Apart from
the fact that it's been done by generators.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I suppose there saving grace is the fact you do
have cell phone coverage.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, well that's the thing we do now. It was
pretty hit and missy for the first couple of days trading.
I did have an error with one of the robots
and trying to talk to one of the texts they
couldn't like they can usually log in from wherever they
are over the internet and the diagnose and fix the problem,
but obviously no internet, and then trying to talk to
them over the phone there's the old standard Hello either
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can you hear me, I've got you, and then it
would go dead. So it was quite frustrating from everyone
one of you. So I'm sure it wasn't the only
one that had that problem.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Just finally, other areas over their experiencing issues regarding power. Still,
I believe like some green veil is still being affected.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, no, I think you know, the further you get
back into the hills there with that mile flat things
like that. I've heard guy where Clyde Vale Wrinkle Barn.
It's pretty widespread still from what I'm hearing. And you know,
it's frustrating it as it is that you don't have power,
Like I'm very frustrated about seeing what's lying down the
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road from us and you can't do anything about it.
But you know, there's so many other people in the
same boat and we, unfortunately, we just have to weigh
their turn. I think the majority of cows are being
milked now, well, I'm sure probably majority of cares are
being milked on generators or through the main system again now,
so that was the major one, and it's just most
people have got jennies for houses and things like that
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to get through now. So yeah, it's the novel has
worn off. I will admit the generator rolling outside the
house twenty four to seven to keep the fridges and
freezers going. But yeah, the day will come, will flick
the swicks and the lights will come back on.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I didn't think it would be this long, but here
we are good on your brace always appreciate your time
and all the best and hopefully that powers up and
running sooner than later.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, no, I thoughts everyone else that's gone through the
same situation. It will come back on. And you know,
there's only so many hours in the day and so
many powers always out there doing it. So I'm certainly
sure they're not bloody, they're not slacking. They'll be doing
the best they can, so yeah, just hanging their team
will make it through.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
This is a muster on Hakanui. Rob Scott is Southern
District Mayor and joins us Rob, Good afternoon, getting an
update and what's been going on over the past twenty
four hours. How have things been?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, Goson and Andy, it's then, I guess you could
call it a productive twenty four hours in terms of
more and more of our towns and properties getting power connected,
which I can almost feel the relief in the air
the power starts to come on in some places, but
also acknowledging that we still have a few places that
are still not not connected yet. So yeah, it's tracking
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relatively well.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Has powernack giving an indication at all by chance as
to when they hope to have everything up and running
again or is that just like a needle in a haystack.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's pretty much a needle in a haystack. And when
you see some of the photos of even where where
the trees are sort of wrapped up in the power lines,
that they've taken them down, and so it's quite hard
for them to predict how long it's going to kind
of take to get power in some of those areas.
But they've been going a lot faster than I thought
they would. And yeah, I mean it's tracking really well.
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And I bumped into some of the team a couple
of days ago on the ground when I was traveling around,
and yeah, they're a positive and I think they were
appreciative of the community support of them as well, Like
no one. I mean there's a few people give them
a bit of a hard time, but on the whole, Yeah,
people are accepting of the situation and can see how
hard they're working.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Absolutely a shout out to the team for powering it
and everybody who's out there doing what they're doing at
the moment right now. Regarding this government support, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars has been allocated so far. Is
that like South and real Support Trust funding and the like.
So how would this be allocated.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah, we're working out how to sort of spread that
out in the best way. And the Royal Support Trust
have been awesome. I've just come off the call with
each year and I think that's the model on how
to run an event like this with that group pulling
together all of the kind of state holds and all
of the interested parties around around South and just doing
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it in such a coordinated way. It's it's a really
effective way to do stuff. So yeah, definitely getting out
there to support them and their good work. And they're
getting out and doing sort of barbecues as when and
drumming tonight. So just putting on some food for our
people that have been well and truly tested. So it'll
be nice to have a bit of networking and share
a bit of food over the up and coming few
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days around some of our towns.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell, he's been on the ground over
the last couple of days. What's he had to say
about the situation looking ahead?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, he's been good. So he came down on the
Hurk and I met with him and yeah, he gets that.
He's he's the right man for that job and Australia,
as the Minister goes, he cares, he gets it and
he's sort of more than willing to help out with
whatever's needed as well in terms of getting generators down
if we need to get more stuff on the Hurk,
he's been openly willing to help out.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So that's great.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
We've got that connection up into Wellington.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now as far as Defence Force personnel on the ground
in the South, what's happening there.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, So they went out last night and they were
going into some of the more affected remote areas and
doing sort of wealthy checks and doing a bit of
recon and having a chat to the people.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So that's that's quite good.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
And I think they've been out again today. So we've
got it's a huge district when you when you look
at it and you try and reach all of the
areas to touch on people best where our communities have
been so great Again about last night and I was
popping into seas for people and people were beating me
to it and there was cars pulling up to the
drive and they said, I just want to check on here.
Haven't heard from her in a while, so just making sure.
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So all of that kind of community well being is
kind of taking care of itself, which is which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Regarding the drinking water situation, are there any concerns Slugs
of Ohai and one term are in the firing line recently.
Where are we at there?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I just want to We've shouted out to Pound.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I just want to do a shout out to Downer.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Those starts have been working like absolute troopers quite off
and through the night as well. So I've just come
off the phone to our water and waste team and
Winton has been giving us a couple of problems over
the last twelve hours or so, but that's yeah, that's
the power has actually just come on for our pumps
and everything there as well, so that's looking a lot
better and things are tracking really well. So I think
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we've got all of our parts up and running well
there now. And that hasn't happened by chances, that's happened
with some people working down hard. So yeah, again, just
shouting out to down As in the start at EA
STC as well, they've worked around the clock to keep
things turning over.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
As far as the situation regarding the snow, for goodness sake,
is there any parts of the South that seemed to
have been affected in more ways than one.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
I couldn't believe it this morning and I looked out
the window and saw the snow flakes coming down. I said,
mother Nature, give us a break, and for the for
the team out there trying to do the lines, that
they don't need that coming down as well. But it's
I think it's further up. The country's been hit a
bit harder there. So I'm sitting in sunshine at the moment.
I'm just down by Hedgehopes, so I'm kind of hoping
that the rest of southands in the same. And we're
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up to seven degrees, which is seven more than it
was when I left home this morning, so it's hopefully
tracking in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
See our phone towers, who is up to eighteen outs
not that many days ago. Are we up and running
again with sales services?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yeah, I think there's just just a handful now to
come back online. And yeah, that's definitely going to help
because when you haven't got comms, it makes things a
lot harder. So it's good to see those all coming
back online. And it's been a bit of a reminder
of how connected we out of our phones and how
much we need them, our phones and our electricity, the
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two things that we've taken for granted.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I think, Yeah, was that something that Minister Mitchell was
made aware of regarding the connectivity and the lack of
it in the southern region.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, yeah, we saw him in on that. I mean,
he's got a good briefing of the whole situation, and
I think the fact that the whole region got taken
out all at once has been quite a lesson.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Then.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I think we need to have a good sit down
at the end of this and work out how to
better appear the next time this kind of thing happens.
And luckily we've had no one who I'm really hoping
that there's no injuries with any other firewood work that's
happening going forward. And I think people need to recognize
that trees can have a mind of their own sometimes
and pop back up, and yeah, there's there's going to
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be a bit of a bit of extra work going
and the recovery piece. So hopefully we managed to get
through this whole event injury free. But yeah, well with
no lack of connection and connectivity, and if people were
injured and stuff. It would have a whole different kind
of picture. So we need to make sure we're better
prepared for next time, particularly if it's the earthquake or
something like that where we might not have the road
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connections that we've got now.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
To just finally, rob how long is this state of
emergency going to last in the South.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
It will last till till we're comfortable to get rid
of it. It's quite interesting. I don't have the power
to do anything yet with that. I'm going to get
those tomorrow. So yeah, it's I think the if I've
got any saying that, we'll keep it under under and
we'll probably go into a recovery phase at some stage,
but we need to keep it there as long as
we need to make sure that we've got the right resources.
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And I mean the farmers are needing there. They've been
sharing generators around and as the powers coming on, is
more and more generators freeing up, so we can actually
start to leave some at the farms to loosen that load.
And stock water is a real issue at the moment too,
and we've been focusing on the sheds, but getting water
to the stock as a focus as well, so we
can start to actually spread those generators out. And while
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there's those kind of needs going on, we've got animal wealthy,
we've got people wealth here. We need to make sure
that we're meeting those needs properly.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Rob's got South and District. May always appreciate your time
on the muster, and it's been a pretty hictic four
or five days for yourself. Keep up the great job
everybody involved.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Thanks Sandy.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Rus It's got Southern District Mayor. This is the muster.
Grant Disaster mac Master's up next from the edges of
kloseper And Station, which is near Lake Waking Tippo. Thanks
to Abby Rural, we catch up once again with Grant
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Disaster McMaster, who is based at kloseper And Station, not
far off Lake Waka Tippoo. A disaster. Good afternoon. We've
had the wind down here and some rain and some snow,
but you're seriously over rain by the sounds of that
were you're based.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Yeah, we've had good after any good after everybody, And
I'll make you sitting about twenty meters from the lake
at the moment. I've just been over to over to
hog and gully Raids to go through the watch the
lakes and the paddocks here and shift them kettle and
some hog its around and then I've had to pick
up a k and m off a made of mine
that lives an airtown because the Milk Lake road is
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out because it's been washed out, and can't get in there,
and can't get up the back way from up Lake
to Stuke, which is a road from my place up
through the back of the station. So managed to get
to get a can am. But there's fever to snow
last night, and so I'm just be interesting to see
what the road's like in the make late. But one
thing I've bad. I've got this thing on a trailer,
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so I've got to take it off and get in
and see what's happening. But no, we've had two hundred
and fifty mills of rain over the last ten days.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
So, yeah, that's enough to make a glass eye weep,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's amn of rain today. It's absurd, Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
And so it's sitting that the temperature now is sitting
about just getting up. It's five degrees. I did some
soil took some saw readings a couple of days ago,
and it was still sitting at eight point five. But
I don't know it'll be now well, I'll probably it
won't be any worse because the water is it's just
absolutely waterlog so no, the Yeah, So it's snow last
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night right down just off the lake level and as
I say, quite a lot over there town through Mulligan's Road,
the back right underneath Cornett Peak. It's probably about five
inches of snow there. It's it's sifting away now a bit.
But looking up on the skifield at Corney it's you know,
there's more. There's more snow then and they had most
of the winter. So and the forecasters are looking a
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little bit better Andy, but it would need.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
To forecasters looking good into next week. I had a
quick text with Phil Duncan this morning, quick catch up,
and he did say the forecast is going to improve.
So how it's got to it?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
It has so with all this rain. The road that
our main access into into Moat Lake, which is you know,
the center of the place is up off the main
road and public road right out, but it's had there's
been so much rain coming off the hill and now
it's at Gravel Road and it's you know, there's springs
and it's just like current's running down eat side of it.
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So it gets to Lake Kirkpatrick, and Lake Patrick's a
small lake. It's probably just about a kay around it.
The road goes and but we can't at the cattle
stop there the road is washed away and and it's
just gone. It just bogg So there's been a road
closed sign up since last Saturday, and people see don't
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seem to be able to read and and this is
they aren't. They aren't all tourists either, I can assure
you that. So there must be a lot of robineckers,
but tell them go and get through there. And my
neighbor got a wheel digger to go through to Ben Loman,
which is beyond me with road stops, because he's had
massive slips come down and he can't get out back
to his place. And Jones and the digger on Saturday
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pulled out about full vehicles that were stuck, you know,
had ignored the road close sign. So so that's the
reason I've had to get the can am to get
to get through through around Lake Around through Lake Kpatrick,
we have a road, a track that goes around the
other side of that. So I'll be to get through there.
But you know the people that come out and don't
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listen to weather warnings, it's you can you know, you
can't help stupidity, can you. People put up these signs
for a reason, and and everybody said bloody right to
so they know what's going on. And a lady when
I was going out the other day and because I've
been able to get through, someone was a key. We
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were coming towards me and at the four whill drive
and I just slowed down and I said, I said,
I said, you look like somebody that should be able
to read. And she said, I know, we're just going
to get some risk, going to get some water.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Well see a.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Paint of that.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
But you know, it's it's the way it goes, and
hopefully there's you know, they put this, they put these
signs up for a reason. And you know, while it's
wet here and it's not best for lambing and carving
and feed and what have you, you know, it's it's
it's nothing compared to what all their friends and the
Target and South and Guy Koran throughout other parts of
the country going through. So I'm you know, hearts go
(35:00):
out to them and and you know, because that's not
just the farming fraternity, it's you know, it's the the
old and the people that are vulnerable that you know,
haven't had electricity or food. And that's what's good about
the country and Providence Province. We were all mucking together
and help out. So you know, we're pretty up here.
I don't want you to think I'm complaining. I'm just
(35:20):
saying it is. But you know we've got nothing to
worry about compared to the rest of the country and
it's going to be a bloody all out for a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Just coincidentally as well. Before we wrap up, Hell is
lambing going. How far through would you be?
Speaker 6 (35:33):
We'll be halfway through and you know, like when I
was through on On on Sunday, you know there's still
lambs are poking about and not seeing a lot of
dead lambs lying around, and you know, you can get
a pretty good look at you know, glassing the hell
and what have you don't get in and poke around
amongst them. But on have fatness paddocks. You know, we've
(35:55):
we've lost a few there, but not as not as
bad as I've you know, I thought it could have been.
But as I say, that's farming and that's nature. But
our thoughts to everyone on the target and that are
really struggling.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good under Grant always could always appreciate your thoughts all
the best with your issues up there with the weather too, mate.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
We'll talk next week.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Grant McMaster thanks to ARBI Rural. Before we wrap up
all going to plan and we're going to catch up
with Jack Rudolf and the Environment Southland slot now of
course Jack is the emergency controller on behalf of Emergency
Management Selfland, the response team there and before we wrap
(36:42):
up the Master for a Tuesday afternoon and the Environment
Selfland Slot which is sponsored by Environment Southland, we have
Jack Rudolf, Emergency Controller at Emergency Emergency Management Southland on
behalf of the response team. Jack, good afternoon and welcome
to the muster. And what has been a pretty hectic
last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yes's a good afternoon right.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Firstly, Jack, the latest on the situation down here in
the South. It's rapidly changing all the time. Where about
so y at now?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, so key parieties still are in place, restoring powers,
power to lifelines, telecommunication, water and waste water, addressing community
and animal wealthare needs and the efficient distribution and tracking
of generators, especially to critical services like healthcare, supermarkets, fuel stations,
(37:36):
water treatment and our dairy sector. We're focusing on restoring
lifelines and helping generate a coordination. It's a big recovery
as you can fully well aware and power and communications
are ongoing Southern thanks to all that all you've been doing,
(37:59):
and as we're extuly this weather event together and we
know you're you know, sharing generators. People are sharing generators,
opening their dairy sheds to neighbors and making sure animals
and are milked and watered to these challenging conditions.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, generators is a big thing for a lot of people, Jacks.
So their situations under control.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
It is under control, and it's you know that the
need for them as slowly reducing as power comes back on. Yes.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Now, as far as rural communities and the farmers that
have been greatly affected, and there are a lot of them,
mist be honest, as far as the work is going
on there to support them, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
But for our farmers, our wealthy have been hard out
and we've had out reached the last couple of days,
including today. Amenity Management Southern we continue to work with
our farmers to identify generating needs for milking sheds. Generators
are and are being distributed at the you know throughout
(39:04):
the last few days since since it's started communicating. You know,
we're communicating with our Gary supply company and then and
the power companies to ensure that we keep restoring power.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
So we are working very close in fact that have
MPI and now the Real Trust they're now center here,
are working closely with our farmers.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah, it's great you bring out the point about rural
communities banding together, Jack, and this is the perfect example
of the Southern spirit.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yes, yes, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Now for people who haven't had anybody in contact with
them regarding issues around water, around power and the likes, Jack,
how do they get assistance?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yes, they can contact us to our zero eight hundred number,
sorry eight hundred and eight nine one to seven. We
do encourage them to keep trying or use the email
which is Welfare at Cdsouth dot New Zealand. You know,
(40:12):
if they don't get through to us. Initially, our phones
have been inundated. As you can appreciate the please that
don't give up on us. And either use the email
line as well. The lines are open from nine am
to four point thirty pm.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Just from your perspective, Jack, regarding Emergency Management Southland, how
have you filed the last four or five days?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, hey, listen, you know, losing powers is a huge
I guess you know, blow to people's households in order
and affect fix them in a number of ways. And
you know we have been communicating with power Net and
the numbers have come down. We're down to around four
thousand now today, you know, from over twelve thousand, and
(41:00):
you know that has a huge effect on our people
out there. As soon as powers restored, of course, and
they can try and get to some sort of normality.
But we have our friends who work in an order
is to ensure not any power, but some sort of
normality is restored.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Is absolutely Jack had Jack read off Emergency Management Self
and Response Team, Emergency Controller. Thanks very much for your
time on the muster and all the best for the
next four or five days ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data Working to help
the livestock farmer. We need a laugh. Right here we go.
A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and
left it on the table. To my dear wife, you'll
surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being
fifty four years old, can no longer satisfy. I'm very
happy with you, and I value you as a good wife. Therefore,
after reading this letter, I hope that you won't wrongly
(42:01):
interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening
with my eighteen year old secretary at the hotel. Please
don't be upset. I'll be home before midnight. When the
man came home later that night, he found the following
letter on the dining room table. My dear husband, I
received your letter, and thank you for your honesty about
my being fifty four years old. I would like to
take this opportunity to remind you that you also are
(42:21):
fifty four. As you know, I'm a mass teacher at
a local college. I would like to inform you that
while you read this, I will be at the Marriott
Hotel with Michael, one of my students. He's young, virile, and,
like your secretary, is eighteen, but as a successful businessman
who is an excellent knowledge of mass you will understand that,
as though it may appear that we are in the
same situation, there is one math difference. Eighteen goes into
(42:44):
fifty four a lot more than fifty four goes into eighteen. Therefore,
I won't be home until sometime tomorrow. Hopefully that gave
you a chuck or Heaven knows, we need it at
the moment. My name's Andy Miller. This has been the
muster on Hocknow he thinks that Peterson continue listening to
HAWKINWI for updates about the situation. All the best out
(43:04):
there this afternoon, Stay warm, see tomorrow.
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