The Fantastics & Grammaristics - Reading Week 5

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Mayor confident flood-prone Christchurch river will not burst its banks

Lianne Dalziel said she had not received any advice that the river was at risk of breaching its banks, even with a high tide expected at 8.30am on Monday. (Action) 

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There was still a significant amount of capacity left in the city’s three new stormwater basins installed along the upper reaches of the Heathcote River, she said. (Noticing) 

He was relieved it was still about a foot from the house after the king tide. On Saturday he had moved ground floor furniture upstairs. (Feeling)

“We were prepared for the ground floor to be inundated.” (Dialogue)

If you need to be on the roads, please drive slowly, particularly through any surface flooding, so that you don’t push water onto people’s properties.  (Punctuation)

“I've lifted all my curtains and moved all my shoes up. [On Sunday] I might move a few other things just as a precaution,” she said. 

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“Also, try and avoid walking or biking through surface flooding as there is a chance it could be contaminated with wastewater,” the spokesperson said. (Dialogue) 

Wahren Hensley’s property in Clarendon Tce, Christchurch, was “completely surrounded” by water on Sunday morning. The level sat just below the raised doorsteps to the house. Hensley, whose home has been flooded three times previously, said the water was building at his property “bloody rapidly”.

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