Rob and Rhonda Thomas came home to find their Chapel Street house nearly flooded. They had moved to Carisbrook just six weeks earlier. The area got 45 millimetres of rain on August 10.
Why it mattersNew residents can face hidden flood risks they did not know about when they chose where to live.
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