Southlanders are coming together with a series of community barbeques following last week’s weather damage.<\/p>\n
About 100 people attended a community barbeque in Drummond yesterday, enabling the community to share their experiences with each other.<\/p>\n
Southland Mayor-elect Rob Scott spoke at the event, while representatives from the Southland Rural Support Trust, Dairy New Zealand and ASB rural also attended.<\/p>\n
Scouts from the Otautau St Andrews Scout Club brought baking to share, having spent recent days supporting elderly in the community.<\/p>\n
Similar barbeques will be held around the region over the coming days.<\/p>\n
Today Woodlands Rugby Club near Invercargill and Riverton Rugby Club will both host barbeques, while tomorrow Tokanui Tavern and Dipton Golf Course will host barbeques.<\/p>\n
They will begin at 5.30pm and run until 8pm, with people invited to “just turn up”.<\/p>\n
It comes as Southlanders continue recovering from the wild wind that caused havoc across the South last Thursday.<\/p>\n
PowerNet chief executive Paul Blue said today 3400 customers in Southland remain without power, alongside 1674 in Otago.<\/p>\n
There are 31 generators that Emergency Management Southland are circulating in the community to support critical infrastructure, dairy sheds and community hubs.<\/p>\n
Emergency Management said the large generator situation was under control, while the need now was for smaller ones for water pumps and generator use.<\/p>\n
There were several other welfare and community hubs providing amenities such as hot showers, power and WiFi.<\/p>\n
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