When the roads are flooded and Kaeo folk need to go shopping — in this case to stock up on essentials ahead of Cyclone Cook — they don’t get upset. They just leave the car at home and get a lift on someone’s truck through the floodwaters, take a boat, ride a horse, or just walk. As Noble says, ‘‘you gotta go what you gotta do’’.
Kaeo folk beat the floods on foot
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