Wineti and Arana McDonnell know the drill.
They were 6 and 11 when they first helped clean up their parents' flooded Whangaehu home in 2004.
Yesterday, they were doing it for the fourth time. Eleven years on, the boys still remember 2004. They even remember exactly where they were when the Chronicle visited then.
The weekend's flooding was the second worst of the four in the Rangitikei settlement in the past decade, the McDonnells reckon.
And for Mike McDonnell, the latest flood could be the end of his time in Whangaehu.