Power is still out to many rural South Island properties.

Just under six thousand are still cut off in Clutha and Southland, where States of Emergency continue.

More than three-thousand weather-related insurance claims have been lodged so far.

Federated Farmers Southland President Jason Herrick told Kerre Woodham that, 'people were helping one another and I'll tell you what, I'm hearing some stories out there of some real unsung heroes.'

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