Actual horse power and a bucket on a pulley, or good old fashioned wading through the mud.
They're just a few of the workarounds people are trying in a tiny east coast town split in two after a bridge collapsed during flooding.
The washout on state highway 35 has split the Tokomaru Bay township and left a two metre plus gaping hole in the Mangahauini bridge.
That means kids are separated from school and whānau from much needed supplies. How far away is a fix?
Jaclyn Hankin from Waka Kotahi talks to Lisa Owen.
