It's three years since Westport's devastating floods which left a quarter of the town's homes red or yellow stickered.
Ellen looks back and looks forward.
She says many in the community are still feeling vulnerable and question whether the town is any safer now.
A proposal to build 16km of floodwalls was approved soon after the floods. Nothing has been built yet.
Looking towards the Buller River Bridge on the southern entrance to Westport in the July 2021 flood. Photo: NZDF / supplied
Ellen Curnow is a reporter at Westport News.
