COPING WITH A FLOOD
Busy Week-End For Station 2ZA
HE week-end before last, Manawatu’s biggest flood for many years became Station 2ZA’s first E.P.S. assignment. Long after midnight on the Sunday the station carried on with the job of maintaining communications with isolated areas and _ broadcasting flood reports. It became evident on the Sunday afternoon that the heavy rains of the preceding 24 hours would mean serious flooding. Hour by hour,.2ZA reported developments, keeping in touch with the Manawatu River Board and warning settlers in threatened districts. . Everywhere slips and washouts were making roads dangerous or impossible, and the Automobile Association and 2ZA combined to broadcast a series of up-to-the-minute warnings. Usually 2ZA closes at 10 p.m., but on this occasion it catried on with E.P.S. status, and did not go off the air until the gauge treading of the height of the Manawatu was anfiounced as "steady at 19 feet 3 inches," when there was every reason
to believe that the flood had reached its climax and would get no worse. The following morning the station was on the air again at 5.30 o’clock. Evetywhere throughout the Manawatu people had been stranded, some having spent a wet and unhappy night with flood water lapping waist-deep inside their houses. First duty was to call out the transport service of the E.P.S. and the Women’s Auxiliary. A broadcast appeal for more cars soon resulted in 200 motorists offering their services During the. morning further warnings were broadcast, being still very necessary in view of the rising atid falling river levels. It was obvious, in fact, that the whole of the Manawatu must have been keeping an anxious ear to 2ZA. After a last check on the river level, final road reports, instructions to school children, to whom the flood brought an unexpected holiday, and an assurance that the worst was over, the station signed off for the morning at 9.20. ee EEE RS Pe ee ae ee N ae. we te a a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 99, 16 May 1941, Page 10
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332COPING WITH A FLOOD New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 99, 16 May 1941, Page 10
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