Remembering 40 years after flood

Main: Point Flood 40 organising chairman and former volunteer firefighter John Cross. Inset: A helicopter flies by while a family watches on from their roof. A bridge in Cave is consumed by the raging flood water. PHOTOS: CONNOR HALEY/SUPPLIED Learning from the past and looking to the future are some of the key messages of an event to mark the 40th anniversary of one of South Canterbury’s most devastating floods.