CAZ AND STEVE Novak's family home overlooking the Tasman Sea at Taranaki's Oakura beach took the full force of Cyclone Bola back in March 1988. "The neighbours who saw it said the roof lifted intact, like a handkerchief, and deposited itself elegantlyon the beach," says Caz, sitting in her art studio and gallery at the top of the house. "We were downstairs and had no idea we'd lost our roof until the next morning when we came up here and could see light through the sarking." These days the house, which began life as a fibrolite beach bach, feels as sturdy as a great ship, especially from the elevated studio. Picture windows frame nothing but sea, as if the house were ploughing through the waves.
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