Torrents

The tail end of tropical cyclone Ita continues to batter New Zealand, and today it's been the South Island's turn to take a beating.

Out here on Banks Peninsula the hills are bleeding water; at the bottom of the garden the Kaituna River races towards Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora, it's flow rising from around 2 cumecs to 43 cumecs in the space of 12 hours. We can hear the boulders in the river rattling around like marbles...

By the sounds of it Christchurch is struggling with surface flooding once more. So much for 'one in one hundred year events'...