5:08 pm today

Dunedin cut off with properties underwater due to heavy rain

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm today

More properties are underwater and a city is completely cut off - as the rain continues to pummel the lower south island. Flooding, slips and holes forming on SH 1 have made driving trecherous - and impossible in or out of Dunedin, which is expected to remain cut off overnight. People have been told to evacuate their homes in Waikouaiti and homes are flooded in Karitane, both north of Dunedin. The worst is yet to come - Metservice said there will be a second rain peak and a jump intensity. Dunedin Civil Defence Controller Chris Henderson and Dunedin Resident Pauline van der Byl spoke to Lisa Owen.