The clean up is underway after torrential rain and flooding yesterday, with Napier struck by a one in 250-year weather bomb. It was Napier's second-wettest day on record since 1870, with 237mm of rain by late last night when a state of emergency was declared in the city. Power was cut to 3,000 thousand properties, Fire and Emergency received 350 weather-related call outs and there have been several large landslides.
Kathryn is joined by Kazmira Aranui who says there is knee-deep floodwater in Onekawa Hawkes, Malcolm Cox who lives near the landslide on Hospital Hill and Bay reporter Tom Kitchin on Napier Hill.
Napier floodwaters Photo: supplied Jamie Lindsay
