Nelson flood gallery

Mike and Jenny Ball, foreground, with some of the happy helpers who helped clear away mud from their Allan Street home.

Flooded fields near Glenduan.

Farm house hit by mudslides in the Wainui Inlet, Golden Bay.

A Nile Street East resident cleans up some of the mud from her property.

A house on the edge in Stoke.

Dressed for the occasion. Tim Vincent of Hamilton, left, Neil Dawkins of Nelson, centre, and Wayne Nelson of Kaikoura, right, work together with Arron Flavell of Jae's Kaikoura, background, in an organised clean-up operation at flood damaged 219 Nile Street.

Luxury houses above landslides on Rocks Road.

Luxury houses above landslides on Rocks Road.

Robyn Hulme works on clearing mud from her Nile St sleepout.

Bird's Hill, where the main Takaka to Collingwood road has been swept away.

A car is half-buried in mud in Ligar Bay.

Golden Bay farm manager Kevin Davis as at home with his wife and three sons, fearing for their lives, when a creek burst its banks.

Wainui Bay farmer Mike Robertson surveys the damage. "If you let it get you down, you just turn it into a bigger job than it is.''

The slip on Birds Hill on the Main Road between Takaka and Collingwood.

A slip on Rocks Road.

A slip on Rocks Road.

Jennie Warr of Grove Street helps Dean Merry of Nelson City Council to place sandbags along the street.

Rocks spilled across Whakatu Drive.

A comparison between the normal flow of the Maitai River and the flooded flow.

The damage caused in Liger Bay.

The damage caused in Liger Bay.

Mechanics Tim Eastwood, left, and Scott Bradley of Delta Line in action at the washout and destroyed footpath caused by the heavy rain and flooding on Marsden Valley Road, Nelson.

A road that has become a river in Pohara Valley, Nelson.

Devastation to a Haven Rd property caused by a landslide.

The slip on Birds Hill on the Main Road between Takaka and Collingwood.

Flood waters surround a Golden Bay property.

A local man inspects protective sandbags in Golden Bay.

Slide that has closed Rocks Road after heavy rain caused flooding and slips

Halifax Street East resident Bronwyn Tuck leaves her home with after it was hit by a landslide.

Landslip on Coster St on Wednesday evening

Aniseed Valley resident Dave Phillipps had to walk to work this morning over the slips that closed the Aniseed Valley Rd last night.

A car leaves the Walters Bluff subdivision driving through a landslide.

Rob Ancell leaves his home with his family and dogs during the heavy rain and flooding that hit Nelson.

Halifax Street East resident Rob Ancell attempts to clear a drain as a after a land slide hit his neighbours house during the heavy rain and flooding that hit Nelson.

A home in Ranzau Road East threated by flood water.

Residents of Halifax Street East clear mud from outside a house in the street evacuated after part of a hill slipped onto the house.

The creek by Shetland Place in Richmond.

Cafe on Oxford owner Guy McCracken had a busy day yesterday sandbagging to protect his cafe from flooding that came out of Washbourn Gardens in Richmond.

A Clouston Terrace resident drives a car through flood water near the Maitai River.

The York Stream in Bishopdale - normally a placid, shallow creek - has started to burst its banks and threaten neighbouring properties along the Bishopdale Reserve

The Brook Dam around lunchtime.

Making the most of the floods on the Brightwater School tennis courts.

Residents of Avon Terrace arrange sand bags outside their home as the flooded Maitai River continued to rise on Wednesday night.

Washbourne Gardens, in Richmond, Nelson.

One of the slips on Aniseed Valley Road.

Guy McCraken's cafe in Richmond.

Flooding.

The Maitai River is still high.

Working the dressing gown look in Kakenga Rd, Nelson.

The MetService's rain radar, from early this morning, shows the front moving off the South Island and resting over the North.

Vicki Mathison feed hay to her miniature horses in a flooded paddock on Ranzau Road East.

Senior Nelson City Council staff member Susan Coleman briefs a welfare team on the situation in Golden Bay at control headquarters in Richmond, Wednesday night.

Sergeant Stu Koefoed of Nelson Police, and senior Civil Defence personnel Jim Frater and Roger Ball at tonight's briefing on the flooding situation in Nelson, at the control headquarters in Richmond.

Civil Defence responders Kevin Alderton, Juliet Westbury, Becky Marsay and Matt Dodd with Tasman District Council logistics team member Daryl Kearns (standing, at rear) wait on standby at control headquarters at the Tasman District Council office in Richmond.

The Tahuanui Drive home that was evacuated after a slip came down from Stansell Ave.

Jayden Packer, front left and Kane Laurie run through the vineyard on the corner of The Coastal Highway and Redwood Road.

A pedestrian watches the flood waters from a bridge.

The flood waters surge toward houses.

Flooding on a Nelson street.

The stranded tourists were rescued by emergency services.

A tourist clings to a tree after getting cut off by the water.

Tourists take refuge in trees to escape Nelson flooding.

Tourists cling to a tree after getting cut off by the water.