{"id":287496,"date":"2026-02-17T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287496\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:07:08","slug":"jordan-lucks-banks-peninsula-home-flooded-after-torrential-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287496\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Luck\u2019s Banks Peninsula home flooded after torrential rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy partner\u2019s brother lived here before, from 2004 it had never flooded to the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JordanJordan Luck performing at Aotea Square in 2017. The former Exponents singer has lived in Little River for more than a decade. Photo \/ Chris Loufte<\/p>\n

Until now. <\/p>\n

Luck\u2019s treasured music room as well as his laundry have been breached by the floodwaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His home sits below road level but well above the height of State Highway 75, which links Christchurch and Akaroa. <\/p>\n

Flooding and slips have closed SH75, cutting off the picturesque tourist town of Akaroa. <\/p>\n

Banks Peninsula is one of the worst-hit areas and today, more rain is forecast to fall. <\/p>\n

Streets in nearby Christchurch are flooded, with the Heathcote River spilling over its banks in places. <\/p>\n

Before and after images supplied by Luck show the scale of the flooding event, with it swamping the property with a strong flow of floodwater. The sewerage pipe in the centre of both photographs gives a reference for the height of the water.<\/p>\n

\"JordanJordan Luck’s Little River property has been overwhelmed by floodwaters.\"JordanJordan Luck’s Little River property as it normally is \u2013 before the flooding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe water is creating its own new rivers. Some may go through homes on its way, some they will pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck says his local neighbourhood is in touch with each other as they ride it out.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand earlier said \u201caround four people\u201d were rescued from a car stuck in floodwater at the Wairewa Marae in Little River, at around 8.40am. <\/p>\n

They were taken to the local fire station, safe and well. <\/p>\n

Mike Thorpe is a senior journalist for the Herald, based in Christchurch. He has been a broadcast journalist across television and radio for 20 years and joined the Herald in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy partner\u2019s brother lived here before, from 2004 it had never flooded to the house.\u201d Jordan Luck performing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,3471,1396,156,158644,37461,2740,65792,1345,16802,6093,29530,159914,111,139,69,48375,6560,530,66425,6634],"class_list":{"0":"post-287496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-among","10":"tag-banks","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-exponents","13":"tag-flooded","14":"tag-former","15":"tag-frontman","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-jordan","18":"tag-little","19":"tag-luck","20":"tag-lucks","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-peninsula","25":"tag-rain","26":"tag-residents","27":"tag-rivers","28":"tag-torrential"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}