{"id":388721,"date":"2026-04-20T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:45:09","slug":"flash-floods-hit-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388721\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods hit New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several schools have closed and some people have been moved to safer areas due to floods in New Zealand&#8217;s capital city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heavy rain and flash flooding has drenched Wellington, causing the government to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage online shows vehicles submerged in flooded streets, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flash floods are floods that happens very quickly in low-lying land, and they&#8217;re usually caused by very heavy rain, or when water can&#8217;t be absorbed quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wellington was soaked with a record 77mm (3in) of rain in less than an hour on Monday, said its mayor Andrew Little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several schools have closed and some people have been moved to safer areas due to floods in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-388721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388721","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=388721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}