{"id":389469,"date":"2026-04-20T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389469\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:59:07","slug":"flooding-in-central-hawkes-bay-wellington-clean-up-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389469\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in central Hawke&#8217;s Bay, Wellington clean-up continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Red weather warnings remain in place for Wellington and Wairarapa this morning, after being hit by torrential rain yesterday morning. A search and rescue operation in Karori continues after a man was reported missing from his flood-hit home.A state of emergency has been declared for the Wellington region. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/19\/states-of-local-emergency-in-whanganui-ohura-as-heavy-rain-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/19\/states-of-local-emergency-in-whanganui-ohura-as-heavy-rain-hits\/\">two states of local emergency<\/a> were declared in the Manawat\u016b-Whanganui region, for the Whanganui District and \u014chura ward, after rain triggered flooding, slips, evacuations and state highway closures overnight.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/player\/newsclip\/landslide-crashes-into-wellington-home-causing-major-damage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/player\/newsclip\/landslide-crashes-into-wellington-home-causing-major-damage\">Landslide crashes into Wellington home causing major damage &#8211; Watch on TVNZ+<\/a>Do you have photos or videos of the weather? Email us at news@tvnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Follow 1News&#8217; live updates below for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to know Red weather warnings remain in place for Wellington and Wairarapa this morning, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201561,134317,201562,201563,111,43,139,69,201564,201565],"class_list":{"0":"post-389469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-april-25","9":"tag-commemorating","10":"tag-fallen-soldiers","11":"tag-lay-red-poppy","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-pay-respect","17":"tag-paying-tribute"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389469","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=389469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}