A man is missing after severe flooding struck New Zealand\u2019s capital, with other Wellington residents sharing their survival stories after record rain hit on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Philip Sutton was looking after a property for his sister in Karori, in Wellington\u2019s west, when a torrent of flood water smashed through it early on Monday, according to local reports<\/a>. Sutton has not been seen since.<\/p>\n A vehicle drives through a flooded road in Wellington, New Zealand. Photograph: Aimee-Jo Clark\/Reuters<\/p>\n Other residents in the city, which is known for its houses perched on hills, have told stories of evading landslides and escaping rising flood waters.<\/p>\n Wellington mayor, Andrew Little, told Radio New Zealand that Wellington<\/a> was drenched by 77 mm (3 inches) of rain in less than an hour, its heaviest rainfall on record.<\/p>\n CJ Koshar told the New Zealand Herald<\/a> he was sleeping when he was woken by a loud rumbling noise coming from the roof.<\/p>\n \u201cSuddenly, a few seconds later, I saw that the cracks are coming out of the wall and the whole wall came out,\u201d he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n Koshar said he tried to hold up the collapsing wall but escaped when he realised his efforts were futile. Photographs inside his two-storey house in Brooklyn showed an entire wall caved in on his bedroom.<\/p>\n