RED WARNING FLOODING - Westport - Buller River in 100yr flood by drone

The mighty Buller River in mega 100 year flood.
Drone Mavic Air 2 S, flown not above 9 metres asl and shielded by higher objects.
By 6pm on Saturday, almost half of the residents in the West Coast town of Westport had been evacuated in what Buller mayor Jamie Cleine called “an evolving situation”.
Cleine said just over 2000 of the town’s roughly 4500 residents have had to evacuate their homes.
About 8:30pm on Saturday, an alert was sent to residents in Westport by Civil Defence saying those that had not yet evacuated should shelter in place.
Lisa Gregory, who was working in the Emergency Operations Centre, popped back to check on her Gladstone St property on Saturday afternoon, but like many in the area, knee-high water meant she was unable to get inside.
“Not being able to get home will present some challenges,” she said. “Like finding temporary accommodation with a large dog.”
While she was concerned about the damage to her home, she was more concerned about her neighbours as one was elderly and the other had young kids.
Emergency and rescue staff were kept busy not only helping people evacuate flood stricken areas, but also rescuing people from the floodwaters, and clearing blocked roads.
From Stuff.co.nz

[@SageRosemaryTime]

Some genius level thinking and engineering has gone into the construction of the Buller bridge. It's standing against that water power and used by traffic ! Great post . thank you .

[@R580NZ]

Love the helicopter soundtrack or does your drone blades really sound that good :) Great capture of the water force, some intriguing waves there.

[@geoffmackley]

Hi Raymond, well its either the natural sound of what I am filming or the chopper sound, I dont really know which is better, if I was filming with a traditional camera from a chopper, it would be the chopper sound that would be recorded with the video. :-)

[@sjbechet1111]

@@geoffmackley So it's not a chopper then, and couldn't have been because the guys with Mavic drones put them out of business. :-)

[@kohimaramarogers2754]

OMG thats crazee

[@SueMead]

I'd love to see further up country. Closer to Hawk's Crag would make interesting footage. I'm wondering how the Grey River is coping.

[@geoffmackley]

Id love to get there ! Tomorrow :-)

[@SueMead]

@@geoffmackley Do what you can do but do it safely. Thanks for your efforts. They're very much appreciated from this once West Coast resident.

[@dawnnelson6127]

This is terrible and scary

[@lindor1695]

Where is this??

[@Whateverhappened_to_Fay_Wray]

Westport NZ

[@craigperry7376]

Eye opening footage. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

[@geoffmackley]

Yr welcome Craig

[@ingermimi]

Having used google I now know this is on South Island in New Zealand. Looks like being an enormous flooding area, similar to the flooding just now in Belgium and Netherlands.

[@lesmondk3376]

yes you are right this is the buller river at westport the rivers around here are very swift a nice place to visit the south island is bigger than England and has just under a million people living there so there is heaps of space i go 4 wheel driving down there every year it’s great hundreds of trails

[@andrewdunne1735]

A grand drop of water going to waste again !

[@er.ernawati.radar.orari.50]

Geo larung saji