Rain may have eased, but Southland is still on alert with flooding in many parts and roads still closed.
There is now a region-wide state of emergency.
There have been evacuations in Wallacetown, to the west of Invercargill this afternoon.
Council staff in Gore having been laying sandbags near the Mataura River, which is expected to peak later tonight.
For the latest, Emergency Management Southland Group Controller Simon Mapp speaks to Lisa Owen.
