Tomorrow will mark a year since many West Aucklanders were fleeing their homes as a month's worth of rain fell across the city in less than an hour.
Some were able to stay with family or friends, others lost everything, turning to pop-up emergency evacuation centres where they stayed for weeks before finding somewhere to live.
Today families, volunteers and councillors gathered at former evacuation centre - the Hub West in Henderson - to reconnect and reflect.
Louise Ternouth reports.
