Metservice forecasts that the rain will ease over Christchurch today, as residents asses the extent of flood damage, and start to clean up.
Slips, school closures, and widespread surface flooding hit across the city yesterday, with some locals saying it's the worst they've ever seen.
It plunged Canterbury into the wettest July on record, with a third of the annual rain falling in a month.
Tessa Guest reports.
