For the second time in just three weeks, Philip Hunt's Bangor Rd property's been completely flooded.
Nearby Black stream burst its banks early on Monday morning - by 10am water inundated Mr Hunt's garage, and turned his driveway into a torrent.
Mr Hunt, volunteer firefighter, and a colleague tried in vein to channel the flood waters away from the house.
"There's so much water and we're trying to salvage things with a shovel and a hammer we need a digger I think," he says.
The Selwyn District Council activated its Emergency Operations Centre at 10am for the second time in less than a month.
"It's a serious event, there's water obviously through people's properties again and with the sand bagging operation that we've got is underway," Selwyn Mayor Sam Broughton says.
By mid-afternoon sand bags were hot commodities in Leeston, the township only just having dried out from the last deluge.
The storm has struck at a bad time for farmers in the Selwyn District with many in the middle of lambing and calving season.
The farmers aren't the only ones who are likely to be left counting the cost. Mr Hunt estimates he had $30,000 of damage in the last flood - he says it's too soon to guess the cost of this one.
"It's really demoralising to be waking up and going through it again," he says.
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