Slips have continued to tear through roads in hillside suburbs of west Auckland, sending cars into the sea and leaving houses teetering on the edge of cliffs.
New residents say the devastation is hard to fathom, while long-term locals say they've never seen anything like it.
On west Auckland's Paturoa Road, a treacherous hillside stretch of Titirangi is teetering on the edge.
"It's not a view you really want when you realise what it means," Titirangi resident Barrie Griffiths told Newshub.
Griffiths' home sits at the top of one of the monster landslides created by the destructive weather.
His new, unwelcome view was created by a slip that's eaten 10 metres out of the front of his section. He only moved in four months ago.
"It's shocking, summarising it, because four months and we might even lose our house, so it's not ideal," Griffiths said.
His section is now less than a metre from a cliff face.
"Our fear was it would just keep taking metres away because you can still see there's still water running down there," Griffiths said.
Just down from Griffiths, the street has almost disappeared.
Parts of Paturoa Rd have quite literally crumbled into the seas. The locals here told Newshub they're used to slips but nothing like this, which has cut off access up the hill.
At the bottom, a car parked on the side of a road was chewed up and spat out as a landslide hurtled towards Titirangi beach.
"Well, we got up this morning and we wondered where our car was and I've just found it down on the beach," Titirangi resident Hannah Winter said.
A stroke of sheer luck was that no one was behind the wheel.
"It's not only affecting us, it's affecting everybody. Our little car is minor compared to what's going on around us," Winter said.
The devastation out in west Auckland is widespread, from the forests of Titirangi, deep into the Waitakere Ranges the city's dams spilling over.
On Otitori Bay Rd a carport and car were ripped from the hillside, smashing into the red-stickered house below. Newshub was told the occupants were home.
The residents made a lucky escape but some who remain now live in fear.
"You just don't know when the changes are going to come, so you can't relax and I think that's what really upsetting all the people on the street, they're just feeling unnerved," Titirangi resident Winnie Charlesworth said.
Del McFarlane-Scott has lived in Titirangi for decades.
She lives opposite Paturoa Rd and was acting as a spotter for friends whose homes are dangerously close to the cliff.
"Never ever have we ever seen anything like this before. It's just quite horrific," McFarlane-Scott said.
A community literally living on the edge.
