Residents are in clean-up mode after severe weather lashed parts of the Rangitikei and Whanganui districts overnight.
Several homes had to be evacuated after torrential rain caused slips and flooding.
Drone video captures the remnants of the severe weather in the Rangitikei District overnight.
Roads were completely submerged in water, several properties flooded, and paddocks turned into running rivers. The water spilled into nearby homes.
"It's gone into our backyard and into our bach, the carpet is all wet through there," one person said.
Several properties in Bulls and Marton were evacuated as a precaution.
MetService says the district has been through a hell of a battering in the past 48 hours.
"In that area around about 50 millimetres fell on the region, and on the ranges up to 90 millimetres," MetService meteorologist Peter Little said.
"It may not sound like a huge amount of rain but because it's already sodden areas, it's a lot of rain."
Many evacuated residents have since returned home thanks to the severe weather easing off, but Rangitkei District Mayor Andy Watson says now comes the huge clean-up.
"It's incredibly devastating for the farms that lose production and the homes that will need to have carpets and other things replaced," he said.
Further north in Whanganui, a number of properties were also flooded and the extreme weather brought down a large tree on top of a major road.
But luckily the outlook has improved there too.
"It could've been much much worse, our district goes through this repeatedly because we run between two rivers," Watson said.
MetService is now warning residents in the east of the North Island to be prepared for similar weather there.
"Heavy rain is forecast over the next two days for the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne so people in those areas need to be ready for more severe weather," Little said.
The North Island is not out of the woods yet.
