The wild weather lashing the east coast of the North Island is taking its toll on local residents as they deal with another major event.
The wild weather has seen mud slide through homes and state highways torn apart.
A state of emergency remains in place for Gisborne, Tairawhiti, as rain continues to batter the region, with more forecast overnight.
It's a worrying prospect for local residents, many of whom are now suffering from "rain anxiety".
"Since [Cyclone] Gabrielle, we've slowly been impacted with the land and in the last week, it has just enclosed on our house," Gisborne Resident Janine Fiebig told Newshub.
"The walls are coming in now, and you can see the walls are not surviving anymore."
The punishing rain has literally moved mountains - right into Fiebig's home.
"It's still moving and you're concerned about the people around us and the families that are down below us," Fiebig said.
"It's just heartbreaking to see and to know that there's no coming back to this property."
The wild weather has seen hills in Gisborne so saturated that they can't take any more.
Just a couple of minutes out of the Gisborne CBD, a whole hillside has collapsed nearly two metres into a number of properties. And with kids' toys lying around, you can tell it's families that are being affected by the slip.
Homes that survived two cyclones already this year are now being red-stickered following this latest deluge of rain.
"We were reliving Gabrielle," artist Matahi Brightwell told Newshub.
As roads around Gisborne crumble and with river levels rising again, Brightwell is among thousands feeling the weather anxiety settling in and ready to get out at a moment's notice.
"I haven't slept since yesterday... I can feel it - like a huge depression," Brightwell said.
"We hear one little downpour and we wake up, I check the property... we've only been home four days after the disaster, and our house is nearly completed, so we couldn't re-live another disaster, we couldn't."
And he's not the only one.
In the small town of Te Karaka - just inland from Gisborne - iwi have independently set up evacuation points for the displaced.
"We posted photos of our setup here last night and what it gave for them was reassurance that there was going to be a shelter," Te Karaka community lead Pimia Wehi told Newshub.
"That there was going to be toilet facilities available, that we have lighting here available in the marquee and we have cooking facilities all ready to go."
Wehi said locals use to "love listening to the rain" but now people are anxious.
But now, when the rain falls, the roads do too. The soil saturation is cracking major road networks - sending asphalt plunging to the valley below.
State Highway 2 has been majorly impacted by the latest wild weather. Trees have cracked and the tarmac is still tumbling down the hillside, so it's going to take a long time to get this road back up and running.
"It won't be quick to get all the work done," said Clinton Parsons, a traffic manager from Downer.
The sodden soil is forcing livestock to even higher ground.
"It's not good for anyone. No one can function in this. The soil is over 110 percent saturated," local resident Lucy Bond told Newshub.
"It's like soft porridge... we don't expect this to dry up until summer. We are expecting to see a lot more events like this," local resident Murry Cave added.
Emergency Management Minister Kieran McAnulty said locals are getting fed up with the consistent weather events.
"People are tired and frustrated and I don't blame them," he said.
"Roads are getting impacted again and again. These people can't catch a break."
Further south, central Hawke's Bay has been hit just as hard.
Major roadways have crumbled and State Highway 50 is out of action.
"I think we just need to get our infrastructure and our bridges and our accesses up and running asap because it's just crucifying the rural communities," farmer Mikey Trotter said.
And in more bad news for the region, it doesn't look like the bad weather is going away in a hurry.
"We managed this evening, but now wait for another night of confusion," Brightwell said.
But for some, the damage has already been done.
