A commuter heading home on State Highway 1 narrowly avoided a major slip, and saw another narrowly miss hitting a truck south of Wellington.
Roofer Alex Perkins was sent home from work in Plimmerton late morning.
But his usual 40-minute commute to Otaki took him four hours, after slips and flooding blocked much of SH1.
He was lucky to get through.
A slip just south of Whenua Tapu cemetery, between Porirua and Pukerua Bay, took out four lanes of SH1, leaving just enough space on the southbound berm for Perkins to get through.