Ingenious scarfies save flat from flooding / Jack Cranston via ODT
A group of quick-thinking Dunedin students saved their flat from being inundated with water by putting together a makeshift water course to redirect a torrent about to enter their back door.
Flat member Jack Cranston said when they got home to their Park St house about 2pm today from atrip into town water was rushing into the back of their section from a neighbouring tennis court.
"It was just pouring down into our backyard.
"It was over ankle deep, it was ridiculous," Cranston said.
The six flat members quickly worked out a way to stop it from rushing in through the flat's back door, getting bricks and tiles out of the shed to create a makeshift water course which redirected the water around the house down a bank and on to a road.