As huge boulders started rolling down the hill towards their house, Auckland woman Leanne McMillan heard her husband’s voice telling her to do one thing - run.
She and her husband, Peter McNally, had just been watching the end of the 6pm news when they realised they were in trouble.
“Boulders started coming down the hill and one smashed into our house,” McMillan told Newsroom.
“There was an enormous crash and Peter just said: ‘Run. Grab [the dog] Archie and run’. Then, basically, the whole back of the hillside came down and smashed into the back of our house.
“The trees and everything smashed - all the windows - and boulders were still coming down.”