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 a trip 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.
