West Auckland residents are still counting the cost of a rain-wrecked summer weeks after devastating weather.
It's a month since the big rain, and Cyclone Gabrielle has gone too.
But at TeriAnne Martin's gutted west Auckland rental, the clean-up has been painstaking, and it's not over yet.
"In face, I look good, I look fine, but there are days where you sit there and you think, 'Oh my god, this is really the reality of my life now'," Ranui resident TeriAnne Martin said.
Her ruined possessions litter the berm, and she's having to leave her Ranui rental with little left.
Items like clothes and bedding are ruined and are being used as makeshift sandbags to try and stop consecutive torrents.
"We don't have insurance, most of us can't afford it. And you think it might not happen to you but in reality, it does happen," Martin said.
A family rental unliveable, a whanau now split and living across three separate homes.
"At this moment we are homeless, we're hoping to find a place - fingers crossed. I've been looking since the first time we had our floods, but hey, everyone's in the same boat [and] I'm just happy we're breathing today," she told Newshub.
Even after the unprecedented rain a month ago and Cyclone Gabrielle, this remains a common sight in Auckland's west and some frankly feel forgotten.
Graeme Lepper's Ranui rental property was described as a sitting duck when it comes to such flood events.
"West Auckland is west Auckland and we're basically last in line for everything," he said.
His property was lucky to survive Cyclone Gabrielle after January's unprecedented rain.
"New gib, had to pull soggy bats out of the walls, had to take tiles off the floor, pull the bath, the kitchen out, [the] toilet," he told Newshub.
All around west Auckland are signs of a changing climate and communities caught out.
There are pulverised white picket fences and skips dotted down driveways.
Many cameras, politicians and the authorities have moved on, but it's a battle for those left behind.
