Boys Ride Mattress Through Post-Quake Flooded Wellington

  • 8 years ago

A group of boys made the best of a difficult situation, when they turned a plastic mattress into a makeshift raft to float around on floodwaters in Plimmerton, Porirua.Torrential rain has brought flooding to New Zealand’s North Island along with thousands of landslides on slopes disturbed by Monday’s 7.4 magnitude earthquake and powerful aftershocks, according to TVNZ. Credit: Aidan Owen Green via Storyful