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Footage of the flooding in Gwahwamun - Tuesday

Incredible photo taken from plane of the localised rain

Stormy Seoul

Not a great start to the Chuseok holiday here. Rain started late last night and I was woken at around 9am to the sound of extremely heavy rain on the roof. This rain continued the entire day getting heavier and heavier. Up to nearly 290mm fell in some places causing surface and even severe flooding in many places. West and North West Seoul took the brunt of it with whole carparks being turned into lakes.

Cheonggye Stream - The footpath along the stream completely

submerged, it became a raging river surging through the centre of Seoul

This also affected a couple of the Seoul Metro lines as a result. All service was suspended between Guro and Incheon on Line No. 1 and Line No. 4 was also affected, services being suspended between Seoul Station and Sadang. Line No. 2 was unable to stop at Hongdae Univ. Station due to flooding and Gwanghwamun didn't look much better off either.

Oryu-dong Station, Seoul - Line No. 1

This station apparently has a history of flooding easily.

Hongdae and Gwanghwamun Stations became waterfalls.

Outside Hongdae University Station - Passengers unable to get on or off here

Historic New Lynn Photos - Peter Trevor

These photos do not belong to me. They were uploaded to NZLocos by Peter Trevor on July 17th. They do not appear to exist anymore so I cannot link to them. I hope this is okay Peter and if it is not please post on NZLocos to let me know.

Rear of New Lynn Depot - 19th Nov 1969

New Lynn Interchange - 19th July 1982