<br /> <p>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.</p><p>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</a>. Credit: Aidan Owen Green via Storyful</p><br />
