Civil defence, right now

Road closures, evacuations and emergency notices, straight from the council’s own civil defence layer.

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Nothing. No civil defence event, no closure, no notice, which is what this page says on almost every day of the year, and is the best thing on the site when it does.

What lands here the four kinds of notice

The council’s civil defence layer files four kinds of thing, and this page shows all of them the moment they appear.

Event areas Where something is happening, a flood zone, a fire’s reach, a suburb under instruction. Drawn as the ground it covers.

Event points Where to go, a welfare centre or evacuation point the council has opened and named.

Road closures The streets you cannot use right now, filed against the emergency rather than the works schedule.

Road incidents Hazards on the road that are part of the event, slips, flooding, debris.

In an actual emergency the official word is the council’s, this page is a mirror of the same layer it reads, not a replacement for it.

What this actually is

This is the only source on the site that is allowed to interrupt you. It is the council’s live civil defence layer, event areas, event points, road closures and road incidents, and it is uncapped and pinned to the top of the feed whenever it has anything in it, because a page that rations a civil defence notice to its fair share of the screen has misunderstood the job. The closure layer carries real dates where the record has them; the event layers carry none, and an undated notice is shown as in force rather than inventing a timestamp for it, a row only exists here while it is live.

Read live from Christchurch City Council, CivilDefence. This page refreshes itself every minute while the tab is open.

Elsewhere in the city

Earthquakes you would have felt here Every quake near enough and big enough to have been felt in Christchurch, from GeoNet. Opening, and licensed New alcohol licences: a bar, a restaurant, a bottle store. The closest thing the council publishes to a business-openings feed. When the water goes off Planned and unplanned water shutoffs across the city, mostly future-dated, which is the useful part.

Questions, answered briefly

What does this page list?

Road closures, evacuations and emergency notices, straight from the council’s own civil defence layer.

Where does this feed come from?

Christchurch City Council, CivilDefence: read live, newest first.

How fresh is it?

The stream re-asks the source every minute while the page is open; the rows a crawler reads are the last bake, refreshed daily.