# Civil defence, right now

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

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.

_Relayed from the source, not verified or endorsed by this site._

## In force / coming up

- [Road Snowfall Warning](https://alerts.metservice.com/cap/alert?id=2.49.0.0.554.0.roadsnow.porterspass.20261014075434026.0), Porters Pass (SH73), Snow is expected to affect the road Thursday evening and Friday morning. 6 to 12 cm may accumulate about the summit, with lesser amounts down to 600 metres., 15 Oct 2026
- [Road Snowfall Warning](https://alerts.metservice.com/cap/alert?id=2.49.0.0.554.0.roadsnow.arthurspass.20261014075441095.0), Arthur's Pass (SH73), Snow may affect the road Thursday evening when 1 cm could accumulate above 800 metres., 15 Oct 2026

## 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](https://opendata-christchurchcity.hub.arcgis.com/): 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.

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HTML: https://www.chch.live/civil-defence
Source: [Christchurch City Council, CivilDefence](https://opendata-christchurchcity.hub.arcgis.com/)
Feed: https://www.chch.live/api/happening?kinds=emergency