Motorways were flooded and homes were awash again as Tāmaki Makaurau battled more torrential rain on Rāapa, Wednesday morning.
The Government has topped up the mayoral relief fund by one million dollars but there will be many hoping there's more to come.
Speaking to Tova O'Brien, Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson said the unprecedented weather is 'not over yet'.
"Aucklanders have woken to quite a lot of flooding… motorways closed, it's pretty bad out there," Simpson said.
"The big message from us is, if you do not have to travel, please don't.
"Please check in on friends and neighbours.
"And if you are worried about your life, 111 is the number."
Simpson told O'Brien the incident was 'not good enough'.
"I'll talk to the chief executive straight away when I hang up after this," Simpson said.
"But from our perspective, we have staff and contractors out now assessing the impact of the latest deluge we've seen this morning, they've been on the road very early.
"And a huge shout out to Fire and Emergency Services who are doing an amazing job at trying to rescue people where floods are damaging cars, people and properties."
"We're doing our best."
Simpson also spoke about the number of videos that emerged of people playing in the flood waters last week, urging Kiwis to not 'play in' the flooding even if it looks 'tempting'.
"They can look very tempting to splash around in and get your kayak out but that is not the message I want to put through to Aucklanders, please stay away from it.
"You don't know what's under it. You don't know what the pull and drag are around those flood waters.
"When it can look quite shallow that you can get your gumboots on… it can be very deceptive."
When it came to discussing Wayne Brown's message to his tennis mates on Tuesday, Simpson said 'I'm not going to go there'.
"I've got my hands full with this," she said.
"I did spend time with the mayor yesterday [Tuesday]. He has been out and about talking to constituents and assessing the damage from a local perspective. He has been talking to councillors.
"I think he is doing that."
Simpson added that if there is any sort of silver lining to come out of this unprecedented weather, it is that Auckland Transport have made the decision to delay the public transport fare increases for the time being.
"There were fare increases planned for the 12th [of February] and they will not go ahead on that date.
"They'll be thinking about when they want to do that but it won't happen straight away."
Listen to the full interview between Auckland Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson and Tova above.
You can also download the full interview on the Tova podcast, and listen on the go.
