Flooding in New Zealand

@hartfire No public fund but a state of emergency was declared last night at 10.20 pm for the Auckland area.

@hartfire Toka Tū Ake EQC is a New Zealand Crown entity investing in natural disaster research, education and providing insurance to residential property owners. They have had funds since the 1930's. NZ is an earthquake prone country.

@hartfire they gave it all to the trannys

@SW-User Idiot

@KiwiBird if not yet, soon. I'm surprised your fishmouth PM hasn't done it yet

@SW-User Typical male American living in the past. Te pirimia o Aotearoa (PM of New Zealand) is Chris Hipkins, I doubt you even know who he is.

@KiwiBird not yet. Fishy is still there. Didn't you know that?

@SW-User Sworn in three days ago, numbskull.

@KiwiBird oh well. But then I'd have to care about some obscure backwater down around Antarctica, where sheep shagging is the national pastime, to care.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

@justanothername Thanks.
I just checked the latest updates on news for NZ.
So sorry to hear about your 3 lost lives, evacuations, derailments, slips and subsidences, 45 roads damaged and partially or fully closed, and interrupted public transport.
Looks like you've got more rain on the way and saturated ground from a long wet season.

I hadn't realised till now that you must be experiencing the same La Niña effects that Australia has been getting this year in its Southern temperate and North-western tropical areas. Ours have been far beyond the variations that have been typical in Oz - major catastrophes with astronomical expenses.

@hartfire Yeah....except that Oz is that big some areas very affected...others not so much. Where I live in S Aust the weather has been almost normal. Unlike the East Coast and NW of WA. New Zealand only got about half the amount N Qld got but it is not used to such deluges in summer. New Zealand doesn’t have a wet season unlike the northern areas of Australia so very unusual. I spoke to my sister in Auckland today...it is still raining.

@KiwiBird I'm in the Tweed, NSW. Our area got hit last Feb (2022). We're still recovering - less than half the roads mended, and only 10% of those who lost their homes have been re-housed. I think it will take many years to fully recover. We are making some decent improvements in planning for how to cope better in future disasters.

I think, even if a huge weather event is only half someone else's, it's still a big deal if you've never experienced it before. It means the architecture, engineering and infrastructure hasn't been designed to cope.

Climate change is now affecting every country in the world.

@hartfire Also strange how those November floods have just hit the Murray mouth....been a slow burn.

@KiwiBird Yes, I was wondering how long it would take for those floods to reach the Murray mouth, how it'll affect the wildlife, and how much people will reserve in dams. Most people might not want the water now, but when drought returns...
I hope lots of it sunk into the ground and helped replenish the deepest water tables.
I've also been wondering how it will affect our cereal and fruit harvest this year. I'm amazed at the lack of broader detail from the news channels.