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Ryan Bridge: Did we over hype Cyclone Vaianau?
The storm for the most of the North Island was a fizzer.
The TV news struggled to find pictures of anything actually happening other than a few trees down and reporters breathlessly doing pieces to camera in the wind.
In Auckland where I live most shops were closed and they didn’t need to be.
There is a risk of the boy who cried wolf.
But I also don’t think need to have an existential national conversation about whether this was over-hyped.
The forecasters do their thing. They tell you what is coming. Or their best guess of what's coming. Then it’s up to us to make our own decisions based on…
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