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Dawn Chorus: 'Atmospheric River' swamps Auckland, its Mayor and our climate debate
TLDR: The cleanup and the post-mortem have begun, even though the rain just keeps falling in Auckland after Aotearoa’s most expensive ever climate event.The most rain ever to fall in a day: * swamped our biggest city, killing four people, making dozens of homes uninhabitable, forcing hundreds to people into emergency shelters and causing (at least) hundreds of millions of dollars damage;* exposing Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s failures as a communicator and the unpreparedness of Auckland’s infrastructure and emergency response systems to such intense and more frequent events; and,* landing a…
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