9/10/2023 0 Comments Quotes about hurricane aftermath![]() ![]() Rikki Reed, who survived Cyclone Gabrielle clinging to a tree in the flood waters through the night Photograph: Supplied/The Guardian In others, however, those measures will be cripplingly expensive, or simply impossible – leaving an intolerable risk to the lives of any who live there. Some of those areas can be protected by extensive mitigation measures – sea walls, stop-banks, stilts, early warning systems for flooding. According to the government’s national adaptation plan, one in seven New Zealanders, or 675,000 people, live in areas prone to flooding, and another 72,065 live in areas projected to be subject to extreme sea level rise. ![]() “And the infrastructure that’s required to get us to and from all of that.”Īs the climate heats, scientists agree that extreme weather events – including flooding and cyclones – will happen more frequently, and with greater intensity. “There are difficult conversations ahead for New Zealand about exactly where we all live,” finance minister Grant Robertson said on Sunday, shortly after walking through the remains of a ruined power station. As people begin to dig their houses from the silt and assess the damage, the country faces looming questions about where and how to rebuild, and whether it even should, with the knowledge of a climate crisis that will bring more storms, flooding and extreme weather in the years to come. Reed is one of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who lives in a region at ongoing risk from flooding and extreme weather events. That combination: the keen desire to preserve a home, and awareness that some of those homes are critically vulnerable to future floods – is now in the minds of tens of thousands of New Zealanders, and a government that faces extremely tough questions in the coming weeks. Once I can get back here, I’ll get back out there.” If you look at the way the valley’s shaped, that’s where water has been – so it’s not the first time.” A house lays destroyed by Cyclone Gabrielle in the Esk Valley near Napier Photograph: AFP/Getty Images ![]()
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