What a few weeks we’ve had!
As I write, Cyclone Gabrielle is finally relinquishing its grip on northern parts of the country, but this massive storm is still causing trouble further south, bringing damaging winds, high seas, heavy rain, and flooding.
For Northland, Auckland and Coromandel, among other regions, Gabrielle was a double whammy, coming hard on the heels of some of the heaviest rain on record only two weeks earlier. The resulting flooding and destruction forced hundreds of people from their homes and damaged the property of thousands more. People died.
With the clean-up still underway, Gabrielle’s arrival was an unwelcome dose of more of the same, only this time its destructive force was felt even further afield. Nationally, its impact on lives and infrastructure looks likely to eclipse…
