After the flash flooding comes the flashbacks. Every time it rains, Chris Hung’s mind reverts to the worst-case scenario: Torrential downpours, knee-high.
The North Island could be in for a stormy end to January, with an “upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex” forecast to arrive on our shores by early next week.
Four lives have tragically been claimed by raging floodwaters and slips caused by an extreme and unprecedented deluge of rain across Auckland and Waikato on Friday.