The spot is renowned for ferocious northwesterly storms and a surging ocean that s forever changing the coastline. Oh, and it s a tsunami zone in an area prone to earthquakes. But the house has only had water underneath it once, thanks to a cyclone in 2018.
‘One in 100 year floods seem to now be an annual occurrence. More than 60 homes in Wesport were red-stickered as uninhabitable by Thursday morning due to flooding. Many owners of baches, cribs and beach houses around New Zealand’s coast are likely to find their homes uninsurable within 20 years. So could building more homes on “stilts” be a good solution for New Zealand’s flood-prone areas?
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