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New Zealand: Airport flooded and homes swamped in Auckland

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  1. PantsEnvy
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    Normally New Zealand is used to a lot of rain, but 254mm/ ten inches in 24 hours was too much for the city to handle. That is about what the SF Bay Area had recently spread over 16 days.

    Normally New Zealand is used to a lot of rain, but 254mm/ ten inches in 24 hours was too much for the city to handle. That is about what the SF Bay Area had recently spread over 16 days.

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  2. Eidolon
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    Weather bombs are becoming much more frequent here, and the infrastructure can't cope with it. In the past you'd get 2 hours of heavy rain but the roads wouldn't be flooded over, and now they are....

    Weather bombs are becoming much more frequent here, and the infrastructure can't cope with it. In the past you'd get 2 hours of heavy rain but the roads wouldn't be flooded over, and now they are. One of the more obvious signs of climate change I think.

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