Heavy floods in New Zealand have forced hundreds of people to leave their homes. The city of Nelson has been hit the hardest.
Further evacuations were ordered on Friday after 750mm of rain fell in three days. It could take years for New Zealand to recover from these floods.
Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez Hoda-Yan reports.
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Another part of the world wrecked next disaster coming tmrw lol
We’ll be all right. Traffic will be a bit of of a nightmare for a while though due to all the damaged roads, and some people will have a lot of work to fix their properties.
Definitely seems to be more and more extreme weather events as time goes on, that’s for sure…
Yeah climate change is such a hoax Not
Pray New Zealand floods🙏🙏🌎🌏🌍
Just in case you were wondering, the mayor was the only person interviewed who has a common New Zealand accent. The others, like me, were born in other countries, based on how they sound.
Sorry: I appear to be confused; I thought the woman, who sounds like she was born here, is the mayor. My mistake.
Are you sure? Sounds like a South African accent to me.
Yes, in fact I just found an article about the mayor and he is in fact born in South Africa
Although to add to that he does also have Greek roots
My mistake as well I thought you were referencing the man who was speaking not the woman
U r not wrong! 👍 I adore foreign accents n languages. 🤗
Check the radar anomalies
Was NOT natural
@Chris101 Gray YT channel Rob D
@RIAM RIAM the central part to NZ is essential to the countries supply chain, this is the true disruption but just like Queensland’s flooding, insurance premiums for homeowners went from $1600 to $16’000 per year
Omg we made it onto Aljazeera
Haha
well…………
I saw a weather report that described a large rainfall point in the mountains. And now i see a great flood.
I live in the south island. Ahhh its bad. 😢 My poor fellow kiwis. Take care of yourselves and help each other.
Sunny day down here in Invercargill.
Signs of solar minimum in a few years mini ice age , global warming is a lie
NZ nanny state kicks into overdrive. Survive floods Get vaccinated.
this has nothing to do with vax
God is powerful
Evil AF country 💉💉💉💉
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗱
A few days ago, the papers warned that Europe is facing the worst drought in 500 years. They described the dry and hot weather and the fires that broke out all over the continent and spoke of an apocalypse. Today, they are reporting flooding in London and violent storms in France causing catastrophic flooding, where in some places, more than an inch of rain fell in less than 30 minutes, and in Paris, a storm with 65 mph wind gusts and nearly 2 inches of rain that fell in just 90 minutes flooded the Metro. Clearly, the climate has gone mad.
However, the climate did not go awry by itself, but because of our madness. Nature’s erratic behavior merely reflects our own agitation toward everything. Our growing narcissism drives us to treat everyone and everything with utter indifference to the needs of others. In fact, we even enjoy hurting others. We think that if we can use others and not see the consequences for our actions right away then there are no consequences, but there are very serious consequences for our wrongdoing toward others.
In the closed system that is the world we live in, everything we do affects everything else, and that effect returns to us like a boomerang. When we pour so much negativity into the system, it becomes dysfunctional, and this summer, we are experiencing this dysfunction through the smoldering heat waves and torrential rains. If we continue to flood the system with hatred and intolerance, we will not need nuclear weapons to wipe us out; plagues, natural disasters, fires, and floods will extinguish us long before we extinguish each other.
When the summer is gone, winter will come with its own perils, and lack of gas and power will wreak havoc in Europe. Eventually, we will have to accept that we cannot defeat nature; we cannot outsmart it. We will have to learn to be an integral part of nature, connected to each other and to nature. We will not survive otherwise.
Since the only element in nature that has bad intentions and an exploitative attitude toward others is us, we must begin to change our relationships. Our attitude toward the rest of nature stems from our attitude toward each other. Therefore, if we are considerate toward each other, we will be considerate toward nature. It turns out that the correction of our tormented planet begins with the correction of our broken ties with one another.
To mend them, we must put our heads together and discuss solutions on a global level. These solutions must be inclusive and take into account everyone’s needs. At the same time, everyone must accept that they cannot receive more than is necessary, since they, too, must be considerate toward others.
To get such a global initiative off the ground, there needs to be an open discussion about it all over the global media. People must know that we really are running out of time, and unless we change now, it will be too late afterwards.
I do not know how to keep this move clean from politics and politicians, but it has to be a genuine effort to save humanity and the planet, not a ploy to take control of it. Perhaps a panel of scientists will be able to make this happen, but they, too, must work without ulterior motives.
I realize that this idea may sound naive, but I also realize that if we do not take global action to sincerely improve our connections, the approaching annihilation is certain and near.
Photo Caption:
A firefighter walks past the flames of a forest fire near Belin-Beliet. French officials have warned that the forest fire could spread further in the southwest of the country. Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH via Reuters
Government has said it could take years to rebuild, but if this starts happening at least once each year it will place NZ further and further behind as things break down.
The climate crisis has been warned about for decades, and disasters like this have been happening in many parts of the planet, with more frequency and intensity. We’ll see more disasters next year and years to come, and idoits will keep saying the same stupid things again and again until (or even after) they suffer themselves.