The wrath of Napier's water bomb
Nine To Noon
English - November 09, 2020 20:30 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The clean up is underway after torrential rain and flooding yesterday, with Napier struck by a one in 250-year weather bomb. It was Napier's second-wettest day on record since 1870, with 237 mm of rain by late last night when a state of emergency was declared in the city. Power was cut to 3,000 thousand properties, Fire and Emergency received 350 weather-related call outs and there have been several large landslides. We cross to our Napier reporter and Kathryn also talks to Napier resident Malcolm Cox who lives near the landslide on Hospital Hill and Kazmira Aranui who says there is knee-deep floodwater in Onekawa.