Making the bad weather better

Making the bad weather better
Queues of cars after the emergency alert was launched lasted well into the evening. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka/BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
Weather is a bit of a national obsession in NZ, but it is probably fair to say we all wish we had less to discuss right now.Top of the weather conversation starter list are the events of last Tuesday where it was sometimes hard to tell if the emergency response was making things better or worse in Auckland. An alert went far and wide asking people, who could, to get home. The buses got cancelled, the schools ended for the day and so everyone hopped onto the motorway just as the city was well and truly caught up in a torrential downpour.&nb...

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