New Zealand counts the costs of deadly floods
STORY: New Zealand is counting the cost of deadly floods and landslides following heavy downpour.
Four people lost their lives over the last three days, and a state of emergency remains in place around the biggest city, Auckland.
Footage from the ground showed homes and vehicles wrecked.
Drone footage from Sunday showed fields underwater and a derailed train.
Insurance companies are tallying claims that may add up to the country’s most expensive weather event ever.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins warned on Monday there was more to come.
"My focus and the focus of central government is supporting Auckland through what is still, you know, a big challenge ahead of them. There's a big clean up to go and, of course, we know through the forecasts that there's more bad weather ahead."
On Sunday, thousands were without power, and hundreds were without water, many of them, housed in evacuation shelters.
Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni joined in with Red Cross workers.
“Well in the whole of West Auckland there’s been a huge impact on people. A huge number of families have had to evacuate because of flooding, some of them have nowhere to go, some of them lost everything and some of them were at fear of losing their lives. So they’ve come in here, some of them quite distressed and the community response to that has been to give them, to meet all the needs that they have, including their emotional needs at this time.”
The country’s insurance industry says the cost of flood damage could exceed that of destructive floods on the West Coast in 2021, some $63 million U.S. dollars.
Economists say the recovery and rebuild after the latest weather could add to inflationary pressures on New Zealand with vehicles and goods that need to be replaced and construction work needed to fix or rebuild houses and infrastructure damaged by the flooding.
相關影片推薦
- 9:00韓國工廠火災:中國朝鮮族女工遇難 家屬淚訴最後訊息BBC NEWS 中文65,471 次觀看・2 週前
- 1:53高虹安貪污判7年4月 同天抄襲論文案脫身勝訴華視影音34,136 次觀看・10 小時前
- 1:47颱風過後網友歪樓 許淑華勘災雨衣鞋引發討論民視影音4,235 次觀看・9 小時前
- 1:25許淑華勘災焦點歪樓 時尚雨衣遭起底「要價近萬」東森新聞影音22,556 次觀看・6 小時前
- 1:58新北送高雄1146元外送單是真的! 外送員現身東森新聞影音419,728 次觀看・4 天前
- 1:43擋雨神器! "防水閘門"隔出兩個世界 防淹水惡夢民視影音37,138 次觀看・1 天前
- 1:58鼓山美術館豪宅區淹大水 整片"土黃泥流"損失慘民視影音156,106 次觀看・2 天前
- 2:01中國快時尚危機 年丟2600萬噸衣服 合成纖維占7成無法回收Yahoo奇摩(國際通)130,265 次觀看・2 週前
- 11:02地震來了怎麼辦?豆腐別再涼拌了,教你新吃法,做法簡單味道足,加上杏鮑菇,香!芭樂媽的家 Qistin Wong TV73,617 次觀看・5 天前
- 2:27凱米來襲!高雄多區淹水一級警戒 高美館豪宅區淹水「影片曝光」民視影音153,523 次觀看・2 天前
熱門必看
- 13:07葉全真不愛邀人作客竟是因為這點?唐老師:「好典型的處女座」!Ep.225-2唐綺陽談星室378,522 次觀看・3 週前
- 24:06霸氣挑戰南部小吃價格 吃到賺到!板橋10樣親民價美食Yahoo創作摩人136,925 次觀看・1 個月前
- 23:55吃爆三峽老街美食|九間就被擊垮了|最道地金牛角竟是這家?|阿環格格出遊去 Ft.阿環小姐 [送你營養吃]黃君聖Sunny營養師155,970 次觀看・1 個月前
- 21:58瀕臨破產到全球市值最強!輝達(Nvidia)是怎麼崛起的?買他們股票的都賺翻了?《 時代的巨人》EP 021|志祺七七志祺七七 X 圖文不符203,436 次觀看・1 個月前
- 6:30台中南屯|百年秘方汕頭火鍋Lee Yi李易43,235 次觀看・1 個月前