Emergency services facing huge number of callouts as wild weather sparks landslides and forces closure of country’s largest airport
McAnulty said water tankers are being sent to the area, he said, and residents were urged to cut their water use in order to reduce wastewater levels. Residents in affected areas were also urged to buy only the food they need while damage to supermarkets and food supply services were assessed.
“Auckland was clobbered on Friday – Auckland’s wettest day on record – and today we start the clean-up,” the agency’s duty controller, Andrew Clark, said in a statement, urging caution for residents returning home to survey flood damage. Auckland’s mayor, Wayne Brown, warned late on Friday that the clean-up operation would be a “major, major job”.on Friday, and the wild weather closed the city’s airport, the country’s largest, with ankle-deep water in some terminals.
Hipkins, who was sworn in on Wednesday after Jacinda Ardern’s resignation, wrote on Twitter that government agencies were “working flat out” to help.
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