{"id":52273,"date":"2023-02-01T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/auckland-floods-biggest-climate-event-new-zealand-history-flooding"},"modified":"2023-02-01T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:33:06","slug":"auckland-floods-city-begins-clean-up-after-biggest-climate-event-in-new-zealands-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52273","title":{"rendered":"Auckland floods: city begins clean-up after \u2018biggest climate event\u2019 in New Zealand\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rain and flooding eases, attention turns to assessing the scale of the damage after four people were killed by unprecedented extreme weather<\/p>\n<p>Insurers say devastating flooding in Auckland was the \u201cbiggest climate event\u201d in New Zealand\u2019s history, as rain eased after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/29\/auckland-flooding-death-toll-rises-as-new-zealand-hit-with-more-heavy-rain-and-landslides\">days of downpours<\/a> and a clean-up of the city began.<\/p>\n<p>Friday was the wettest day on record for New Zealand\u2019s largest city, with severe rain leading flood waters to sweep through streets and down highways, killing four people. Schools and businesses closed as buildings and roads were ravaged by the deluge. Auckland International Airport was shuttered temporarily, stranding thousands of travellers overseas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/auckland-floods-biggest-climate-event-new-zealand-history-flooding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rain and flooding eases, attention turns to assessing the scale of the damage after four people were killed by unprecedented extreme weatherInsurers say devastating flooding in Auckland was the \u201cbiggest climate event\u201d in New Zealand\u2019s history, as ra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,858,455,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52273\/revisions\/52274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}