Auckland, New Zealand

People in Auckland New Zealand's largest city have been forced to evacuate their

homes . As heavy rain causes major flooding in some parts of the city auckland's .

Mayors declared a state of emergency on Friday . As rising flood waters left streets

and homes swamped New Zealand's meteorological Service issued severe weather warnings .

As the torrential rain continued to fall Ricardo Menendez March is a New Zealand

green MP . Who was forced to evacuate his own home in Auckland . He says flood waters were

Rising rapidly this is not something that we are used to but climate change is negatively

making these sort of events more frequent and the city and in the country .

When it started raining many of us did not expect our neighborhoods to get

so flooded . But in a matter of an hour my local area was already flooded and the

water was coming all the way almost to our shoulders . So we had to make a pumped evacuation

it was relatively quick . I was privileged enough to have given Shelter by a mate who

lived nearby but there were people who were unfortunately not as lucky

low-income communities disabled people migrant communities . As well and there's

already been a casualty reported in the city we know that the rain is going to

continue overnight . There is less chance of evacuation from all over the city .

declared it's only recently on that shelters have been open to the general population

.So for many people they have some time ahead when there will be some uncertainty

and it goes without saying that we need to have a conversation about how

climate change is making these events more frequent and how cities like

Auckland are massively underprepared to deal with flooding events which are going to

become more frequently .

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