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The Waikato Weather Bomb: Understanding the impact

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

2. Losses vs. flooding type and depth

3. Economic Impact Assessment

4. Heavy Rain Warnings

5. Weather Forecasting

6. Relating Hazard Knowledge & Risk Perception to Impacts and Readiness

7. Conclusions

8. References

Acknowledgements

Appendix 1 MetService Severe Weather Warning Criteria

Appendix 2 Demographic data

Appendix 3 Residential Economic Impacts

Appendix 4 Business Economic Impacts

Appendix 5 Social data

Appendix 6 Domestic survey form

Appendix 7 Business survey form

Appendix 8 EQC insurance data

Appendix 9 AMI insurance data

Appendix 10 NZIER CGE Model Specification

Appendix 11 Residential questionnaire answers to free-response questions

Appendix 12 Business questionnaire answers to free-response questions

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