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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

Acknowledgements

The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research acknowledge the funding and support of the clients, the Climate Change Office, Ministry for the Environment, the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Environment Waikato, The Thames Coromandel District Council and the South Waikato District Council.

This study would not have been possible without the generous assistance of Thames Coromandel Flood Project community coordinators, Civil Defence Thames Coromandel, IAG Insurance, AMI Insurance and the Earthquake Commission.