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Officials are battling to restore communications to cut-off towns and get a better sense of Cyclone Gabrielle's damage, with the weather set to improve overnight.

The second significant meteorological storm to hit New Zealand in a month was Cyclone Gabrielle

Cyclone Gabrielle plunged around 46,000 homes into darkness and forced some areas to declare a state of emergency just two weeks after a record-breaking storm killed four people in New Zealand

Cyclone strikes as Auckland emerged from devastating record rains

New Zealand is considering a national emergency as wild weather threatens the North Island, thousands are without power and people evacuate.

Aucklanders wait for the skies to open in a city that hasn't felt this ghostly since lockdown, writes Matthew Scott.

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Critical infrastructure – such as airports, significant roads and our water systems – should be treated as too important to fail. The recent floods are a warning that prioritising resilience for our infrastructure is urgently needed

Flooded roads, our largest international airport underwater, overwhelmed storm water systems and significant sewage discharge into the sea and streams. The recent floods and then cyclone in Auckland are a stark reminder that our basic infrastructure lacks the resilience needed to survive major weather events.