PHOTO: SUPPLIED During the 2006 Waitati flood, McCarthy was still insured.
Her house reduced to little more than a storage shed, Cushla McCarthy is living New Zealand’s flood-prone future. Stuff‘s Nikki Macdonald examines the design strategies for minimising the number of people as badly affected as McCarthy.
BUILDING RESILIENCE
When Cushla McCarthy stepped on to what used to be her veranda, there was only water. The boards had upped and floated away.
She was supposed to have evacuated already, but she’d been so busy rescuing precious possessions, she hadn’t noticed the flood licking at her
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