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Speaker 2: The timeliness of weather warnings and alerts have again come
Speaker 2: under question. Auckland councilors and independent weather forecasters were among
Speaker 2: those seeking answers over the weekend, with severe thunderstorm warnings
Speaker 2: issued hours into the event. Overnight on Saturday, dozens of
Speaker 2: homes were flooded. However, as the weekend went on, emergency
Speaker 2: phone alerts did peak up and joining me now as
Speaker 2: Auckland councilor for why Tarket Award Shane Henderson Shane, good.
Speaker 3: Morning, Goyoda, good morning.
Speaker 2: So we're officials too slow to respond in the early
Speaker 2: hours of Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think from the met Service, you know,
Speaker 3: my community and we Stork actually felt the majority of
Speaker 3: storm activity before a weather watch has actually been put
Speaker 3: in place.
Speaker 2: But hang on, I think we've got Shane back. Good Sorry,
Speaker 2: just lost it there, Shane. You mute yourself.
Speaker 3: Hey you goodness? See, Yeah, I hope I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Now, So you were saying, yeah, too slow to respond?
Speaker 2: Were you happy with the responses the weekend went on.
Speaker 3: Metservice really stepped up after that and really improved, So,
Speaker 3: you know, I was really encouraged by that, and I
Speaker 3: think we can have some confidence in there. But it's
Speaker 3: also just keeping an eye on these things and making
Speaker 3: sure that they're working appropriately.
Speaker 2: Just one thing. I you know, I don't really object
Speaker 2: to getting the alerts, even though they slightly reminded me
Speaker 2: of COVID times, But I'm not sure i'd want to
Speaker 2: get one of those at three am in the morning.
Speaker 2: Do you think that there need to be a different
Speaker 2: standard as too, you know, I mean it's look, the
Speaker 2: storm might be on its way and that's the only
Speaker 2: time they can send it. What do you think about
Speaker 2: what can be sent out when?
Speaker 3: Now the issue was the weather watch coming through the
Speaker 3: metservi's website, because that triggers other agencies and people following
Speaker 3: along that gives them information, So it doesn't necessarily need
Speaker 3: to be a text alert at that point. Just depends
Speaker 3: on how the severity is. But yeah, yeah, so that's
Speaker 3: an important distinction there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm sure we accept when at maybe seven
Speaker 2: o'clock in the evening, but maybe not so much three
Speaker 2: o'clock in.
Speaker 3: The morning exactly, and.
Speaker 2: Not this last time we'll be talking about this, Shane.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning. That's Auckland Council Full
Speaker 2: up four Tarket Award.
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