It was warm and humid on the morning of January 27, 2023, in Auckland, the kind of weather that makes everything feel sticky. Then the rain began. By 5pm, cars were floating down the road in Henderson, entire suburbs were underwater, thousands of people were evacuating their homes, and every fire appliance in the city had been deployed. It would become Auckland’s wettest day in recorded history. Aftewards, almost 1200 homes across the city were …