Yup, the one that feeds into Tararua, lake Rotomahana, where the pink and white terraces are buried, doesn't have an outfall. I think an artifical tunnel may have been built, but it doesn't normally have one.

[–] cloventt 2 points 1 year ago

I think so, Rotorua is a crater lake that apparently drains to Rotoiti, but Rotoiti doesn’t seem to drain to anywhere.

I guess you could dig canals to connect all these bodies of water, and then connect that out to sea, but it would be a massive job.

[–] BalpeenHammer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Expect much worse for the next few decades.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for these folks

[–] BalpeenHammer 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they should have known better than to get lakeside property so close to the waterline.

[–] chrizbie 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would agree with you but I think in this instance it's pretty unpredictable, one of the guys in the story has been living there his whole life and never experienced any thing like this at all

[–] BalpeenHammer -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think global warming and rising sea levels and more disruptive climate events were unpredictable.

[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only the last decade or so that it's really been a mainstream issue, before that it was something that was kinda ignored by our politicians, and most people.

All of this infrastructure would predate it being a mainstream issue.

[–] BalpeenHammer -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"An inconvenient truth" came out it 2006. That's more than a decade ago. The kyoto protocol to curb emissions was passed in 1997. The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.

[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think normal people listened to Al Gore?

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many did, but then on the flip side there were screeds of media voices lying (willfully or ignorantly) and telling everybody to ignore Al Gore & all the other people warning of the same thing.s

[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

This is exactly my point, it's only been in the last decade or so that global warming being a reality has been generally accepted. It's easy to say in retrospect that they should have known, not so easy to know at the time.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of these properties would predate the nineties though.

[–] BalpeenHammer 0 points 1 year ago

I agree that they were built before then. I don't agree that they were all bought before then.