"The number of people reported as uncontactable following Cyclone Gabrielle has dropped to eight, down from 13 on Friday night.
Some of those were people who, "for a variety of reasons, do not engage with authorities", police said in a statement.
However, getting in touch with them remained a priority and all avenues were being explored to try and locate them."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4848...le-figures
So doomsayers were almost completely wrong as far as casualties go, only 11 probably.
Some of those were people who, "for a variety of reasons, do not engage with authorities", police said in a statement.
However, getting in touch with them remained a priority and all avenues were being explored to try and locate them."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4848...le-figures
So doomsayers were almost completely wrong as far as casualties go, only 11 probably.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche