When Your Car Won’t Recover: A Whakatāne Driver’s Guide to Handling Damaged, Flooded, and Written-Off Vehicles
The morning after is usually when the reality lands. The storm has passed. The insurance company hasn’t rung back yet. You’ve stood in the driveway looking at what used to be your car and, depending on what happened, it might be sitting in six inches of receding floodwater, or crumpled at the front from an…