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Joke email that’s floating around about the damage to Auckland!
DESTRUCTION IN AUCKLAND
How did they cope!?
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TxKiwi on 28/07/2008 1:51am
This photo was floating around three years ago after Hurricane Katrina representing the “destruction” in Houston, presumably put out there by people in New Orleans
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