Well, when you dont have something to say and you're trying to be polite, well you talk about the weather...
So.... how about this cyclone (sic) that we're having!
Ever since the hail storms that wreaked havoc a few years back, the Bureau of Meteorology is quick on the draw for "Official Storm Warnings"... well if there was a hailstorm or a cyclone coming, we thank you for the warning, but really there isnt alot we can do...
But is it just me or are we getting more warnings of more cataclysmic events that then just peter out to sweet FA? Are we going to get so many warnings that we'll end up with a Crying Wolf mentality until one day we really do have a big event and half of us get washed out into the sea?
Well, I am ever hopeful because I would really love my Blue Mountains residence to become a property with "Ocean Views"... think how much it would go up in value!!
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think of all the dead flatties!
This is a result of that hail storm that hit Sydney a couple years back and the BOM came under heavy critisism for not issuing warnings.
In the litigous society we now live in were people are willing to blame anyone for anything, it was only through this that the BOM then started to issue such warnings on such a scale.
I agree it will lead to 'cry wolf' mentality, but in the event a major storm does hit and millions in damage is the result, the BOM becomes blameless...
Essentially they've moved from being a useful warning system to a political entity.
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