Climate, Weather and Emergencies

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Nowhere is really that safe.

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3487

Had 150mm of rain here from 1am to about midday.

South of Yeppoon.

BOM said possible shower 0 to 1 mm .

Yeppoon had about 50mm.

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3488

It’s hailing HARD in the southern suburbs of Sydney.

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3489

QLD and NSW are having active severe T-storm warnings.

3490

Another weekend
 another warning.
What’s new?

3491

It doesn’t matter whether it’s not new to you. I’d rather be informed than be caught out in a storm.

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3492

I wasn’t trying to come off in an eye-roll complaint way, was just expressing how dismally regular these seem to be on weekends in QLD.

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3495

The cyclone now has a name: Fina.

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3496

Shame 9News packed up and left Darwin altogether, now Darwin won’t be able to get emergency information from a commercial TV broadcaster. Only aftermath insurance ads from local insurers during ad breaks. A free kick to the ABC who’ll probably have rolling coverage of the Cyclone.

3497

Nine could still provide emergency information. Likewise, Seven and/or DTD?

And ABC is the official emergency broadcaster anyway?

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3498

It’s funny how for Alfred it was rolling but this is radio silence

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3499

Is the difference because Alfred hit one of the five main states?

3500

I’d argue that a state capital should still be given coverage tbf

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3501

I think the main differences are:

-Alfred was forecast to impact an area with a population in excess of 4 million people, Fina is forecast to hit an area with a far smaller population (160-170k or so).

-Cyclones in the Top End are not an uncommon occurrence and as such the infrastructure has been built to withstand such extreme weather events (one would hope that is the case after Tracy)- on the other hand a cyclone hitting South East Queensland is a once in a generation event as it stands (although it may become more frequent with climate change).

I expect that if there does turn out to be significant impacts as a result of Fina that the national coverage will ramp up accordingly (hopefully that is not the case however).

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3503

how on earth does a website fresh come to $96 million?

3504

Probably a heap of consultancy and a new backend? The old one was well past it’s use by date.

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3505

surely it could have been done for a lot less than $96 million?

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3506

a contract with Accenture helps. I’ve heard that the numbers that have been mentioned recently are over a significant period too (close to 10 years)