Comments called for on the ACT Strategic Bushfire Management Plan

I guess they won’t be reviewing this.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/27/2582648.htm

As a side note, there is a difference between being “alarmed”, and being fearful. Alarmed is the worry you feel when being told of a risk to your wellbeing. “Fear” which is what the Governments didnt want to raise, is what you experience when you are running from the fire that you were never alarmed about!

The fire event was envisaged by a bunch of us on a weather forum, 2 weeks before the fires hit. In fact, me and a Qbn firie predicted the entire situation, never thinking that it would be allowed to happen. We figured all the highly-paid official experts would do something about them.

Heres a comment. Twenty years ago in College, I did a unit in Geography (double majors)called Natural Distasters. In that unit, I distinctly remember learning that the two worst possible disters that faced the Canberra City were A)Flooding of the entire central Canbera region all the way up to Dickson 1 meter deep, should the Googong Dam be blown up, or fail, and B) a mega fire coming in from the west and flanking the entire City. After the 2003 ACT Bushfires, all the ACT Government could bang on about, is how this was “an event that no-one envisaged”. Crap… I learnt about it in a Public College, in a course sanctioned and funded by the ACT Government. How could it not be envisaged then. From, educated, but confused!