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Dear readers, we are editing and reposting this article. Here we want to talk about two issues. One is about the weather,
because it is extreme; it is ether too hot, too cold, too wet and everything
else; the other issue is about the people; since they try to blame somebody,
when things go the wrong way. So, let me tell you, what happened in
Brisbane.
Now, because of the
flood that has happened in Brisbane years ago, we wonder what is happening to
the weather; so, we want to ask; who is to blame for today global warming, and
other weather issues that seem to follow one after the other? Do you think that
it is our fault? Because we are not looking after our planet properly, as we have said in our previous post.
So, let us compare,
what has happened in Australia in the last few years, and what is happening
right now. One cannot help to think that a couple of years ago, we were so
worried that there was not enough water in the dams of south east Australia,
for that reason, we started to cut down our water consumption, today it is
completely the opposite there are floods everywhere and we don’t know how we
can avoid the damages caused by these floods. We believe that these problems
are caused from global warming and other factors, so, mankind needs to look for
solutions.
We hope that in our community, there are clever people that can solve these problems. So, I believe that we should try to understand these weather issues, and at the same time try to let these people do their job, even if what they have done is not perfect; but they have done their best at that time. Anyhow, first let us see what is happening today in Australia, and after that we try to explain who is to blame?
Anyhow, in this
article we are talking about the extreme weather in the regions of south east
Queensland, so, we want to add another link, where we are talking about
climatic changes and the effect it has all over the world, in this article; Concerned citizen
views. Now, to explain what has happened, let us post what the news have
reported, at the time when this was happening.
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News report on the
internet.
Hereunder are part of reports that I found
on the Internet, when these events were happening; let us start with St George QLD. And I quote;
The Balonne River
is expected to peak sometime on Tuesday morning with the levees protecting the
town of St George likely to hold back the water.
Thousands of people
were evacuated from the cotton-growing centre of St George and taken to the
safe havens of Dalby and Brisbane, with grave concerns the Balonne River would
rise above the town's levee bank.
But those worries
eased on Monday afternoon, with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting the river
to peak at 14.5 metres on Tuesday - short of the 15-metre mark previously
feared.
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Now let see NSW,
the water moving downstream:
Residents in north
western New South Wales are bracing for more isolation as floodwaters move west
across the state.
The State Emergency
Service (SES) says more than 10,000 people are likely to be isolated as the
flooding from Queensland moves downstream into NSW over the coming days and
weeks.
More about NSW
floods:
Flooded residents
in northwest NSW have received a morale-boosting visit from Governor-General
Quentin Bryce.
Ms Bryce flew to
Moree on Tuesday morning to witness the clean-up operation after last week's
inundations.
"She's been
very well received," Moree mayor Katrina Humphries told AAP.
"She's a very
well-informed and compassionate lady."
-Here ends my quote
from the news.
What I am writing
now is what has happened after the flood from the dams.
This below is a
list of links I hope they work, and more quotes from the news.
Guards for flood
engineers after threats
Wivenhoe flood
engineers named
And now let us see
what is happening in Brisbane:
Two engineers in
charge of Wivenhoe Dam when Brisbane and Ipswich flooded have stepped aside but
it's no admission of guilt, the Queensland government says.
SEQWater senior
flood engineers John Tibaldi and Terry Malone, who both testified at the
reconvened floods inquiry last week, have stepped aside from their roles at the
government authority.
Mr Tibaldi, the
lead author of a report branded a fiction at the inquiry, did so on Friday
after finishing his testimony.
Mr Malone, who
testified on Sunday that no contemporary records on water releases were kept
during last year's flood - in breach of dam manual requirements - followed suit
on Monday.
End of quote.
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This is the reasons
why I have called this article: Brisbane floods, who is to blame?
At this very
moment, I can say that this game may turn out to be a dangerous game, because
the politicians are trying to pass the buck to the people that were in charge
of the dams, when those people didn’t know what the government wanted them to
do, so, the politicians are accusing them without thinking about the future
consequences.
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Concerned citizen
views.
As a concerned
citizen, I believe that politicians are playing are passing the buck. When
they should have talked about this issue while it was happening, but they
didn’t, because it was too hard to make the right decision, so, now they try to
blame the engineers in charge, when they had no clear rule to follow.
They want to find
faults with the engineers that were in charge of Wivenhoe Dam, because they
released the water from the dam to save the dam, there was too much water in
the dam and there was more water coming in at an alarming rate; what else could
they have done to save the dam from collapsing under the weight of the water, I
believe that what they did was the only option they had. I know that by
releasing the water some of Ipswich and Brisbane were flooded, but so what, if
the dam collapsed part of Ipswich and Brisbane could end up in the Pacific
Ocean, therefore, the engineers at the Wivenhoe Dam have saved us from a major
disaster.
I believe that what
is happening now is that the politician want to blame the engineer, but I would
like to ask those who are trying to blame the engineers; if they were in charge
of the dam at that time when this happened, what would they have done different
from what the engineers did? To this question there must be a clear answer and
no doubts or two ways about it, because today they have the advantage of
knowing what has happened, therefore, it should be a clear-cut answer. I hope
you see what I mean.
If they don’t know
how things had to be done then, even with the advantage of knowing what was
going to happen; then these people are worthless to know, because instead of
accepting their mistakes they are blaming somebody else.
The politicians
need to see what they are doing, since it can cause harmful affect in the
future.
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Possible harmful
effect.
As a concerned citizen, I should
consider the harmful effect that can come from this, Playing the game, who is
to blame. I want to say to these politicians, that they are wasting taxpayer
money, and there can be harmful effects from they are doing. Today we must
think that the world needs the best minds available to solve the future
problems that we are facing, here we are talking about global warming and all
the consequences that it can bring. At this point of time one should ask, who
are the best minds that can minimize these problems? I suppose most of us will
be thinking about the engineers, who else is able to make plans how to control
water flow.
Since this is very
likely what is going to happen, those engineers’ minds need to be free from
fear of being accused of anything that they have not committed, if they are not
free from fear, they cannot do their best and make new plans.
Therefore,
politicians must try harder to understand the situation and to be friendlier
with those minds capable to solve the problems, instead of trying to accuse
them to gain some votes from the public. I hope you can see what I mean; we are
going to need the work of many engineers in the future, and we must let these
engineers work in a friendly environment, so, they can do a better job.
Therefore, let the
politician see that they are at the very top of the chain of command, so, they
should try to work together with the engineers openly, and since the politician
are better at communication skills, they have to try harder to talk to each
other in a friendly way, so, my point of view here is that the politician are
not doing enough for the benefit of the community they represent. They must try
harder and above all do not blame other people if you cannot give them your
instructions.
See you soon, in
our next article,
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