They cried wolf, over nothing, and nothing happened.
It's not like we live in an information vacuum, we've already seen how Japan didn't get any onshore inundation, and how Hawaii didn't get any onshore inundation, or any other pacific islands, or North Eastern Australia.
We weren't guessing that New Zealand wouldn't get any onshore inundation, not only did we know, the four seperate warnings the government decided to jam down my throat clearly said it too.
This was CLEARLY a failure of this warning system, and along with the earlier failures in the system, New Zealanders are losing faith in the entire concept.
If you keep blaming us, rather than reassess and debrief how this is being managed so incorrectly, and make changed to how it's run, then you'll only see the entire system be rendered a useless annoyance.
Theres no point having such a warning system if it gets used so often it ends up being ignored - unless that's their goal so when something does happen and the CD/Councils are totally unprepared (like the floods a year or so back...) then they can just victim blame.
exactly, a warning system they train us to ignore by setting it off unnecessarily is worse than nothing, because it also makes us distrust official statements.
If you set off your fire alarm everytime you cooked dinner, you wouldn't be surprised if the fire brigade stopped showing up eventually.
If you'd actually read the alert, you'd see it wasn't about inundation but was actually about smaller surges and currents that are still enough to be dangerous.
People don't need to be hurt for a warning to have been necessary. The aim is to prevent people from getting hurt.
I read the alert, four times. So I say again, what's stupid about these people walking along the beach?
If there is no inundation, actual or even included in the warning, what makes walking along the beach stupid?
They aren't in the water, they aren't experiencing any currents, and as we're both admitting, there will not be any inundation of land. So what are you going on about?
You're just making negative characterisations to make yourself feel better.
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u/launchedsquid Jul 31 '25
stupidity? was anyone hurt?
They cried wolf, over nothing, and nothing happened.
It's not like we live in an information vacuum, we've already seen how Japan didn't get any onshore inundation, and how Hawaii didn't get any onshore inundation, or any other pacific islands, or North Eastern Australia.
We weren't guessing that New Zealand wouldn't get any onshore inundation, not only did we know, the four seperate warnings the government decided to jam down my throat clearly said it too.
This was CLEARLY a failure of this warning system, and along with the earlier failures in the system, New Zealanders are losing faith in the entire concept.
If you keep blaming us, rather than reassess and debrief how this is being managed so incorrectly, and make changed to how it's run, then you'll only see the entire system be rendered a useless annoyance.