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It also means that responsibility and common sense, along with sound knowledge needs to be used. Unfortunately, all of that is seriously lacking.
That's an oximoron isn't it LOL. Humans can engineer a lot of things, and sometimes get it right. In Holland in 1954 the dykes burst and halve the country dissappeared under 2 metres of water - an Engineering issue. It is all based on maths and physics of an assumed scenario, and there will be mistakes made. Whivenhoe was build to prevent exactly what is happening now, and the water level is breaking the 74 marks. People are like rabbits (population explosion) and demand to live somewhere. The Gold Coast is a good example with all the island communities - Hope Island is built on a swamp, there are a couple of swamp dozers buried there, because they couldn't be retrieved. I totally agree with your comment, but we can't change what we have now, maybe we can improve somethings - but we will lose the fight against natures powers, we cannot conceive of what it is capable of - we get a glimps every so often. Nothing will change, more and more people will occupy SEQ which means more and more will be affected by what is a normal cycle in Earths history. Millions of dollars will now be thrown into a commision on how to prevent this happening again, which IMHO is a waste of money. We simply cannot stop these things from happening. What is to say that Wivenhoe can hold 200% capacity, do you trust the engineering on the dam wall? I've spend the last 20 years in the Civil Construction game, and I have seen and understand the way storm water systems are build and erosion controls are constructed. I have also seen man hole steel lids blow 10-15 metres into the air, because the Q100 was wrong and the pressure and volume hydrolically was never calculated for. I have lost faith in the pollies and engineers, we are simply not prepared for the worst, and we can't calculate measures to prevent it until we have experienced it. All we can do is model scenarios with the information we have now. We are not done yet......
Regards, Dutch
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