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While looking up Cyclone Tracy 1974 in Darwin I came across this about learnings for better structures. Do we know about, do this?
Darwin Reconstruction Commission
On 28 February 1975 the Whitlam government established the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, following the Prime Minister’s pledge to make ‘a determined and unremitting effort to rebuild your city and relieve suffering’.
The Commission’s mandate was to reconstruct Darwin within five years. In fact, it achieved this in a little more than three years. It was only then, in the middle of 1978, that Darwin’s population reached its pre-cyclone levels.
Repercussions
In time, some good would come out of the experience of Cyclone Tracy. The main benefit wasthe introduction of greatly improved building standards that would apply across the entire country. These included requirements that buildings be clad to protect them against flying debris, and that their roofs be tied to the foundations.https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/cyclone-tracy
Engineering against cyclone damage.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/BSS/nbsbuildingscience86.pdf
Did Carmel Sepuloni just endorse illegal behaviour?
Sepuloni was quoted in RNZ as “making sure we don’t retraumatise” people caught in New Zealand illegally and that instead of apprehending these overstayers at any time of day we wait until they have had a good sleep in and a full breakfast before we ask them if it’s ok to detain them. What is this wokery, she is essentially endorsing criminality, downgrading the rule of law to that of whim and emotion, ignoring ministerial impartiality, and setting precedent for anyone to enter the country and remain here illegally thereby undermining any ruling which has already been passed for similar convictions. New Zealand risks becoming a banana republic with these judicial interferences; the NZ government has already allowed our country to become a dumping ground for Australian convicts.
Time we all woke up to a better dawn and breakfast I think. And the training of the grunts that do the nasty jobs for gummint – it should aim to lift them to a good standard, not reinforce that anyone who becomes unpopular is bad, only some, in various levels. It seems to me that Carmel Sepuloni is double-dipping; an MP here, perhaps building a profile in her own heritage land and could be PM there in 5 or so years.
A thought about rain. I don’t know what the side effects of seeding clouds are. But if they weren’t too bad, then perhaps all these aircraft still flying around causing long-term problems for us all could be given the task of cloud seeding in chosen areas they fly through at particular times in prescribed ways, and have that tied into their right to fly, maybe we could extract some advantage from them that would help drought areas. I
t may be that they wouldn’t go near drought areas but be able to set conditions so that mountains would start the raincloud process and the water would then fill mountain streams. Maybe.
This makes me laugh.
Economics and the power of hope
From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 1 May
Hope matters; it can help us make better, healthier choices for a happy and more productive life, an American academic says.
Dr Carol Graham studies hope, not as a psychologist, but as an economist at the Brookings Institution think tank.
Her studies around the world show that hope thrives in some very unexpected places and that it can improve lives in measurable ways.
A preacher from the Church of the Good (and Chaste?) Economist of the New Puritanism. Glory and happiness through goodness and financial facility. These people have no sense of the ridiculous; how irreconcilable what they spout.
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