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A storm in a tea cup? 12-Dec-2017 At 7:34:52 AM ajfclark

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On 12-Dec-2017 dalai wrote:
>Agree with all the comments, but if the rains did come and they didn't
>provide a warning they would get canned even more!

Think of it as a matrix.

One axis is whether the event occurs, yes or no
The other is whether BOM warns people, yes or no

When both match (yes, we're warned and it happens, no we aren't and it doesn't) things turn out fine.

When they don't things get interesting.

If it doesn't happen but we're warned, there's some inconvenience for people who cancelled things etc.

If it happens but we aren't warned, people might die.

So we have:

Warned\Event Occurs Yes No

Yes People prepared so less likely to die Inconvenient

No Significant risk that people might die Nothing happens

You can only pick which row you are in. Which would you prefer?