Fester

Hydrologists are not scientists they are engineers.

Grim,

Damn, so few do!

Keith

They use a scientific method and race calling is not a part of their qualification. It is sad to see people so quick to blame those who have given advice that would have saved so much money and hardship were it heeded.

Fester,

the hydrologists, who use mathematical models and not science, made predictions which were always over-estimations and tended to suggest we were in a race to best previous records. The resulting much lower than predicted levels was what caused lower levels of hardship and saved money.

It was Joh and his engineers who foesaw the possibility of future catastrophic floods and who planned to mitigate them.

It was Rudd, when running Qld for Goss, who trashed plans for Wolfdene and dumped the engineers expert advice.

I suggest you take the matter up with him. Not me.

keith, Yasi was bigger and much more severe than Larry. The damage to the place is catastrophic.
I suspect you have not been up here to see the damage first hand. It looks like an atomic bomb, loaded with agent orange, hit the place. Houses stood up simply because of better engineering. There was no loss of life simply because Yasi hit a rural area where most people are familiar with the safety precautions needed for cyclones.

Hasbeen, the people left the boats in Port Hinchinbrook because their insurance covered them in a mariner and penalised them if the boaties went up the mangroves. One of the blokes who went up the mangroves where he got hit by a few trees etc even though the boat survived, was slammed a $5,000 excess from his insurance because he did not stay in the mariner! Get your facts straight.

Keith
Hope this clears it up for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrologist

a597, further to the suggested Mark Lawson book read, you would bring yourself up to date by:
(a) consulting Bob Carter's book, 'Climate: the Counter Consensus' and
(b) reading the 8 February 2011 open letter, 'The Truth About Climate Change', submitted to the United States Congress by a group of responsible US scientists, in response to a letter of 28 January 2011 from eighteen climate 'alarmists', that is available at the following link
http://www.co2science.org/education/truthalerts/v14/TruthAboutClimateChangeOpenLetter.php