Bay of Plenty Event

Sometimes it's best to sit back and observe.

The latest rain event hung around for a few days and along with the gusty easterly , knocked some fruit off the trees and caused frustration in the middle of the plum harvest.

All the time I was tracking the cloud mass as it sat over a huge area and continued to rain down on the Bay of  Plenty and Gisborne .

Once upon a time it was Gizzy that was the place to go in summer. Surfing , sand , sun and fun.

We are going through a period where weather patterns have changed and summers can be punctuated with these cursed easterlies that spoil everything.

That brings me to the sit back and observe note.

The reaction in the media following the rain event has been nuts.

There are too many knee jerk commentaries that leap to the anthropomorphic  climate change conclusion.

Newspapers and online media stories preaching doom and gloom if we don't stop driving cars or burning coal.

No perspective. No experience. No attempt to research and understand the weather.

The other coverage that has become over the top is the blame game being played.

Cooler heads are needed.

It's a bloody disaster that's for real. We need time to digest what has happened and better understand the hows and why of the event.

One thing of concern is that Councils and Government agencies are going to go down the same track as Gabrielle.

It's following that pattern already as though we have learned nothing in the last three years.