Confirmation of Thoughts

Sometimes it takes a long time to get to the bottom of issues.

At last I have found someone with the knowledge and years of experience to confirm what I have been thinking in relation to the disastrous results following Gabrielle.

It's such a complicated matter  and their are many threads to join together to enable some understanding of the engineering and the impact on infrastructure involved in trying to hold back nature and its power when it challenges our , what may seem to be pathetic , resistance measures.

What is apparent is the implications of the truth,  muddy the waters (see what I did there) and political considerations , responsibility  and arse covering come to the fore.

With the clarification of many details I now feel for the first time that there may well be a case for compensation for those affected by the flood. 

One wonders if the hurried settlement of red stickered properties had something to do with stemming any claims that may have emerged from the worst affected.

Trouble is ,with some time to reflect and analyze  we can expose the extent of what happened and if there is any culpability apparent.

My thoughts about loss of institutional knowledge and experienced personal from authorities has been confirmed .The value of long term involvement just cannot be denied. Even extending back to conversations by staff with residents who have witnessed historic events and can explain details about what occurred.

We have a situation where all this knowledge , along with engineering ,practical tasks and political decision making will never be able to gel in to a collective , positive , future tackling event because too many players are involved .

It will take years for our community to build again. May be it will be prevented from re establishing because of politics and bureacracy.