yeah because the worst thing that happens when a napalm bomb goes off is a few branches scattered.

Abbotts about to address the media, chan ABC1


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Pansi

lol... 

$700,000 in Cyclone Larry donations sitting unused in government accounts
by Patrick Lion From:The Sunday Mail (Qld) January 30, 2011 12:00AM




FIVE years after Cyclone Larry ripped through north Queensland, the State Government is still sitting on more than $700,000 donated by the public to help victims.




In 2006, Australians dug deep to donate $23 million to help devastated communities around Innisfail recover, but The Sunday Mail can reveal $703,000 is still sitting in government bank accounts.

The revelation will raise further doubts about the Bligh Government's ability to adequately process and distribute flood relief donations, which total more than $181 million.

With two more cyclones bearing down on the region this week, Cassowary Coast Regional Council Mayor Bill Shannon yesterday said he did not realise the Government was sitting on the Larry donations to his residents.

"There are people who are still suffering who I'm sure would need the money," Cr Shannon said.

But confronted over the idle money yesterday, the Government said the funds would now be added to the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal for the floods.

Premier Anna Bligh today denied her government has been sitting on funds donated for Cyclone Larry victims and told reporters she will transfer the remaining $703,000 in funds from the appeal established to help north Queensland victims of Cyclone Larry in 2006 to her disaster appeal for flood victims.

She said she was concerned the claims would scare people off from making donations to her flood appeal and assured Australians the money would be distributed properly.

The Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal for the floods has reach about $186 million.

The revelations come amid a storm of controversy over the past week about inconsistent means-testing for government grants and disaster relief payments for this summer's state-wide flood crisis.

Premier Bligh yesterday refused to comment on why the Larry money was never handed out but a spokesman confirmed the final six claims for assistance were processed last month.

Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said it was shocking north Queenslanders had been "short-changed" after so many gave generously.

"It beggars belief that money that was donated to assist the victims of Cyclone Larry has remained unspent so many years after it was raised," Mr Langbroek said.

"Anna Bligh must explain why the victims of Cyclone Larry have been short-changed."

The Premier's spokesman said 2945 grants were paid from the fund. "Trustees have agreed that these residual funds will go directly to the current Premier's Appeal Fund," the spokesman said.

However, the Government failed to say when this decision was made.

Cr Shannon would not comment on whether the funds should go to the flood appeal but said some Cyclone Larry victims had suffered in the recent floods.

"I just can't believe there is that much left over and it has taken five years to process those final claims," he said.



http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/in-cyclone-larry-donations-sitting...

So can it be said, that whenever Bligh has one of her notorious good-will fund-raisers, the funding raised by the public for victims of natural disaster she cashes in?

So, with the $700,000 odd left over from Cyclone Larry, (again, no deaths)...will she cash in again this time, so will be about 1400,000 in front?

Perhaps if she's lucky, people will donate even more,(if they think it's a really really bad cyclone, especially due to recent devastating floods also. Or are the public a little over this already and starting to wake up to their Jedi weather and climate tricks?

She must love 'computer-modelling' (geeks estimating wind speeds/climate data)  in conjunction with the no particular event that can be pinned directly to global warming itself. But there is no arguing with BoM and CSIRO when they produce their hundred years worth of statistics that's for sure.

Re- BoM stats, uncanny how they again, can only refer to computer modelling guestimates, with respects to a cyclone Yasi, not unlike CRU's guestimates with a Climategate affair also.

The central pressure of the system was estimated at 990 hPa. Winds close to the centre and whilst Every computer model is painting the same picture, they cant be entirely sure, because BoM only recorded wind speeds of 185km/h on Willis Island before Cyclone Yasi took out the weather station on the island. Well, allegedly anyway.

You would think they would cyclone proof their instruments, I mean, how many times have we heard the same old story..."Cyclone breaks the instruments at bla bla bla"....

Get real!

And why do these anemometers always seem to break on isolated BoM weather research stations?

Darwin airport experienced 200km + wind speeds a few days ago , and their anemometers aren't even built to withstand the wind speeds our BoM stations 'weatherpreneurs' equipment is built to withstand.

And Darwins equipment dint break, so why did our BoM cyclone proof weather stations?

I think they think we came down with the last shower!

Imagine a pack of independent weather analysts, doing it for themselves Ms Bligh...how do you like those apples?

Instruments that only appear to work sometimes, -vrs- their computer generated models 'guesstimate'.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR412.loop.shtml

Read this....  lol I'm not the only one suspicious of the this cyclones true veracity it seems.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3127925.htm

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See, they don't need accurate readings, just a Cat 5 was good enough for our Bligh!





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All done with mirrors... well, in theory.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cyclones/cyclones.pdf

When conventional equipment fails...

Would this be about right?

If they hadn't evacuated huge numbers of people from the coast, this could have been much worse.  They recorded a storm surge of 10 metres in places.

Innisfail survived pretty well, considering that all their rebuilding after Cyclone Larry was done to a recent cyclone building standard.

Tully was less lucky.

It's still an emergency if you live in the 'Curry or the Isa.

<<She's very personable, a more convincing liar than Gillard,>.
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I'll have to disagree with you there. Something about her grates on me. She's the sort of person you either love or hate, there's no in between, and most Queenslander's hate her. They love her at the moment with her war time camaraderie speeches, but once they see how she sucked them dry and wasted the money they'll go back to hating her.She even makes Peter Beatty look saintly. No mellie, I prefer Gillards lies any day.

And don't worry Pansi, these disasters cant go on forever, and underneath all this post- devastation surrealism, there's a very angry bunch of Queenslanders still who feel this premier has sold them out. Which she has....and as soon as the campaign kicks in, and the opposition reminds them of her pre-'Saintly' ways,  it will be back to hating Bligh as usual.

It wont take much effort to remind them of who she was before all this recent crap.