Saturday, January 11, 2014

Speaking of weather: where does the buck stop?

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11 comments:

Son-of-man said...

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Josie,

My heart bleeds to see how toxic you have become in the twilight of your days on this planet.

Earl Bousquet, Peter Josie, and the Ninny, pushed their finger into the sand at Choc and like a magnet, Earl's finger came out attracting the precious metal gold, but yours and the embittered Leary's had something brown and stinky on them.

You and the Ninny-Plato at the rag are the physical manifestation of Cynicism, blinded to the magnificent Leadership of the Labour Government and stellar performance of Dr. Anthony, never able to see the good qualities in your fellowman, while never failing to see the bad ones.

Like an old Owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, existing on a diet of mice, “bètannipyé”, vermin, and never seeing the noble game.

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January 12, 2014 at 5:24 AM
OPTICAL. said...

The whole history of one pre-historic human is summarize in one sentence.

God created a second traitor in the form of a dog name Peter Judas Josie.

JOSIE U ARE "unique" THE ONLY ONE IN ALL OF CREATION.

January 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM
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January 12, 2014 at 11:26 AM
Anonymous said...

Everyone is entitled to have a different opinion to Peters writing.
But the point he making,"the buck have to stop by somebody" is absolute correct. People must be accountable for his/her failure and personal consequences must follow.

January 13, 2014 at 8:32 AM
Unknown said...

The weather event of Christmas Eve was expected, however what was not expected was the significant amount of rainfall it would bring.

Meteorology is an interdisciplinary study of the atmosphere and is by no means an exact science at this point in human history. The variables involved in predicting weather are complex. Even in the United states with the ready availability of doppler radar, their weathermen struggle to give more than ten minutes warning of tornadoes. Yet no one is held to blame when tornadoes touchdown on the midwestern planes with scant warnings from the met services.

On the day in question a surface trough was predicted to affect the island. We are affected by several troughs throughout the year. Troughs come with varying amounts of rainfall. It is outside the ability and scope of any met service worldwide to predict the amount of rainfall possible. In our case the met office of saint lucia did its due diligence and issued the appropriate warnings of the potential for flash flooding as it usually does.

For those of us who argue that it was the standard warning, I would respond that all the met offices warnings are standard warnings be it for a trough, a depression or a tropical storm.

The desire to appoint blame to specific individuals is a natural recourse of humans in the face of adverse events. It absolves us from personal responsibiliy for our apathy in the face of warnings, or even the dangers we ignore when choosing the location and construction of our homes and businesses. We honestly believe that levying sanctions against an individual will ensure that any perceived problems are solved.

While we are busy assigning blame, we miss an opportunity to take a more systematic approach to shoring up shortfalls in our country's mechanisms to deal with adverse weather events, both on a national and individual level.

Weather is indeed predictable but only to a certain extent. Let us educate ourselves on the realities of the world of science and technology in which we live in today. Not just its advantages. But also its limitations.

January 14, 2014 at 7:47 AM
Anonymous said...

All of a sudden; you JOsie cannot call a spade; a spade. Trying to be diplomatic.

January 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM
Anonymous said...

The fact is; the Martiniquue Officials; exposed the lies of the St. Lucian officials; big time.

Lots of talk; but very incompetent are those Lucians in public office.
The fact is DAWN FRENCH and the Minister responsible for Disaster Preparedness MUST BE SENT HOME. That is to say; they ought to be both FIRED.

January 14, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Josie man, you have a whole year to talk your shit. The year just start and you are at it already?

January 16, 2014 at 3:56 PM
Anonymous said...

If a system is down then a head of a department should look out on all different possibele radar informations and not just to wait til the normal website is back in operation :-((
How Peter Josie says: the buck have to stop somewhere.

January 17, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...

Saint Lucians can really talk shate you know. In the US, some meteorologists find the need to consult up to FIVE separate models to get a handle on the expected weather pattern. In Saint Lucia the report depends upon just one from the Caribbean Met Institute. If there is a breakdown, what value is there in shooting shate about seeking out or relying on non-existing sources of weather information?

January 17, 2014 at 4:40 PM
Anonymous said...

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

January 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM

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