Storms are continuing to the south around Sydney - different system but still La Nina enhanced. Not in the same league as we've seen but still totals above 100mm per day, for 2-3 days. That should be manageable - in Taiwan it's normal Mei-yu rain (plum rains) - water off a duck's back. In Australia, due to its inferior mitigation-infrastructure, it's a flooding event.

Not surprisingly, but worryingly, the experts, having failed abysmally twice - in one month when it counted, for the Big Ones - have now begun issuing evacuation orders left-right-and-centre.

This is what they really love doing (besides cover-up investigations): enforcing public control measures.

Not doing anything practical to mitigate the problem, coz that would involve fixing it, which is too much trouble, besides, we're incredibly busy covering-up Covid - so now's not the right time.

At least it's a change from the stay-at-home orders, i guess.

Apart from the risks associated with over-abusing evacuation orders, they're easy for the Issuer to issue, but it's another thing for the Issuee to suddenly have to leave home to find alternative accommodation.

The new orders read - this is one i've randomly checked checked now for a ref:

SES: If you remain in the area after 3:00pm Friday 8 April 2022 you may be trapped without power, water and other essential services and it may be too dangerous to rescue you.

Forget about the may be part - you'll be totally abandoned - you can bank on that.

In fact, the current evacuations are nothing more than bureaucratic over-reactions to the previous bungles. The weather forecast for Sydney today (where the orders are in place) is for 8-20mm of rain. Hardly Noah's Ark territory.