Where is the warning system to alert us that there are looters and bludgers about? People who pester and hassle the council to get them to force other people to 'do” and 'pay” for things they want.
They are more of a threat to our everyday lives and property than any tsunami.
Warning sirens for the coastal area are yet another example of the 'What's the Council going to do about it!” syndrome.
Council don't have the monopoly on saving your life! Council won't drown in a tsunami - you will!
If you value your life (and you should - it is your most valuable possession) then its time to stop passing the buck to somebody who loses nothing if you lose your most valuable possession and do something about it - and I don't mean complain to the council.
People in the danger zone should get together, form a committee, do some fundraising and organise something ASAP.
They don't because Council/bureaucrats have taken responsibility for their lives, and personally I wouldn't trust the council/bureaucrat with the life of a hamster, let alone my most valuable possession.
If you wait for the council to 'do something about it” (it is 'your” life that is in danger remember) you'll be washed out to sea and drown - Try complaining and asking 'What's the Council going to do about it” then!
We have cultivated and encouraged a life of council and government dependency and it is sickening to observe the looters and bludgers wringing their hands and complaining. If you were to spend as much energy doing something constructive as you do demanding 'What's the Council going to do about it!” you would have 100s of the bloody things by now!
Graham Clark, Kaimai.