I cannot believe this protracted debate over Tsunami Warning Systems. Talk about if you want nothing done give it to a committee to decide!
Reality Check - in 2004, 300,000 people lost their lives in the Asian Tsunami 10 times that of the devastating Japanese Tsunami.
Why is it that nearly seven years later, warning systems are still being discussed?
This is not just pontificating, it is obscene, yet the old guard still got re-elected in the three Councils last year.
In 2007 when visiting the Manawatu Beach of Himitangi, not a vulnerable area of risk like the Bay, there were Tsunami evacuation signage everywhere to educate locals and visitors, but still nothing here. I am embarassed as a Bay resident and ashamed of our leaders. Clearly sirens have only ever been or should have been common sense in the frontline of the warning system.
Text messaging - poppycock - as a warning tool - eg. have you ever tried to send a text message at midnight on New Year's Eve when everyone else is texting - they take three hours to arrive.
Tim Short, Ohauiti.