"Hanrahan" by John o'Brien
"We’ll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out.
The droughts, frosts, fires and floods cycle, a bit like the boom and bust cycle, is the basic weather cycle.
Emergency Procrastination
As I sat on the back patio barking at ANY strangers going by.
My apologies, it was the dog doing the barking.
Late last night I finished reading a book about communication and data.
While I was having my early morning coffee watching the sun rise over the beautiful long eastern vista, my mind wandered some twenty or so years into the past.
We had attended a road accident, where there were police, ambulances, SES, Fire brigade, and shire officers, all with jobs to do.
One of the stand-out features of this emergency was the inability of the groups to communicate with each other.
Except by “Runners”
i.e. people who ran with messages between each group.
Strangely they all had the same brand of HF radios that could communicate anywhere from next door to a few thousand kilometres but they didn’t have a common frequency for any emergency.
The only reason for this stupidity was the individual organisations’ insistence on security and that created those dreaded information silos.
Fast forward 20-something years and nothing has changed, there is still practically no interagency emergency communication.
This is dedicated procrastination