Catastrophic Rating

[Alex]

Batten down the hatches!!!

Catasrophic conditions expected on the West Coast.

Panic stations!

[misterteddy]

ahhhh.....it's only catastrophic though....word is that next year there will be a new category of megafrickinomgastophic. Declaration of a day in this category will cause CFS stations to be manned and attending crews to be paid a pollies wage to be on standby, all Group bases will deliver lobster sandwiches to said standby crews, and the SES will set up the Salvos food van and be forced to eat the entire spam inventory

[bajdas]

At least the schools finished for the year on Friday....so DECS do not have to worry about buses & closing school for the day.

[rescue5271]

ABC radio are calling it a code red day....We must be in Victoria...

[Alan J]

ABC radio are calling it a code red day....We must be in Victoria...

Lowest common denominator prevails...
Cataston... Castatro... Castrato... Code Red.   

[rescue5271]

CFA have gone back to calling it a CODE RED after the public became too scared of the Catastrophic days.....

[Alex]

Interesting to note, that unlike the CFS definition of a 'catasrophic' day... thousands of homes and businesses were not lost.

What happened?

[6739264]

Isn't this the CFS definition? Do you know what the term "Potential Impact" means? or are we now using FDR's as a retrospective term?

    * These are the worst conditions for a bush or grass fire.
    * If a fire starts and takes hold, it will be extremely difficult to control and will take significant fire fighting resources and cooler conditions to bring it under control.
    * Spot fires will start well ahead of the main fire and cause rapid spread of the fire.  Embers will come from many directions.
    * Homes are not designed or constructed to withstand fires in these conditions.
    * The safest place to be is away from bushfire prone areas.

[Alex]

I was refering to the original document that CFS issued to Adelaide Fire, which stated that on a day of catastrophic fire danger, hundreds of people would die and thousands of homes would be lost. There original paperwork never had the 'in the case of a fire'... it seemed that people were just going to spontaneously drop.


You seem to have lost your normal sense of humor?

[6739264]

I was refering to the original document that CFS issued to Adelaide Fire, which stated that on a day of catastrophic fire danger, hundreds of people would die and thousands of homes would be lost. There original paperwork never had the 'in the case of a fire'... it seemed that people were just going to spontaneously drop.


You seem to have lost your normal sense of humor?

I am A) Reading SA Firefighter and B) Sober. Of course I'm cranky! You can't do both of those things together!