Taken 28th October 2015
I have seen these signs around 'the bush' in Australia and I find the scale used hilarious. It goes 'low-moderate' to CATASTROPHIC!!!!!!!!!! (with a few fewer exclamation marks).
Taken 28th October 2015
I have seen these signs around \'the bush\' in Australia and I find the scale used hilarious. It goes \'low-moderate\' to CATASTROPHIC!!!!!!!!!! (with a few fewer exclamation marks).
Taken 28th October 2015
I have seen these signs around \'the bush\' in Australia and I find the scale used hilarious. It goes \'low-moderate\' to CATASTROPHIC!!!!!!!!!! (with a few fewer exclamation marks).
Taken 28th October 2015
I have seen these signs around \'the bush\' in Australia and I find the scale used hilarious. It goes \'low-moderate\' to CATASTROPHIC!!!!!!!!!! (with a few fewer exclamation marks).
I was commenting that the scale seems to be rather uneven in that the second lowest is 'high' and the word 'extreme' has connotations with being a bit of a joke word being very overused to describe things that aren't really 'extreme'.
Anyhow... good point which I didn't think of at all... sorry
(I can't say that I've seen one on anything other than 'low-moderate' actually)
the signs used to go "low, moderate, high, very high, extreme". In the summer of 2009 the new signs were introduced where the ratings went "low-moderate, high, very high, severe, extreme, catastrophic" (i.e. "low" and "moderate" were combined, and "severe" and "catastrophic" were added new). Some signs have "catastrophic" replaced with "code red".
2009 was the year of the Black Saturday bushfires where over 4,500 km² of land was destroyed in the state of Victoria. 173 people died and 414 were hospitalised . It was the most catastrophic fire season since that of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983 where 75 people died.
