Rain == “bad weather”
8 Feb 2010 by mjc, No Comments »
What’s with the persistent glass-half-full coverage of weather in the media (particularly when it comes to covering glass-filling rain)?
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/heavy-rain-eases–but-not-for-long-20100208-nl54.html
Sure, flooding and danger are important and newsworthy, but people, we’ve been in drought for years. Sydney’s water storage was literally half-full last week. This rain will mean we can drink, wash, keep gardens growing, and yes, flush. Maybe for a year or two, until the next big downfall.
It’s really not a bad thing, and it would be nice if the news coverage at least mentioned that rather than accentuating the negative.
