Mark Mitchell

I've worked really hard to change that, and I understand what you're saying, but at the end of the day, we don't have the luxury to be complacent about these things.

There is a bit of a she'll be right attitude, and just to give you an example on this one, it didn't hit us as hard as what we anticipated or what was forecast.

That was a good thing.

The system moved out to the East Wall, so we got the fringes of it, but we still had 3,000 people evacuated, 14,000 households without power, dozens of roads closed, hundreds of incidents and rescues performed by... Yeah, but Mark, that's the actual event.

I get the actual event, but what you're doing, it's not you, it's what the media's doing and the Met Service are doing in the ensuing period is scaring people for something that may or may not happen.

They didn't even have a forecast lockdown.

So, Pete, I just think that, number one, the Met Service do an outstanding job, but it's not a perfect science.

And I've been doing this now for two and a half years, trying to anticipate and make decisions around it.

It's really difficult because you've got to make decisions 80% and not 100%.

But the MetService people, they work round the clock and they do all that they can with their modelling to try and give us the best information that they can.

So I'm sorry, but I'm going to stick up for them.

That's fine.

You're allowed to.

But you would side with the MetService that tells me, one, we're not sure yet, but this is what we think is going to happen.

And by the way, change your holiday plans, tie down a trampoline and run for your life.

They're allowed to say that, are they?

Well, I just think that, yes, they are allowed to say that because...

You know, the counter to that is that we start losing lives.

And in this year, I've had two weather events where we've lost people.

People have died.