In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice writes:
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:05:57 +0000, terylene wrote:

There were many warnings and a lot of talk about a "potentially
dangerous" system.

where?

The early warning on the met office site about 5 days ago had words
to that effect.

Surely five days in advance it was perfectly reasonable, indeed prudent,
to flag up the potential for dangerous conditions? The depression did
turn out to be an unusually deep one, though without in the event quite
the destructiveness that might well have resulted from such an intense
feature.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)