storm? what storm?

Received this via the uni's mass mailing list:

October 17, 2005
Due recent storm activity, we have lost connectivity to the Oat Mountain transmitter. The loss of connectivity to this transmitter has caused for our users to miss their pages in the following areas:

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[snip], our maintenance support vendor, has been made aware of the situation. Unfortunately, due to the rain, they are unable to reach the mountain top. We will have to wait until the weather clears up and the roads become accessible.

Ha ha ha! Storm?! Noticed that on the news last night too: abc had a "Storm Watch", which made me laugh so hard I nearly chundered up my dinner. OK, there's been some thunder/lightning, but it's been just a bit of rain so far. It used to rain a lot more and a lot more heavily in S'pore (typical tropical weather). I think the weathermen like to "big up" the weather here, to make themselves appear more important.