Well, for once the professional prognosticators and forecasters got it right.

There were of course the usual scoffers and nay-sayers and those who attempted to play down the severity of both the threat of devastation prior to the event itself and in the subsequent aftermath, but they're smirking on the other side of their faces now.

Large swathes of the country have been subjected to the type of ruination and destruction not witnessed on these shores since the mid-1980s.

Havoc was wrought. Homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable, nature uprooted and thousands of households have had to survive without the bare essentials.

But then that's what happens if you put the Tories in power.

You would have thought they would have remembered from last time really but, as is frequently evidenced, people have short memories.

Our politicians are relying on it. Thus we have the Tories regurgitating plans which didn't work last time round with a shiny new presentation that wouldn't fool a particularly gullible toddler on a sugar rush.

We have an opposition desperately hoping no-one remembers what socialism really means, or that it was once one of the party's guiding principles.

And the Lib Dems hoping everyone has forgotten they exist.

In fact the only way that the St Jude storms differed from Con-Dem policy is that they started in the south and only lasted for 24 hours - which is still longer than your average A&E is going to be able to remain open the way they're going.

That and - apart from the most homophobic God-botherer - no-one could argue that the storms were a "deliberate" act of ideological retribution.

Every policy this coalition puts forward, including the ones they nicked from Labour, most definitely is.

A string of acts of destructive revenge and petty-minded sadism and grasping avarice.

And all of them seem to backfire catastrophically. Especially anything that comes within a hundred miles of Iain Duncan Smith.

This week IDS's attempts to desperately and retrospectively rewrite the regulations governing his slave labour Back to Work For Nothing scheme to avoid having to pay millions, if not billions, in compensation to claimants whose benefits had been wrongly slashed came unstuck in hugely embarrassing fashion.

The Department for Work and Pensions, which had previously lost its case in the Court of Appeal and showing that it really doesn't know when to quit, went on to lose again at the Supreme Court.

Britain's top judges unanimously ruled that, while not strictly slave labour, the scheme was unlawful.

Universal credit has been a total cock-up and means IDS can proudly claim to have caused more chaos, confusion and mayhem than any meteorological phenomena since the great flood.

Also this week a new plan has been mooted which would mean scrapping the whole scheme and starting from scratch, at a mere trifling cost of writing off £119 million of work already done.

All of which basically confirms the commonly held belief that if Iain Duncan Smith had never been born we'd all be better off.

He continues to claim that the flagship programme will be delivered on time and on budget, which I'm sure he feels is a Nelsonian response to adversity but in reality makes him more like the Michael Fish of British politics.

"Everything will be fine! Oh, was that your house?"

And speaking of troublesome births, Jeremy Hunt's reincarnation as Health Secretary isn't exactly going smoothly either.

On Monday the Court of Appeal, upholding a previous High Court ruling, agreed that Hunt had overstepped his powers over his planned slashing of A&E and maternity services at Lewisham hospital.

Which probably makes him the only adherant of homeopathy in history to have been found to have exceeded the correct dosage.

Even St Jude, who knew a thing or two about hopeless causes, would have given up on this shower ever getting anything right.