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- Dec 4, 2004
I'm just thankful the New Year's Eve fireworks went off without a hitch.
Yes, very fortunately the entirely foreseeable fire they started here in Adelaide was only a brush fire and the CFS was able to get it under control quickly, unlike most of the nightmares blazes they've been dealing with (I don't recommend googling Kangaroo Island right now).
My heart is breaking every night when I see the Australia fires on our news. So very scary. Rain, please come. karneI believe you have a family member who is a firefighter. Praying for him and the safety of all the others as well -- and just everyone, including the wildlife.
Rain will wash the topsoil away, dry wind gales will blow the topsoil away, leaving barren, infertile ground behind, and the long hot, dry summer isn't even halfway yet.
I'm just thankful the New Year's Eve fireworks went off without a hitch.
karneI believe you have a family member who is a firefighter. Praying for him and the safety of all the others as well -- and just everyone, including the wildlife.
The wind was already doing a number on the topsoil. But at the moment, getting the fires out is the most important thing. We desperately need rain, especially now that the bigger fires are able to generate their own weather and their own dry thunderstorms.
But no good rain is forecast until April...
Many Australians are disgusted they even went ahead. It was a total fire ban in most places and should not have happened. The Adelaide ones even started a fire of their own, proving that it was dumb and foolish. Sydney's council cared more about their image in the eyes of the world than they did about anything else. No wonder it's taken so long for the rest of the world to pay attention to the severity of what's going on. They must have seen the fireworks and gone "well it can't be that bad"....it is!
Yes. He is out west in the mountains, fighting to stop one of the large ones from getting into the fuel-laden alpine country. He, like his crewmates, is so very, very tired, mentally and physically.
Yes. He is out west in the mountains, fighting to stop one of the large ones from getting into the fuel-laden alpine country. He, like his crewmates, is so very, very tired, mentally and physically.
Seding thoughts and gratitude, more than words can say.
I am in an area as safe as any can be called at the minute, no fires or bush nearby, but the heat yesterday (45C) was horrible and the smoke is now coming from west, from east and from south which means that simple breathing is hazardous if you leave the house, (not that you can see much more than across thr road... it's like there IS a fire right on our doorstop). One relative from the coast is in hospital with pneumonia, his family have had to evacuate... and they can't come to us because the roads are blocked.
And summer has a long way to go.
Thank you all for the thoughts and prayers, my country needs them...
Emotions, compassion, empathy - these are things from the world of people, by definition.
And something you apparently lack.
What is being lost can never be replaced. Australia's ecosystem is unique. It's not just the koalas; many endangered species, which only became so because of humans, will suffer, perhaps irretrievably so.