02-10-2009
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Location: Sydney Australia
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She's a hard land....
Over 300 dead, hundreds of thousands of hectares burnt out, incalculable loss of livestock and native animals. People simply perished in their cars as they tried to flee the inevitable. What chance do koalas and yes even wombats have when a fire moves so quickly that it can outrun the fastest horse ? The worst fires in Oz since they started keeping records.
Entire towns have simply ceased to exist.
Meanwhile in far north Queensland the place is six feet under water , whole townships evacuated and more rain to come.
Temperatures in Tasmania are the highest ever recorded.
The other day, my mother, who lives in the mountains west of Sydney told me it was 110 in the shade outside her kitchen.
and they reckon that up to half the fires were deliberately lit......tell me this, What kind of a moron deliberately starts a bushfire ?
One fella who was arrested turned out to be a volunteer fire fighter. He started the fire then reported to his own squad so that he could go out and fight it. How's that for a dark and twisted mind ?
It's a hard land but the people will return, they'll rebuild and they'll carry on cos despite our somewhat laconic nature this is our home and we love her. She'll turn round and bite you on the bum if you're not careful but after all is said and done, we wouldn't trade 'er for quids.
(quid....Oz slang for a pound which was our original currency)
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Last edited by tdw; 02-10-2009 at 10:02 PM.
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