No doubt everyone (in Australia at least) has been glued with horror to their television screens watching the nightmare that has been unravelling in Victoria over the weekend. I still remember as a little kid watching the same nightmare over 25 years ago in the Ash Wednesday fires where 76 people died and over 3000 homes were destroyed. This time sadly the fire has claimed more lives and less houses (770). So far 181 lives have been lost with expectations that the death toll will exceed 300......Australia's worst peacetime disaster. I have been caught in a bush fire before. They are terrifying beasts to witness. They move fast, destroying everything and everyone in their path as quickly as they suck all the oxygen out of the air. Their roar is equally as terrifying. It is hoped that those who died had asphyxiated before the fire took them.
The last two days in Sydney it's been wet and cold and in North Queensland it's flooding. Victoria continues to burn.
The last two days in Sydney it's been wet and cold and in North Queensland it's flooding. Victoria continues to burn.
What a country.
C
Red Cross is accepting donations for the disaster.....http://www.redcross.org.au/ ......please donate.
3 comments:
Ummm, just one tiny little thing..."asphyxiated". :-)
But yes, I think most Australians have been absolutely shocked by the loss of life!
As Dorothea McKellar put it in My Country, it certainly is a land of "flood and fire and famine".
How embarassing! No one should spell check after midnight and a bottle of wine or both.
The worst thing about this tragedy is that it is the work of an arsonist. At least that's what they're reporting here in the States. Prayers for Australia.
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