126 people dead and 750 homes lost, and still counting (http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/126-dead-as-fires-continue-to-rage/2009/02/09/1234027889048.html)
The saddest image I've seen so far:
(http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6477473,00.jpg)
big
WOW! Awful, I hope you and your friends and family are safe.
Quote from: howie on February 08, 2009, 08:38:50 PM
WOW! Awful, I hope you and your friends and family are safe.
I'm fine - I'm 600miles away from those fires, and the ones closer to me are not nearly so bad - but I'm particularly touched by this, in two hours yesterday afternoon I got news of three houses belonging to people I know being lost... No loss of life amongst my social circle, but three homes destroyed...
big
Disaster is pretty indiscriminate...
Glad you're safe big
The number keeps climbing everytime I see it!!
I believe it was 84 yesterday. :-[
Very sad!
135 now
Deeply saddened by this horrible disaster, hope you keep safe Ian [thumbsup]
:'(
Be prepared as best you can. If they say get out, then get out.
having lived through the san diego fires in 2003 and 2007, everyone facing this has my deepest sympathy. i wouldn't
wish that on anyone.
Every hour or so i check the BBC and the numbers just keep climbing
171 now
and talk of arson
Quote from: Mother on February 09, 2009, 06:57:48 AM
Every hour or so i check the BBC and the numbers just keep climbing
171 now
and talk of arson
Yeah. Sick bastards.
What a horrible thing to go through - all those homes, and worse, such a high death toll :'(. Glad you and yours are safe big.
:'(
(http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090210/capt.6c88fbc6080148638d5036d80e449907.aptopix_australia_wildfires_mel101.jpg?x=400&y=298&q=85&sig=yj2WwheJ1kC.lvCO_48V3A--)
mitt
:'( Thoughts and prayers...
Awesome pic there mitt
Awesome pic Mitt, there's a reserved special spot in that guys preconcieved notion of the afterlife paradise [thumbsup]
JM
Some pics from boston.com...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html)
Those are some impressive pictures. Interesting how the molten metal has run from the wheels & axles on the cars ~
JM
Amazing photos.
Hopefully they get that fire under control soon
Wow, just devastating. Some of those pics remind me of when I came back to New Orleans after Katrina - whole neighborhoods just gone.
I'm at the other end of the scale, I'm at the top of Australia and we have only just had flood waters start to drop enough for supplies to get through, our supermarkets have had no supplies for 11 days, no mail getting through, nearly 110 semi trailers sitting down south loaded up with food and supplies for nearly 2 weeks, they only just got through yesterday and they are talking of more rain and closing the roads again in another couple of days!
Only a couple of people have died because of the flooding, we are pretty used to it up here in Northern Australia, Same drill every year, Stock up the fridge/freezer/pantry as it will rain and it will flood.
Some properties out west will be cut off for 2 to 3 months every year thanks to the wet season.
We have not had a wet season like this for 20 years.
But, it's a minor issue when compared to the bush fires.....
Quote from: CairnsDuc on February 11, 2009, 01:00:15 PM
I'm at the other end of the scale, I'm at the top of Australia and we have only just had flood waters start to drop enough for supplies to get through, our supermarkets have had no supplies for 11 days, no mail getting through, nearly 110 semi trailers sitting down south loaded up with food and supplies for nearly 2 weeks, they only just got through yesterday and they are talking of more rain and closing the roads again in another couple of days!
Only a couple of people have died because of the flooding, we are pretty used to it up here in Northern Australia, Same drill every year, Stock up the fridge/freezer/pantry as it will rain and it will flood.
Some properties out west will be cut off for 2 to 3 months every year thanks to the wet season.
We have not had a wet season like this for 20 years.
But, it's a minor issue when compared to the bush fires.....
Yep, strange bloody country we live in [roll]. And what about the croc that came in from the estuary into flood waters and claim a five year old boy. That poor kid. :'(