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- BuddhaHat0
Online donations through the Red Cross here http://www.redcross.org.au/defau…
- BannedKappa0
Bad day in Victoria
http://www.redcross.org.au/
- MrOneHundred0
Scary stuff down there. Floods in Nth Qld. Hope it cools down soon.
- fiver0
damn, the shit is scary... but shouldn't they just evacuate all over now? do people really believe turning on your garden hose is going to stop a wall of flames? thanks for the link autoflavour
- thumb_screws0
Some places where you can help out.
http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/s…
- autoflavour0
its hard to say.. in some cases its just the embers which cause the fires.. and you can fight embers with garden hoses..
but in this instance a ember storm.. well.. i dont think you have a chance
- 23kon0
Really nice start to that video your friend made royboy
The heat distorting what we are seeing.
kind of reminded me of UNKLE "eye for an eye" video where the big monster is delivered by aeroplanes.We've not had much footage on the news about these fires in Australia as aparently London has had snow and some roads in the midlands are closed and that is more important news for us to see 24/7 it seems.
It does seem mad that legislations have been brought in to stop the burning of bush that has gone on for thousands of years. a process which promotes growth and the health of the land.
- BannedKappa0
- F**K!
The poor people didn't stand a chance. Just a massive wall of fire!RoyBoyII
- F**K!
- MrOneHundred0
I really hope I don’t offend anyone with this not-totally-university-degree-re... opinion, but they National Parks have to be allowed to do back-burning and clearance burning during winter. IMHO, this type of fire would never happen. Ever.
- *not totally university degree researched opinionMrOneHundred
- uh they do back burning all the time, do you even live in Australia?autoflavour
- Not in National parks or State Forests. I live in Australia.MrOneHundred
- itsmitch0
fuck the asshole that started these. bring back public hangings!
- V Ah, I am talking about back-burning (below), not hanging. I’m with you on that, somewhat.MrOneHundred
- sikma0
sometimes there's nowhere to evacuate too. you can drive as fast as like in any direction only to run into another wall of flames.
- MrOneHundred0
I believe they are currently not able to do so due to Conservation and Environmental Management policies. This, to me is ludicrous. The indigenous population had been setting fire to bushlands during winter and wet seasons for tens of thousands of years in order to regenerate the forests and cull animal populations which were over-breeding. The Australian bushland has, over that time, adapted to this method and it is only since these policies or “laws” came in that we have seen these types of bushfires. There are vast areas of land which have had 30 years build-up of undergrowth and leaf-litter, fallen trees, and general over-growing. I firmly believe these factors are the reasons, coupled with hot windy weather conditions, why these fires are so big and spread so quickly.
But I don’t have any fancy degrees or anything, so what the fuck would I know.
- BusterBoy0
Curious as to what sort of coverage this is getting in the US. I was watching the NBC Today Show from Sunday morning and it hardly rated a mention.
- NotByHand0
I've seen it all over the news here (US) today.
CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC
- livelikebruce0
What a terrible situation. I don't know what to say.
- BuddhaHat0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-…
In Kinglake, where witnesses said most of the town was destroyed, one woman quoted by the Melbourne Age described the arrival of a badly burnt man and his daughter seeking shelter on a patch of open ground.
"He had skin hanging off him everywhere and his little girl was burnt, but not as badly as her dad, and he just came down and he said 'Look, I've lost my wife, I've lost my other kid, I just need you to save [my daughter],'" she said.
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How awful.- My mind is just screaming at the attempt to process this. I can’t even comprehend.MrOneHundred
- BusterBoy0
My brother in law in Kinglake said he was sitting there watching TV...absolutely no warning. He was alerted by a neighbour...they went outside to be confronted by the terrible noise of the fireball approaching. 29 now dead in his small town...just so random.
- toe_knee0
so sad. we only found out about this on the way back from a 3 day festival. turned on the radio in the car and heard it was 150 ppl dead. we were all a bit tender and got a bit emotional. Poor poor people caught up in that.