Bushfires...

Even up here north of Brisbane Jafo, we've had a funny colour sun for the last couple of days. Rain damn it, rain.

is this your summer season

That's tough, Jafo... not many bushfires here, but the same feeling from an aproaching lava flow maybe.

good luck!

/me hugs your region with love vibes...the 'h20' type...and spreads her healing vibe over all the burning cinders...

On a serious note...

Darling Jafo, I'm so sorry to hear of your worries and fire is a scary, crazy haphazard thing...please be well...keep safe...don't stay if the announcements ask you to leave your area...'things' don't mean your life...life is always more important...

I am hoping you are okay, precious man...

Fire bad, fire BAD

I'm approx 150 miles away from the current fires.
Last week there were closer ones...Melbourne was a tad 'hazy'....sunsets an interesting colour....but it's our alpine region that's copping it at the moment....

zoiks! I am glad you are okay...
/me sprinkles sacred fairy dust around your homestead...

That's truly bad. Just read that Mt. Stromlo observatory was lost in the fire. Certainly not as bad as the loss of life and peoples' homes, but still bad to hear about.

All my prayers to all involved.

Hey, if you had the money, you could buy the sprinkler system that installs onto your house and they've gotten really good results from the new system that they are working on. The new fireproof roofs, sprinkler system on top that covers the house with fresh cold water, and a bunch of stuff.

hey, gues such things ain't going to happen here in holland, but sorry to hear about it jafo

Weaksid....sprinklers and/or fire-retardant paints, etc will do nothing against a firestorm...when a front is 20 miles long...

Umm, Build a bomb shelter and live in it till it passes.. And make sure your wired for the computer

http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/41/0c012841.asp

One link I found on the fire Proof house if your interested

To clarify the situation in Canberra, the Australian Capitol Teritory, 400 homes destroyed, plus the RSPCA and Fire Department buildings(!!!) and counting.
The population of the area is 300,000 in round figures. >
At 1600 on Saturday the smoke was so dense the street lights were on and cars needed their headlights.
Impossible for water bombing as the visibility for flying was virtually zero ...... just finished speaking to a friend who resides in the inner area and the bulk of the infrastructure we take for granted is either gone or going, water supplies are low, most power down, even the number of Fire Department vehicles is inadequate and the Police are thin on the ground.
Sydney two years in a row and now Canberra, with the Alpine National Park areas taking off now, these fires are quite some distance from where Jafo and the Wombat live, but with 40C predicted this week I get the feeling Victoria is about to get hit very shortly........not a pleasant thought.

That's bad

Yesterdays sunset looked pretty... unique...

The sun had clouds in front of it, but the sun was still shining through.

Very wierd. At the time I had no idea it could've been because of bushfires, but now that I think about it.

Anyway, I hope the fires go out soon. I'd hate to think what would happen to the country if Parliment House burns down .

Nasty. What is the source of it anyway? Some dope playing with matches or just the shear drought?

Some was down to lightning strike...but we have been known to be decimated by delinquent juveniles with a love of matches....kids I personally would drown at birth.
The sooner arson is made a capital offence, the better...

You see the pathetic destruction of fauna on a massive scale and you think 'some prat caused that....a bullet to the head would be 'just'.'...

I thought this was gonna be another "US attacks Iraq" thread (Bush fires!)

Every evening Fox News shows the fires in Australia, and I always think about the "Aussies" I have gotten to know on this message board, and hope that you are all safe. I also think about all of the marvelous wildlife there that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, and grieve for them.

I live within half a mile of the files that went through the Holsworthy Army base here in Sydney last month.

I was pretty scary then, but the fires down in Canberra are 10 times more scary!!

The thing that angers me the most is that most of the fires we have had here on the south-east coast of australia over the last 3 months have been deliberately lit! It was the same story last year, and the year before, and the year before that......

I think if they catch the people responsible, they should strap them all to wooden chairs, strike a match, and give them a taste of their own medicine!! >

Have a nice day!

We had a lot of wild fires here in Florida a few years back, but you guys are really getting it bad...I remember that the air was thick with smoke all the time. It got to be so bad that an entire county was evacuated at one time, Glad that's over with!

Dang Jafo i have been watching this on CNN, Really sad