Australian Politics Forum - Summer of Bushfires v 2.0

Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84496 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Dec 21^st, 2024 at 9:22am https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/leave-immediately-emergency-warning-as-... Dear oh, dear - all those empty soft drink bottles lying around for years and suddenly starting fires...
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Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0
Reply #1 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 10:55am

These bush fires started early at the onset of just one hot day!
I says to other half, why? There’s no lightening they can blame!

Here’s a report from a Facebook friend she wrote 14 hours ago…

Everyone take care and stay away from Gippy hwy near Gurdies on the way to Phillip Island! Huge fires and we got stuck on the freeway with fires on both sides and trapped in because of those dumb ass side rails! Road is blocked and no warning, honestly the most frightening experience I’ve had! Please don’t attempt to head that way and take care! We finally got diverted and had to come home - safe now ❤️

Our skies were pinky weird colour and sun was red.
I’m nervous where we live. Hubby slashed property again and gave grass the shortest crew cut! I’m certain our local CFA will be impressed Grin

Thinking of getting all photos etc and putting in storage for summer.

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Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0
Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 1:30pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 10:55am:

These bush fires started early at the onset of just one hot day!
I says to other half, why? There’s no lightening they can blame!

Here’s a report from a Facebook friend she wrote 14 hours ago…

Everyone take care and stay away from Gippy hwy near Gurdies on the way to Phillip Island! Huge fires and we got stuck on the freeway with fires on both sides and trapped in because of those dumb ass side rails! Road is blocked and no warning, honestly the most frightening experience I’ve had! Please don’t attempt to head that way and take care! We finally got diverted and had to come home - safe now ❤️

Our skies were pinky weird colour and sun was red.
I’m nervous where we live. Hubby slashed property again and gave grass the shortest crew cut! I’m certain our local CFA will be impressed Grin

Thinking of getting all photos etc and putting in storage for summer.

I'm gearing up to do another movie of it - hopefully with better stuff than last time. Changing computers gave me some corrupted videos.... buggar. So that's how many big fires in Victoria at the moment?

Just one high population area now:-

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84496 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 1:35pm Here's for Victoria:- https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 41814	Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Reply #4 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:01pm No one seems to care about Western Australia. They have just had a massive bushfire to the north of the city that required an evacuation of an entire town and it doesn't even rate a mention in the MSM back east or here. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48178 Gender:	Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:10pm It's natural for Australia to burn. Trying to stop it is unnatural. Gotta learn to adapt to it Or you'll perish.
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Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0
Reply #6 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:12pm

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:01pm:

No one seems to care about Western Australia. They have just had a massive bushfire to the north of the city that required an evacuation of an entire town and it doesn't even rate a mention in the MSM back east or here. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

WA is so … way over there away from the rest of us … almost a country in their own.
So far away in fact that any bushfires, tsunamis etc don’t affect us or come anywhere near us.

Let me tell you who else gets absolutely no mention in USA.
Canada!
I actually noticed this back in 2016 when we were touring the Rockies … Canada had its worst wildfires!
On US TV…. Only saw about debate between Trump and Hilary. That’s it!
Not a single empathic word for their neighbouring country!

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 8461	Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Reply #7 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:14pm Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 1:35pm: Here's for Victoria:- https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/ Oh that reminds me… better put the fire warning app up and running on mobile phone!
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84496 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Summer of Bushfires v 2.0 Reply #8 - Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:26pm Jasin wrote on Dec 21^st, 2024 at 2:10pm: It's natural for Australia to burn. Trying to stop it is unnatural. Gotta learn to adapt to it Or you'll perish. I thought it was all that cunning Aboriginal burning ......
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