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Whether this is a true post or not-Want all our people Down-Under
to know 'tis a true hug from me to you and all your wild life

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Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minister is a climate change denier which doesn’t help.

Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minis..."

Yes, we have an Idiot too....have you not swept your forest floors lately...such a-holes

Thanks, Joanne.

It's cut close to home and though all's ok now, fire services still patrols our areas regularly. We hear the drone of their trucks every couple of hours drive past our street. We are ever more thankful that we've been spared and so heartbroken over those who've lost their homes.

Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minister is a climate change denier which doesn’t help...."

Oh, yikes. It's crazy watching it on tv. :-(

Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minis..."

I can't believe that anyone can be a denier after this.

Sadly we see our share of fires in Northern California and the chief executive of our nation claims it is because we are not raking our forests.

I'm hoping that this is not going to be completely devastating for the wildlife of Australia.

It's been just over two months since I had fire burn right to my back fence. I become anxious just reading the Australian news. I have zero patience for the callused and corrupt politicians who mislead, and misinform the public and use such devastating destruction to enhance their own political objectives.

Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minis..."

Yes, I've heard this. I've also heard that it was made illegal to continue the very old planned burn offs to help prevent this type of terrible spreading (I understand that the Aboriginals used to do this and also some others) which made it much easier for the fires to spread.

It's one thing to disagree on WHY climate change, but it's inane to deny the obvious :)

I am glad you are both fine but am heartbroken for all of the loss and tragedy.

This is quite thoughtful Joanne. Add my hopes and prayers.

I do worry about my Aussie friends. These wildfires are horrific in every way, and these Idiot politicians need to stop deliberately being idiots.

Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idiot Prime Minis..."

I am so glad you are in a safe area, Susie. I've been wondering about that, but assumed you were okay based on our FB connection.

So sorry for all of the scary devastation. My father lives in California which also has a lot of fires, and it makes me nervous even though he's not that close to the affected areas. I do feel badly for the wildlife and the residents!

I have to say that I'm noticing more birds flying around closer to the house the past week... like really close! They're not usually that close because there are heaps of trees across the road. Poor things...

And bees by the back porch... everything so parched, I've put out some water for them. It's cooled down today, 26C is the forecast but who knows if any proper rain is going to come.

The smoke haze is very prominent today where we are, and we are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest fires. It shows how the fires really are.

*prolific

Susie wrote: "The smoke haze is very prominent today where we are, and we are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest fires. It shows how the fires really are."

So sad...

Susie wrote: "The smoke haze is very prominent today where we are, and we are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest fires. It shows how the fires really are."

The smoke is really unhealthy. When the Paradise fire happened in California, many schools closed. The community college I work at was closed for a week. We were about 100 miles (160 kilometers) away from that.

For those of us in the US to get an idea of the scope of the fires in Australia , i just looked it up and it said:

Bushfires raging across Australia have burned more than 12 million acres—an area approximately the size of the U.S. states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

Susie wrote: "The smoke haze is very prominent today where we are, and we are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest fires. It shows how the fires really are."

A Shelfari (which of course is no more) friend in NZ sent me photos of smoke in the air where she lives that has come from Australia. That's even farther than when there was smoke in New England from Québec.

I just posted a few pics in the group photo album of the beach where we are staying, before and after the haze. It feels apocalyptic.


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Hazy even here in Wellington - and the moon has been blood red with the smoke. Looks like something out of a horror movie. The sky in Auckland was orange yesterday. The photos out of Australia are nightmarish though

Aren’t they? The PM finally announced a 2 billion dollar package today. FINALLY!

Would have been helpful five months ago when the fires started ... but thank goodness it’s coming now

Our congregation added a prayer for Australia's citizens at yesterday's service. Just devastating.

And in a few months we'll be back in hurricane season in the US ... used to be unusual to get to the J's in naming. Now we're practically at the end of the alphabet every year.

... off topic Susie-but, quite the handsome fella you have there!😁

So terrible. Glad you are not in danger, Susie, but I feel really sad for all the displaced people and the wildlife.

Susie wrote: "I just posted a few pics in the group photo album of the beach where we are staying, before and after the haze. It feels apocalyptic. "

Apocalyptic is a word that has gone through my head as I've seen the pictures on tv and online. :'(

Book Concierge wrote: "And in a few months we'll be back in hurricane season in the US ... used to be unusual to get to..."

:'( Yup, no such thing as climate change.

annapi wrote: "So terrible. Glad you are not in danger, Susie, but I feel really sad for all the displaced people and the wildlife."

The wildlife. It's almost incomprehensible. Half a billion, I've heard. :'(

I'm also fine. Living in the centre of Sydney, far away from national parks.
In december there were few days of such bad air quality the kids had to stay in the classrooms and not play outside. The city was brown and filled with people with masks. It looked very end-of-the-world (especially while reading Dry - which is a drought disoptia.
Times are scary. there are towns with drought that the levels of their water is so low they have high amounts of arsenic in their water because of leftover from gold rush days.
The fire is insane and relentless
and then there could be just as easily floods that cover cities.
The drought means that once rain finally comes there are landslides.
scary.

My little girl and two of her friends decided to do a lemonade stand to collect money for people suffering from the bushfires.
They baked (with a bit of help) and squeezed lemons and made signs and we went to a small playground, and they approached random adults in the streets and brought them to the stall and managed to collect $156.55. People were happy to give them extra and were friendly and chatty and it was really lovely.
They donated $100 to a st vinnies appeal (which help people who suffer from the fires) and $56.66 to a wildlife rescue.
It was really cool.

As a contrast - I'm working for one of Rupert Murdoch's papers. They are busy as always ignoring the issues and putting coal and greed before anything else. Today we had extra security on our building because there was a climate protest in the city.

Idit, how beautiful is your little girl? It’s wonderful that she has such compassion at a young age. You are obviously doing a good job.

Joanne, I think so too!

Susie wrote: "Idit, how beautiful is your little girl? It’s wonderful that she has such compassion at a young age. You are obviously doing a good job.

Joanne, I think so too!"😁

Idit wrote: "I'm also fine. Living in the centre of Sydney, far away from national parks.
In december there were few days of such bad air quality the kids had to stay in the classrooms and not play outside. Th..."

What a fine little woman you are raising Idit!

Karin wrote: "Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets better. Our idi..."

We do still back-burn and have fire-breaks in the NT. Some of our plants actually need fire to release the seed. Every dry season we have kids pulled out of school to go fight fires around their properties. We used to have one community of kids and teachers who were stranded at home in the wet each year too (so we sent their work to the pub for a pub mini-school), that hasn't happened in the last 6 years.
Seriously scary changes.

Idit wrote: "I'm also fine. Living in the centre of Sydney, far away from national parks.
In december there were few days of such bad air quality the kids had to stay in the classrooms and not play outside. Th..."

How old is this angel? What a lovely thing to do.

Jen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse before it gets b..."

Thanks for the info--I had thought it was a country wide ban. We have trees in North American that require fire in order to release seeds as well.

Karin wrote: "Jen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Susie wrote: "Thanks Joanne. We are lucky enough to be located in an unaffected area. It is just devastating and so widespread. The evidence is that it will get worse befo..."

Not everyone is allowed to burn up here, only park rangers, traditional owners etc and only at the start of the dry. The aim is small controlled fires early in the season rather than uncontrolled fires late in the season which go out of control because everything is so dry.
There is also a massive push to remove gamba grass because it is non-native to the area and burns hotter and higher than the native grasses.
So two-pronged attempt to control fires here with removal of the fuel load through weeding and through controlled burns in some areas.