Well, we've had it all now, in the past two years. Fires, floods, cyclones and now earthquakes.

Votes for the apocalypse keep rising. 

Just heard the CFA siren go off to call the volunteers to a fire. Lovely to know my stomach'll be tight with anticipation/fear for the next few months.

Fuck.

Winds like you would not believe.

Alfred’s being mean today.

The circle of fire damage goes right around our shire.

The other day someone described the smoke as ‘like an atomic bomb had gone off’ and I could fault them in no way.

Our car's packed with special stuff while we're at work.

Temperature’s supposed to be mid to late 30s (degrees ( Read more... )

People are dead. Children are dead. Reporters suck because they keep interviewing people.

It's worse than Ash Wednesday.

It's the worst fires we've ever had.

Officially the death toll is 131, but we all know it's way more.

Whole towns are wiped out. We've lost so much heritage.

I just hope it all ends soon.

That line will go down in history I think. When the car's half way down the road and the fire's closer to it than you are, it's not the best idea to run over and try to save it.

The fires are bad.

People are dead and dying and its making me think of Hurricane Katrina with how we not even going to be able to search for the bodies until the fires are ( Read more... )

Um, so, we're currently not under threat, but some of our friends live in areas that are. Including a couple who've been building their own house and furnishings for the past couple of years. And the wind is so strong all the fires are moving insanely fast.

Uh, we have scathefires approaching the main powerlines for our state. So, you know, if I dissapear for a while, that could be why.

We can only hope the fire fighters are as good as we know they are.

Thankyou oh great and powerful Jax ( elekanahmen ) for telling us about the 'adopt a word' thing. If you haven't checked it out yet, go to: http://www.savethewords.org/

I just adopted two words:     Rogalian - of, or pertaining to a great fire
                                                  Scathefire - great, destructive fire

So, instead of trying to use the ( Read more... )

Where I was in melbourne yesterday the temperature reached about 45.3 C. Seriously. Come on, I know its summer, but come onI stayed with my nan because dad didn't want her in the heat by herself especially with all the black/brown outs (depending on where you come from, or so I'm told) which were happening all round today. It was only out for an ( Read more... )

At 3 in the afternoon (two hours ago) our thermometer under our veranda IN THE SHADE said it was 41 degrees celcius.

Seriously.

Touch wood, I can't see anything about fires in our area at the moment.