I am sick of making depressing lj posts. The fires are still fucking burning. There's also a danger that Melbourne's main water supply could be contaminated if the fires spread towards that particular dam. This just makes me LOL, I don't know why. It's like could this get any worse? Well, actually, YES! Maybe it'd be the hilarity of normal life ( Read more... )

The fires are still burning and the death toll keeps rising. And it will keep rising as they find more bodies. So I have stopped updating my various posts to reflect the current information, because it's just too depressing ( Read more... )

News and updates + heartbreaking photos and audio here. Death toll now stands at 108, but is expected to rise. 750 homes destroyed.

If you would like to help out, please make a donation to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal. For other avenues to make donations, nixwilliams has listed some useful information here.

And if you do make a donation, please then let karenhealey ( Read more... )

Watching the news, eating dinner, tears because I can't watch that kind of devastation and not be affected by it. Whole towns gone. Marysville. Kinglake. Beechworth threatened, Stanley - where my mum and I were only picking berries last month - is also threatened, and if the wind changes, also Yackandanda, which is a town I love ( Read more... )