I certainly will not forget. I am astounded at the lack of reporting and ignoring of this massive disaster, along with the Iraqi/Iranian border earthquake and the Greek floods in more recent weeks. I can't understand why the Portuguese fires are not getting more attention. Most people hadn't even heard of them until the sky turned red!Is it that the British public have stopped caring? Once upon a time the BBC and Sky would be covering something so near 24/7. I don't know. Even the Californian and Australian fires get little more coverage. I seem to know far too many people experiencing such things - 2 years ago my friends were evacuated as the bush fires were coming - she left with their two small boys but he stayed on with water, and the fires clipped their property, the gardens, but the wind changed direction, else I dread to think what would have happened to him in his stubborn macho attitude if it hadn't. He's not even usually one of those type of men, if you know what I mean? And my step brother's mother in law had to throw all she could into her car and just leave her house to be consumed by the Californian fires. Compared to you, she was lucky, there were warnings, and she and her husband were able to at least save treasured family items.
The excuse appears to be that less than 50 people died.....
People do strange things in the face of imminent disaster. One of our friends had to drag her husband to the car - he sat on their 'deck' with a G&T assuring her and the world that it would all be all right... And another friend actually went back to his house to drag his gas bottles outside....
Less that five people in a flood, other natural disaster or accident in a public place or of course an attack in the UK would warrant a mass news24 hour coverage and questions in the parliament!
I sometimes wonder how I would behave - when fire alarms have gone off in hotel rooms I've grabbed my daughter's soft toys and not my purse...!
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People do strange things in the face of imminent disaster. One of our friends had to drag her husband to the car - he sat on their 'deck' with a G&T assuring her and the world that it would all be all right... And another friend actually went back to his house to drag his gas bottles outside....
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I sometimes wonder how I would behave - when fire alarms have gone off in hotel rooms I've grabbed my daughter's soft toys and not my purse...!
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