Can only keep thinking of this poem...

[ozcmom]

My Country partial

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!....

Today in this sunburnt country...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7877178.stm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5306498/25-killed-victorian-bushfires/

Meanwhile up north there's major flooding, 2 men missing and a boy feared taken by a croc and another cyclone forming...

My Country, by Dorothea Mackellar