Gods...Ash Wednesday actually got topped.

[computer_boy]

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(Short US report and longer Australian report.)

84+ Dead.
700+ Homes Destroyed.

Victoria's WORST BUSHFIRE in recorded history!
(Counting human death tolls - Ash Wednesday had 75 deaths and 3000 homes destroyed, less people killed, and that was 1983

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[computer_boy]

Nor do you see leaders hold those in despair. That poor bloke just let go right in Rudd's arms.

How many people ended up like that with say Blair, Bush or Brown?
(No, not a contest, just a rarity it seems. Bush more so, because he was at 9/11!)

[karibu]

That is so heartbreaking. :( I was reading the news today, and the toll is much higher now. Sooo, so sad. And shocking. It's so.... frustrating that they just can't take some of the water from Queensland and move it slightly...

[computer_boy]

Sadly we're not at that level technologically, otherwise this wouldn't have got out of hand.