Australia fires: two people dead, 100+ homes destroyed

[Hugh O'D]

4 hours ago, Stee said:

  🏃🏻‍♀️........🕷 
HATE SPIDERS!!! ..I’m moving! Lol

Had a whitetail spider in my bed a few nights ago! 😭 
 

Me too. Whitetail Spiders eating other Spiders is good ...so long as I don't have to see it. Most bites coming from Whitetail Spiders when they were hiding in bedlinen, clothes and towels is 

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3 Firefighters From U.S. Are Killed as Air Tanker Crashes in Australia.

 

The plane was being used to fight bush fires south of the capital, Canberra, where the airport was closed because of approaching blazes.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/australia/plane-crash-fires.html

 

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[Medit8]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-swelters-as-severe-wind-warning-issued-ahead-of-sweaty-night-20200123-p53tyh.html

 

It's far from over.

[Stee]

5 hours ago, Hugh O'D said:

Me too. Whitetail Spiders eating other Spiders is good ...so long as I don't have to see it. Most bites coming from Whitetail Spiders when they were hiding in bedlinen, clothes and towels is 

I hate them..this is the first time I’ve ever had one in my bed! It was one of the big ones too! 😭 Lately the house has been full of spiders..must be the weather! 😤 

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Not fire related, but crazy Aussy extremes:

"Drone footage over the central New South Wales town of Parkes has captured a huge wall of dust moving across the landscape. Damaging winds produced by thunderstorms across the state whipped up the dust storms, turning daytime into night in some towns..."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/jan/20/drone-footage-shows-massive-dust-storm-sweeping-across-central-new-south-wales-video

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[Lee49]

Why would somebody do this? As if Australia doesn't have enough problems to contend with!

 

An Australian runner found dangerous spikes hidden on a popular nature trail

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/world/austrlain-homemade-spikes-trnd/index.html

 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

27 minutes ago, Lee49 said:

Why would somebody do this? As if Australia doesn't have enough problems to contend with!

 

An Australian runner found dangerous spikes hidden on a popular nature trail

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/world/austrlain-homemade-spikes-trnd/index.html

 

 

One word: Satan.

Like father, like son.  

[hatcheckgirl]

To stop Trail bike riders maybe? Idiots. 

[Lee49]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-51304687/australia-fires-footage-shows-speed-fires-can-spread

[GeordieGirl]

My stepfather just died in England and his son, who lives in Canberra, flew over on Tuesday, arriving early Thursday morning 30 minutes before his father passed away.

 

His house in Australia is now right in the path of the latest Canberran bushfire. He has a friend looking after the property and animals, including his wife's horses, but the police won't let her on to the property, that''s how close it is. He is feeling helpless and while he lies awake in the early hours of the morning, in England.

 

 

[hatcheckgirl]

I’m so sorry to hear of your stepfather’s passing, Terri. My deepest condolences. How awful for you brother undergoing this double tragedy. Can only offer my prayers that he is spared the worst. Big hugs sis! ❤️

[Lee49]

 

 

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[Hugh O'D]

On 1/30/2020 at 1:59 AM, Lee49 said:

Hard Core Slugs

If even a Bushfire can't get rid of slugs it's no wonder I can't get them out of the wife's garden. 

[hatcheckgirl]

Good rains have finally come, “breaking the back” of the bushfires. Flooding and torrential rain expected for mostly coastal regions, but not nearly enough in the drought affected areas out west. 
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/from-fires-to-floods-nsw-emergency-crews-prepare-for-dangerous-and-soggy-weekend?cx_cid=edm:newsam:2019

[Hugh O'D]

14 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Flooding and torrential rain expected for mostly coastal regions, but not nearly enough in the drought affected areas out west. 

Glad you're getting some rain, just a shame it's too much in some areas and nowhere near enough elsewhere. Take care of yourself with the risk of flooding.

[Lee49]

Australia weather: Rain could put out remaining New South Wales blazes

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51453767

 

[Todd komaniak]

WHAT CAUSED THE WILDFIRES IN AUSTRALIA? AMID WORST BLAZES FOR A DECADE, 24 PEOPLE ARE CHARGED WITH ARSON

By Brendan Cole On 1/07/20 at 8:28 AM EST

WORLD WILDFIRES AUSTRALIA

Police in Australia have arrested and charged two dozen people they say deliberately lit blazes during the wildfire season that has so far killed at least 18 people, destroyed thousands of homes and ravaged over 10 million acres of land.!!!!!!!! So much for climat change Otherwise known as seasons.

[Lee49]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7866783/Kangaroo-Island-bushfire-Australian-soldiers-care-koalas-kangaroos.html

 

Australian soldiers show their softer side by caring for injured koalas and kangaroos after devastating bushfires ripped through their homes

 

 

[Stee]

[Lee49]

A Continent On Fire - Holly Williams reports on the massive, deadly bush fires in Australia and examines their relationship to climate change

Tonight on 60 minutes - 7 pm eastern, 6 central

[Lee49]

Watch the report online - " A Continent On Fire " from 60 minutes - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-fires-climate-change-relationship-60-minutes-2020-02-16/

[AH173]

Viewing the program from 60 minutes, very distressing.😬

[Lee49]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-51654621/tasmania-snow-concludes-australia-s-summer-of-extremes

Tasmania snow concludes Australia's summer of extremes

"Snow has fallen in mountainous parts of Tasmania, rounding out a summer of dramatic weather changes in Australia."

 

[Lee49]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51738113

 "Human-caused climate change contributed to the weather conditions that triggered huge bushfires which blazed for months in Australia, climate scientists have found"

Researchers from the World Weather Attribution group found that human-caused climate change increased the chances of Australia experiencing extreme fire weather by at least 30%..