Regular readers will know that I prefer to keep this place lighthearted but I would really like to make a comment about the bushfires that are currently ravaging the state.
For people who live here, there's not really much to say that you haven't already read or seen. For those who haven't been here for a while or don't live here, the footage pretty much says it all. The really scary ones are of people trying to out-drive the fire and dying in their cars - it moved that fast. There's a strange feeling of shock and sadness around, not helped by the news that a very prominent now-retired newsreader is one of the casualties, and having the jingle his network wrote for him earworming around our collective heads.
The current toll is 130 people, probably more. I'm a gonna donate blood later this week. Who's up for that?
Photos are from www.TheAge.com.au
2 comments:
I'm with you Mallymoodle. When something so devastating happens we are all left saddened and shell shocked. The best thing we can all do is pitch in either by giving money or for those of us who can, donate some life saving blood.
Oh this is so scary. I was wondering how so many people got hurt and killed without getting evacuated, I didn't know it was because the fires just moved that fast. best wishes to oz from over here
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