Lisa
Moderator
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
Ugh I feel for you guys. Stay safe. I hope they can get the fires under control soon.
Forum members in Australia
- Thread starter kateincornwall
- Start date
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
My boss got a call halfway through a meeting just before to say her kids were being evacuated from their day care 
People were told to leave work and I'm on the way home. No fires near us thank goodness. But a big southerly change is coming with very strong winds.
The sky is so eerie
The 12 minute uphill walk from the training centre to the train station in 37 degree heat was not pleasant and I really need a shower!
People were told to leave work and I'm on the way home. No fires near us thank goodness. But a big southerly change is coming with very strong winds.
The sky is so eerie
The 12 minute uphill walk from the training centre to the train station in 37 degree heat was not pleasant and I really need a shower!
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
I lived in Sydney for 9 years, from 1998 till 2007. Eastern suburbs. First year in Bellevue Hill in a falling-down unit with various drunken backpackers, who have all gone onto become Australian citizens and normal Sydneysiders with families! Then seven years in Darling Point. And my final year was in Bondi Beach—The Life!!! I swam in the sea twice a day.
I hope you’ll be okay today. It sounds so scary.
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Location
- Canberra, Australia
I’m in Sydney at the moment (northern side). Hot, windy, dry as a bone. Smoke in the air but not near here (good as my parents’ house backs onto bushland). My brother was here but went home a while ago to get out the community firefighting equipment as they’re on the edge of bush too and a fire had started (ie been started by some deadshit) a couple of km away. All seems to be under control there. Got a cousin up on the north coast (of NSW) and the have 900 firefighters battling the blaze in their area.
Meanwhile our politicians continue to deny that we have a problem with climate change and fire risk, even though what normally happened occasionally (and with less intensity) in February (ie at the end of summer) is happening now in Spring.
Meanwhile our politicians continue to deny that we have a problem with climate change and fire risk, even though what normally happened occasionally (and with less intensity) in February (ie at the end of summer) is happening now in Spring.
There’s just been an update on our news. Thinking of you all.
- Location
- Canberra, Australia
Sky from my parents’ verandah. Has been full of smoke all day.
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Thinking of you all up north
Sometimes it's hard to believe we're in the same country when we get these extremes of weather.
Sometimes it's hard to believe we're in the same country when we get these extremes of weather.
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
I know @Emily ! I had to do a double take when I saw the temperature in Melbourne - 17 vs 37 and a one hour plane trip apart. What a crazy place we live in.
@Oberon - how long are you in Sydney? Is Obi with you? Wouldn't it be awesome if the cousins (and us hooman's) could have a meet up? I have to work all week in town unfortunately but what about the weekend? We have a big family do here on Sunday but could squeeze some time in on Saturday (in between doing a visitor clean on this fur encrusted house)
@Oberon - how long are you in Sydney? Is Obi with you? Wouldn't it be awesome if the cousins (and us hooman's) could have a meet up? I have to work all week in town unfortunately but what about the weekend? We have a big family do here on Sunday but could squeeze some time in on Saturday (in between doing a visitor clean on this fur encrusted house)
- Location
- Canberra, Australia
I’ll pm you Lab adore.
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
I have been watching the news and thinking of you all, it's not often I feel like praying but I do now.
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Woah, I don't really watch the news when I'm here, but I just caught up online. One million hectares? Bloody hell.
My thoughts are with everyone who is affected, and who is scared right now. I'm not religious but sometimes only a religious turn of phrase seems to fit, so godspeed to those firefighters who are risking their lives for others.
My thoughts are with everyone who is affected, and who is scared right now. I'm not religious but sometimes only a religious turn of phrase seems to fit, so godspeed to those firefighters who are risking their lives for others.
- Location
- Canberra, Australia
These are screeenshots from the NSW Rural Fire Service ‘Fires Near Me’ app. They show the fires burning at the moment.
Atemas
UK Tour Guide
- Location
- North Cambridgeshire
Despite everything sh*tty going on here with my mum’s health and care, I am thinking off you all - here is my cyber
- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
A bit like the severe flooding in the north of the UK again. Loss of lives, homes, businesses whilst our idiot politicians argue of bloody Brexit. xx
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
This is appalling, am thinking of you all and hoping for the miracle of rain. We are mucking up the planet.
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Well Sydney certainly dodged a bullet yesterday, thank goodness. But up north it is dire. I cried at a report this morning, a reporter was standing talking to a resident and he was saying how he was hopeful his house was spared...they were standing not far from the house and the smoke cleared and there was his house, completely engulfed in flames. The poor bloke had a terrible deformity on his face and was so brave to go on telly. He was trying so hard not to cry, the reporter was crying and it is just so tragic 
. He is a hard-working tradie who put all his money into that house.
. He is a hard-working tradie who put all his money into that house.
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Oh @Lab_adore, that is heartbreaking.