We’ve also lost over 500 million - that’s half a billion - animals so far. That doesn’t include the hundreds of millions that are injured and displaced. It is absolutely devastating for our country.
Thanks, I'm not thrilled to be an Aussie right now.
I live in New South Wales, a state on the right-hand side of the map, in an area called the Blue Mountains. We haven't seen the sun in weeks (save for patches of blue skies here and there), all you can smell and taste is smoke, and we've managed to find a way to get our valuables somewhere safe if the fire does come. Yesterday, the suburb where my mum works was the hottest place on earth. Not far from where I live a National Park is burning....thousands and thousands of square kilometres of fire.
It's not projected to rain (properly) until the end of next month and until then the fires will keep burning. It's thought that they'll either burn themselves out or the rain might put them out...But that's some rainfall and we're not sure if we'll get that much. Fire fighters are telling people, "you have to leave, we can't save your house." It's a terrifying situation, even if you're not in a fire zone.
Alclis on January 4th, 2020 at 22:27 UTC »
Good lord! It’s like the whole country is on fire!
BananaLana_ on January 5th, 2020 at 00:48 UTC »
We’ve also lost over 500 million - that’s half a billion - animals so far. That doesn’t include the hundreds of millions that are injured and displaced. It is absolutely devastating for our country.
elegant_pun on January 5th, 2020 at 01:04 UTC »
Thanks, I'm not thrilled to be an Aussie right now.
I live in New South Wales, a state on the right-hand side of the map, in an area called the Blue Mountains. We haven't seen the sun in weeks (save for patches of blue skies here and there), all you can smell and taste is smoke, and we've managed to find a way to get our valuables somewhere safe if the fire does come. Yesterday, the suburb where my mum works was the hottest place on earth. Not far from where I live a National Park is burning....thousands and thousands of square kilometres of fire.
It's not projected to rain (properly) until the end of next month and until then the fires will keep burning. It's thought that they'll either burn themselves out or the rain might put them out...But that's some rainfall and we're not sure if we'll get that much. Fire fighters are telling people, "you have to leave, we can't save your house." It's a terrifying situation, even if you're not in a fire zone.
We don't know what to do.