FIRES...the new normal?
Woke up today to grey skies, choking air....the new normal? The day is closing and most of our view is still grey and occluded. Still reeking of fire. And we are at a fair distance from the tragic consequences of the immediate fires. We in rural NSW are learning that the biggest threat from climate change for us is fire. We who live with bush surroundings are scared. Most rural dwellers are surrounded by bush. Where is PM Morrison? What does he have to say about "the new normal"?
We need more planes to drop water. Will our government give us these resources or will our government continue to deny the effects of climate change?
Yes NY19, had that in the property next door to us about 15 years ago when we lived elsewhere. We saw a fire flame that was about 100 metres from our home, that looked like a tornado of about 100 feet high, then there was a break of nothing of perhaps 30 feet and another fire flame above the gap that was about 40 feet. That thing whipped around like one of those side show machines where everyone throws up on. It hit the property it was on and bent over from the tip as if it was hell bent on not missing one single tree or blade of grass.
Luckily the wind was in our favour and we had very few trees and grass was mowed to almost bowling green height. But if ever you wanted to know what hell would be like, that night I am sure I saw it.
Seems Slomo is considering climate change may well be a factor in the fires. Gosh this guy a slower than molasses in winter, its too little and too late. Now he questions the validity of burning off the undergrowth as being a useful item to prevent bushfires as it has burned through some of these areas. Well, if the clearing fires had been done a lot earlier than leaving them for years, and scomo jumped on the bandwagon immediately instead of pissing off to Hawaii, the fires would not have gotten so big, so out of control, that in the end it not only had full control but had a mind of its own as it created its own weather.