Re: OT Very Off-Topic - SE- Australian Bushfires

Posted by CATS on December 18, 2006, 2:32 am

The fires have now burned out over 750,000hectares.

That's 1,853,200acres or 2,895sq miles

They are still burning.

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: In this year of severe weather Australia is again facing
: extreme fire danger. There have already been a number of
: large fires in NSW, and a massive blaze (actually a
cluster
: of fires) in eastern Victoria is currently threatening an
: area of approx 1,500sq miles (600,000 hectares or
1,500,000
: acres). That's an area about the size of Mississippi
state,
: or not much smaller than the Netherlands. This weekend we
: anticipate temperatures over 100F and the worst fire
: conditions since 1939 - a horror year in Victoria. The
: link-up of many small fires has produced a "mega-fire"
that
: is throwing fireballs forward many kilometres to start new
: fires.
:
: The speed and extent of the fire(s) is alarming. Even
: having experienced the fires of 83 (Adelaide), 92-93 (Blue
: Mtns) and 05-06 (Western Victoria) I am awed by the size
and
: ferocity of this fire threat.
:
: Many of the volunteer firefighters who are battling these
: fires are exhausted already. It is forcast that the fires
: will burn all through summer as they are so extensive, and
: in such rough country, they simply do not have any way to
: combat them. Teams of fire fighters will have to fall
back
: to each township and wait for the fire to come to them,
and
: then fight to protect homes and townships.
:
: Volunteer teams have arrived from New Zealand and
interstate
: to help this weekend, and others from our local brigades
in
: the west of the state are heading east to help for as long
: as they can even though the danger here is also extreme.
:
: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD329948.htm
: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1807627.htm
:
: My heart breaks for the devastation these fires cause and
: for all the animals that have no hope of escaping them.
:
: I am not a traditionally religious person, but I do ask
for
: your prayers to protect the men and women who will
continue
: to fight these fires for many weeks to come as we all wait
: for a change in the weather.
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Posted by Patti on December 18, 2006, 3:17 am

Oh Cheryl, that's truly awful.
I'm so sorry. It's unimaginable - but I do the sums and relate it to
the area between places I know here. Saying it's a million times the
size of our garden doesn't really help except to make the enormity sink
in.
.
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