Hell of a day...
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- fiver0
damn, the shit is scary... but shouldn't they just evacuate all over now? do people really believe turning on your garden hose is going to stop a wall of flames? thanks for the link autoflavour
- autoflavour0
its hard to say.. in some cases its just the embers which cause the fires.. and you can fight embers with garden hoses..
but in this instance a ember storm.. well.. i dont think you have a chance
- sikma0
sometimes there's nowhere to evacuate too. you can drive as fast as like in any direction only to run into another wall of flames.
- autoflavour0
only advice, have a fire boxes for your photos etc.. and try not to buy houses next to the bush. sure its nice when its not on fire, but when it is.. well.. it is fucked
- BusterBoy0
Speaking to my brother in law yesterday who lives in Kinglake...they literally had zero warning. It's hard to comprehend. It's not like fires that people are used to...things 'catching fire' and spreading. It is literally a fire storm...huge balls of flames fanned by the strong winds. These storms travel so fast, unless you have a bit of warning, there's no hope. They roll over the top of the ground incinerating everything in their path.
- thumb_screws0
Some places where you can help out.
http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/s…
- _me_0
aww man - what a mess - every hour of passing news on this just gets worse... found out today a client of ours passed away while visiting the area at the weekend...
with regards to the ferocity of these fires, at its height a 20m high wall of fire can travel at 2m per second spreading its embers even further. but then any wind change - and fires such as this cause their own wind - it can change direction in a heartbeat. you literally have nowhere to run - just pure luck to get out of it...
hell on earth.
- BannedKappa0
- F**K!
The poor people didn't stand a chance. Just a massive wall of fire!RoyBoyII
- F**K!
- MrOneHundred0
I really hope I don’t offend anyone with this not-totally-university-degree-re... opinion, but they National Parks have to be allowed to do back-burning and clearance burning during winter. IMHO, this type of fire would never happen. Ever.
- *not totally university degree researched opinionMrOneHundred
- uh they do back burning all the time, do you even live in Australia?autoflavour
- Not in National parks or State Forests. I live in Australia.MrOneHundred
- itsmitch0
fuck the asshole that started these. bring back public hangings!
- V Ah, I am talking about back-burning (below), not hanging. I’m with you on that, somewhat.MrOneHundred
- MrOneHundred0
I believe they are currently not able to do so due to Conservation and Environmental Management policies. This, to me is ludicrous. The indigenous population had been setting fire to bushlands during winter and wet seasons for tens of thousands of years in order to regenerate the forests and cull animal populations which were over-breeding. The Australian bushland has, over that time, adapted to this method and it is only since these policies or “laws” came in that we have seen these types of bushfires. There are vast areas of land which have had 30 years build-up of undergrowth and leaf-litter, fallen trees, and general over-growing. I firmly believe these factors are the reasons, coupled with hot windy weather conditions, why these fires are so big and spread so quickly.
But I don’t have any fancy degrees or anything, so what the fuck would I know.
- toe_knee0
so sad. we only found out about this on the way back from a 3 day festival. turned on the radio in the car and heard it was 150 ppl dead. we were all a bit tender and got a bit emotional. Poor poor people caught up in that.
- BusterBoy0
- amazingtoe_knee
- A milestone inhuman-koala relationsTheBIueOne
- bad ass bearsBattleAxe
- its pretty amazing.akrokdesign
- I love stuff like this. Awesome.BuddhaHat
- vanilla_cam0
are koala bears that tame? or did he just need a drink that bad he didn't give a shit?
- i think its cause he/she was real tiered and thirsty.akrokdesign
- Desperate for water. They're not normally quite that friendly.BuddhaHat
- normally they'll either run away or scratch the bejeezuz outta you. This poor lil guy was super desperate!!thelukeandrews