Australian heat waves & bushfires

[weltweit]

The news is saying that outskirts of Melbourne are now threatened.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[Part-timah]

RAMMB/CIRA SLIDER: Satellite Loop Interactive Data Explorer in Real-time with GOES-16 and Himawari-8 Satellite Imagery

 

[ice-is-forming]

8am Tuesday at Mallacoota Victoria, the southern tip.
On the signal siren from the firies, the 4000 on the beach, have been told to put their head under water.
The siren has just gone off.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jesus, hope they get through it OK. Has an awful echo of the deaths by the coast in Greece last year.

 

[weltweit]

Yes ice-is-forming they just mentioned this on the BBC R4 midnight news. Must be terrifying.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

This is terrifying

 

[ice-is-forming]

Victorian fire authorities will not be sending fire crews into isolated communities to protect people who refused to leave.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Victorian fire authorities will not be sending fire crews into isolated communities to protect people who refused to leave.

I find it strange that some people refuse to leave in these circumstances. I'd be out of there like a shot.

 

[albionism]

Truly apocalyptic scenes in Mallacoota, where about 4000 people are sheltering near water.
ScoMo no doubt sees it all as a sign of the coming of the Rapture.

 

[albionism]

Satellite image of the smoke pouring from south eastern Australia..And there are people fucking whinging because the NYE fireworks have been cancelled tonight..

 

[shakespearegirl]

It’s absolutely terrifying, friends sent me this pic from the edge of their property last night.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Jeez!

Australia fires live: two dead in Cobargo as NSW and Victoria face bushfires threat – latest updates

 

[belboid]

Travelling around NZ and occasionally listening to their talk radio. I know their TR is probably as bad as ours (‘call in with your view, no matter how vile’ as one presenter put it), but, ffs, the level of denial is unbelievable.

“I’ll believe in climate change once there’s 100% proof” as more than one person put it.

you’ll be long dead by then, you buffoon(s)

 

[cupid_stunt]

Shocking news this morning that the fires are burning & moving faster than any of the modelling & predictions suggested they would.

That picture above of people crowded on the beach and the state of the sky sent a shiver down my spine, it must be fucking terrifying. Apparently there are plans to evacuate them by sea.

Watching ABC News, available on youtube, there was a lot of scary personal stories, like the guy explaining how they were cut-off & only saved due to a sudden change in wind direction when the fire was just 50m from their house. A women explaining there were 55 staying in a lodge, again cut-off, with the fire getting closer, luckily they are a matter of feet from the beach & a fairly large & long concrete pier, which will save their lives.

ABC was also reporting that the military has [finally] been asked for help, why on earth were they not called on earlier?

They expect a number of communities to be cut-off for days, and as electric & phone lines are down, and some mobile phone towers too, communication is becoming a problem, again it must be fucking terrifying.

Sad to hear of the latest deaths, lets all hope there're no more.

 

[ice-is-forming]

 

[Miss-Shelf]

 

[ice-is-forming]

Where I live has had some solid rain today, which has dampened things down a bit. Qld, is always at risk but at the moment it's South Australia that's copping it.

Its been my experience that people don't evacuate when they're directed to for all sorts of different reasons, which are all perfectly valid

You don't trust the authorities
Mixed messaging
You're not legal
You have an illegal business on the go
You want to stay and try to save your property.
You're in the ' won't happen to me' state of mind
You think you know better ( and it happens a lot because these fires are so unpredictable- that this reasoning is validated)
You're in shock and not hearing
It's an Aussie culture thing.

People will listen to locals though. The old timers who say when it's time to leave. They listen to local experience.

 

[2hats]

 

[ice-is-forming]

Wow 2hats !

 

[ice-is-forming]

Sorry cupid_stunt :/

 

[Sprocket.]

Horrific scenes from Australia on the same day Delhi has its coldest day for over a century.

 

[Sprocket.]

I have cousins who live near the Blue Mountains in NSW. We haven’t been able to contact them since the start of the fires.

 

[DownwardDog]

You don't trust the authorities

This happens a great deal as the authorities are so risk averse and incompetent. When we lived in the country we used to get SES volunteers manning roadblocks telling us we couldn't drive down the road to our house whenever there was a fire within 10km. I used to tell them to fuck off and drive around them. A fire got within 800m in January 2014 but me and my neighbour were in a battle of nerves to see who would crack first and pull the pin so neither of us left.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I’m following #AustraliaFires on twitter, it’s fucking hard to comprehend the scale of the destruction that’s happening right now. Got friends south of Brisbane who have been fire free up til now, hoping it stays that way!

 

[ice-is-forming]

This happens a great deal as the authorities are so risk averse and incompetent. When we lived in the country we used to get SES volunteers manning roadblocks telling us we couldn't drive down the road to our house whenever there was a fire within 10km. I used to tell them to fuck off and drive around them. A fire got within 800m in January 2014 but me and my neighbour were in a battle of nerves to see who would crack first and pull the pin so neither of us left.

It's one of the reasons I get deployed. I go as a neutral party, with the first responders. Red cross etc...

It doesn't always work, and with the direction of the fires changing so swiftly.. sometimes you only have moments to gain someones trust :/

 

[weltweit]

There was a sensible woman leaving her house and escaping fires on the news a few days ago. Her statement was, at least I can replace my house.

 

[planetgeli]

Liked but only in a jesusfuckingchrist way.

There's a Guardian interactive map that shows land lost in comparison to places you know. Basically NSW has lost the equivalent of land from the Sussex coast up to about Peterborough . Madness.

 

[ice-is-forming]

Liked but only in a jesusfuckingchrist way.

There's a Guardian interactive map that shows land lost in comparison to places you know. Basically NSW has lost the equivalent of land from the Sussex coast up to about Peterborough . Madness.

It's crazy yes. But you gotta be careful what you wish for here..... It'll be flooding next.

 

[albionism]

An estimated 500 million animals have perished.