[SEL] fires today

[Peter Lowe]

Well Paul, we just refer back to Dorothea Mackellar's poem: "My Country"

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
etc

I would not trade it for anything.!
Peter, Oz





> It was over 40 (116F) here again today and once again we are terrorised by
> fire here in my state of Victoria. Approximately 30% of our state is
> either burning or burnt today. Hundreds of homes have been lost and so far
> fourteen people have been killed. Entire towns are gone. Some fire fronts
> have reached the Northern suburbs of our capital Melbourne.
>
> Many of the fires are arson. Some are from lightning.
>
> Several of the biggest ten have moved hundreds of km defying the efforts
> of fire fighters.
>
> We've been very lucky today. There have been several large fires in and
> around our town. A sleepless night coming up now that the wind has become
> gusty.
>
> Tomorrow a cooler day but gale force winds. Our northern neighbours in New
> South Wales are in for it tomorrow. Very ironic given the northern most
> state Queensland has huge areas of flooding.
>
> Regards Paul