BURNING AUSTRALIA! UPDATE Pg 46: 'Liquid gold' and 'a sight for sore eyes' are some of the ways people are describing the rainfall

They're sending more Canadian Fire fighters to help.

Auzzis don't have much to celebrate this year. Maybe fireworks might help bring a little cheer to a few people and help dispelled all the doom and gloom.

"lightning strikes" = Arsonists.

Feral cats are horrible. I've had all sorts of predators stalking my chickens and animals but the worst was when I had a feral cat coming to the property. The fucker was smart. Took months and a neighborhood watch to finally take him out. He not only killed chickens, but two of my neighbour's cats, not just dead but disemboweled inside the house at night when everyone was sleeping. Nobody knows how he got inside. They have no fear. And that was just one cat that managed to wreak havoc in the neighbourhood. I shudder to think what a band of ferals could destroy. These aren't sweet cuddly kitties.

grand solar minumum.. heat waves/wildfires Australia, weather wackiness, solar cycles. Wild blizzards now commonplace across northern US plains.

Yeah, it’s Trump’s fault.

:arrow:

The $ that went up in smoke could have been better spent on firefighting equipment.

I see it as an absolute insult to anyone that has lost their home, pets, business or loved ones.

Prayers for all affected.

Prayers sent.

Nuthin can be an aussie in his own backyahd.

Some of those scenes look like they come straight from hell. Makes me feel a bit guilty here in Vancouver where we are having a very normal winter, rainy and mild, people whining about a "rainfall warning" that will dampen their New Years Eve plans and how disappointed they are that there isn't enough snow to go skiing. I feel for the people sitting on the beach surrounded by flames, but I guess they are luckier than the ones that couldn't even get to the beach. All I have is words of support for Australia, which isn't going to help, but it's all I've got.

Only you can know where you live. But think of the Scotland lion, only 300 at most left. ;)

"Aye and a horses' arse we can do about it here mate."

Get some US Coast Guard ships out there, doesn't the CG now have Ohio subs? Convert those to brown water firefighting ships.

we just had new years....

we had fireworks because they were all on the swan river....


what a hollow empty feeling, i hope you all have a good one...

OT:

Meanwhile, UK just announced that its December temperature record has been broken.

Thread: Global Warming Watch: UK breaks December temperature record

This follows July, earlier this year. when the all time UK temperature record was broken (38.7 c)

And February when the monthly record was smashed there too. (21.2 c)

Records go back 400 years.

Man missing, multiple homes lost in NSW
By AAP17:15
Several bushfire-ravaged communities in NSW have greeted the new year under immediate threat, amid growing fears for a missing 72-year-old and property losses.

Fretting families and tireless firefighters have rung in the new year watching a cool change wreak further havoc across NSW's fatal fire grounds.

As fire authorities predicted the loss of multiple homes, a telecommunications outage left families on New Year's Eve unable to contact loved ones on the fire-ravaged south coast.


"No communication is a rarity in today's world so it's an uncomfortable feeling," Melbourne man Nic Baxter told AAP last night, as he waited to hear from his father in Batemans Bay.

"Fortunately, he is located in an area where I'm sure he is OK, but still very uncomfortable.

"I don't think I can celebrate NYE to be honest, too much on my mind thinking about the fires and family."

NSW Police earlier confirmed all power had been lost from South Nowra to Moruya and "potentially beyond", affecting at least 46,000 people and the supported telecoms network.

Fire conditions are expected to ease today after a cool change, bringing gusts of up to 80km/h and dry lightning strikes, crossed the state.

Five bushfires, including the 230,000-hectare Currowan blaze on the south coast and the 31,000ha Clyde Mountain fire ringing Batemans Bay, were at emergency warning level as the clock struck midnight.

Waterbombing aircraft helped efforts to stop a 250ha blaze reaching residential homes at Blue Haven on the Central Coast.

A good interview (12:51):
'Scientist David Packham on what's really causing the bushfires'

[link to omny.fm (secure)]

Good riddance to the vermin part. Australia is supposed to be about the same size as the US but, only 25 million or so live there. That is like one US State. Maybe if they cleaned the place up and kicked the royals out they could become a free land of prosperity.

"The hordes in Mallacoota..."

Is the term 'hordes' a colloquialism, or a term misused here.

The hordes in Mallacoota included many that had escaped other parts

of the region in Victoria state known as East Gippsland. On Sunday,

officials had given a stark warning

for everyone in a large swath of East Gippsland west of Mallacoota to

leave the area ahead of the anticipated extreme fire threat on Monday

and Tuesday. Well to the north, at least two people were killed in the

New South Wales town of Cobargo, which suffered extensive damage, according to Australia’s ABC News. Several others are still missing across southeast Australia...."

Five missing, two dead as nation burns
By AAP17:55
Fire crews battling hundreds of blazes are facing another tough day across Australia as burnt out communities begin counting their losses.

Five people are missing, two more are dead and thousands are cut off in remote communities as out-of-control bushfires savage NSW and Victoria.

NSW Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says it's "one of the worst, if not the worst fire seasons" his state has faced.

"We are absolutely stretched ... we have fires burning from the Queensland border all the way down to the Victorian border across the Great Dividing Range," he said.

His dire warning comes as an overnight southerly wind change brings "tricky" conditions to the north of the state today.

"It will be cooler but they're strong and gusty south to southwesterly winds that will lead to a change in the direction the fires are moving," meteorologist Dean Narramore told AAP.

"It'll expand the fire area, so you're going to have new challenges, new problems and new areas impacted.

"They're going to cause tricky fire conditions, particularly for those really large fires around Sydney."

Mr Narramore said some blazes are so large, firefighters are likely to be battling different weather conditions in the eastern and western perimeters of the fires.

"It's just unbelievable," he said.

looks like a nuke went off

My God, it's beyond understanding!

25 pages of DOOM on the wall
25 pages of DOOM.
Waiting for another fire to fall
25 pages of DOOM on the wall...