Bloody hell.
Jan. 19th, 2003 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/19/1042911262050.html
388 homes confirmed destroyed. Two people dead, several volunteer fire crews missing - trucks found burnt out. My parents no longer live in Canberra, but they still own the family house in which my brother and I grew up; our neighbour has been hosing down the roof, and has been warned to prepare for evacuation.
If you want irony:
"Capitals vs Fire in doubt due to bushfires."
Canberra hasn't lost a home to bushfires in fifty years. Four hundred houses, in a town with a population around 300 000, is amazing. While the weather's been erratic where I live, through most of Australia it's been one of the hottest and dryest summers in decades.
And every time you see somebody driving a big shiny SUV that hasn't been out of the city in months, you're looking at one of the arseholes who helped make this all possible.
388 homes confirmed destroyed. Two people dead, several volunteer fire crews missing - trucks found burnt out. My parents no longer live in Canberra, but they still own the family house in which my brother and I grew up; our neighbour has been hosing down the roof, and has been warned to prepare for evacuation.
If you want irony:
"Capitals vs Fire in doubt due to bushfires."
Canberra hasn't lost a home to bushfires in fifty years. Four hundred houses, in a town with a population around 300 000, is amazing. While the weather's been erratic where I live, through most of Australia it's been one of the hottest and dryest summers in decades.
And every time you see somebody driving a big shiny SUV that hasn't been out of the city in months, you're looking at one of the arseholes who helped make this all possible.
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Date: 2003-01-18 08:01 pm (UTC)Um.
Date: 2003-01-20 10:21 pm (UTC)How do SUVs contribute to the danger?
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Re: Um.
Date: 2003-01-22 05:09 pm (UTC)(While it's hard to unequivocally blame any one event on global warming, summer maxima do seem to be on the increase; I feel fairly comfortable in saying that globabl warming is at least partly to blame for such things. And SUVs make a handy example of the gas-guzzling mentality that helped get us to this point.)