Fires & weather

Hottest day yet. Stepping outside was like stepping into a fan-forced oven. Can't wait for the end of summer.

The fire situation is just awful. We're sort of safe, but the pissy change that came through is now pointing one of the major fires our way. (A few towns and kilometers to get through first though.)

Perhaps this, the 3rd serious fire season in 7 years might finally bully the government into doing something about things. Remember recently the case where a local council said "no you can't build on a block because of sea rises related to global warming"? Well, I reckon the councils should be considering saying "you can't build in the bush because of the risk of global-warming related wildfires."

Its a tragedy that people have lost their lives, that homes have been burnt and livestock and pets killed. But in some cases, they shouldn't have homes in the forest. I don't. Deliberately.

(It also appears some of the fires may be deliberately lit. Its depressing. Flogging is too good for the sort of scum who light a bushfire - especially on a day like today. I am sure they are mentally ill - nobody in their right mind would do it. But they need to be punished as well as stopped from ever doing it again.)