fire, fire, burning bright
NOT something I like to see. I have a healthy respect/fear (combined with fascination) with fire.
Arriving at work and being told it could take you 2-3 hours to drag your sorry ass home that night is not pleasant.
10 bushfires yesterday (and most likely continuing to burn today, hopefully more controlled) in the greater Hobart area.
Seeing the sun like this is just eerie. Haven't heard about any lost houses yet, mostly sheds, fences, and poor wildlife I'm sure.
We cleared 34 degrees yesterday, talk about obscene. Just to make matters even better the air-con at work had a heart attack at the heat and could only cool us down to 30 or so (lovely when you're working in a long sleeve shirt and for about 30 seconds a jacket).
Highways were chaotic/closed. The poor guys who run the airport shuttle service only got people to flights on time (as highway closure was between city and airport) because the flight crew were late as well.Fingers crossed things are a little less nuts today.
It was spooky last night driving home and seeing this on the road, felt like it was within touching distance....
posted by LuSh at 5:13 PM
8 Comments:
Fire is scary and when it's up that close and personal it's fucking bloody scary!
Glad you's ok.
the photo in the merc today shows just how widespread it was, but these make it more personal. hopefully its removed a lot of the threat for the coming summer. some bloody little fire bugs...
Steph - exactly, least it wasn't licking my back fence this time like it did on the Gold Coast.
Foodkitty - been trying to upload that amazing picture all morning. Blogger doesn't like it, me thinks blogger has some serious tissues
Ironic that something so devestating can still look beautiful huh? 34 in Tassie - sheesh this is the time of year I could visit!
Welllllll 34 was days ago... back to the woolies, have lit the fire to stop SexBomb complaining about the shiveriness!
oh and if anyone wants to see the double page piccie out of the merc that shows the extent of the fires.... give me a shout out and I'll send it through!
I hope everything's ok.
All is well, it's back to bloody freezing again!
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