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[annarti]

Sooooo South Australia's on fire again. No comparisons yet to last summer's, probably because the CFS are too busy right now trying to make it not a fire anymore. They can hardly tell us anything about it because it's so big and scary. 41km fire front and 'pretty nasty'. Cos. They're fieries. Properties probably destroyed and people probably dead but they dunno.

Also it's travelled about 50km in 4 hours, so it's travelling at about 13kph, which is faster than I could reliably jog. I've been doing fitness recently, of 30-second sprints, during which I can go about 150m giving me an absolute top speed of 18kph, and that is seriously giving it everything. I'm dead afterwards. And that's in clear air. Which this isn't. The air is black.

Just been upgraded by the CFS chief to 'particularly nasty'. Shit.

(I have the entire city of Adelaide between me and the fires, btw, so I'm safe, as is everyone I know. I do fear for the vineyards, though. Obvious selfish reasons aside, wine is a major industry for my state. Lose too much of that and we're stuffed.)

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[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Its barely spring and your country is on fire? Seriously?


Stay safe all you and yours <3

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Dude it's November, fire danger season started weeks ago. WA was on fire last week, possibly still is idk I haven't heard any updates for a couple of days, so they might be okay now. But yeah. This is also an El Niño summer, which means super dry and super hot, so this is just the start of it.

FIRE. (https://ewen.cartodb.com/viz/935b7106-9356-11e5-a412-0e5db1731f59/embed_map) Damn. They weren't kidding when they said it could get as far east as Nuriootpa. The Krondorf/Angaston/Keyneton area is where my two favourite wineries are (Henschke and Rockford), and they haven't mentioned anything about vineyards YET, but geeze it's scary.