Bamboo, I hope you are far from the 7,000 wildfires I read about. I hope you receive rain to quench the lands thirst.
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Blessings
Van
Thanks Van for the kind thoughts. For the moment where we are is ok but bone dry as we are in drought. Walk across the grass and it crunches under your feet.
Today is 40C with no rain in sight. The same temps or thereabouts for at least the next week and no rain. We are sub tropical as far as climate is concerned so this is meant to be our rainy season, not this year!
The problem with fires is that most of them are arson so you just never know when the next one will start and when you will be on the line so to speak.
We have had fires burning on and off for the last month or so solid. The last figure I saw which is now well out of date is that over 2 million hectares (5 million acres in your money) have been burnt. I think they have stopped counting.
Just one fire that is burning very close to Sydney in NSW is over 300,000 hectares at the moment and they have lost 680 homes so far.
It is a constant that you live with in this country that and severe storm cells. A couple of weeks back we had a storm go though 1km south of us that threw down hailstones the size of baseballs. The carnage was something else, the local freeway was littered with cars and trucks with no glass left in them and looking like someone had taken to the panels with a sledge hammer.
The irony of this country is that it is so big all sorts of weather can be happening. On Monday there was 30cm of snow at a place called Mt Hotham, a ski resort in Victoria while we are in drought and had 37C...crazy stuff.
Anyway thanks again for your thoughts.
Cheers
Mark