Bushfires!

My flood thread went down well so I thought I'd post about some more recent excitement in our area today. Bushfires came really close to pretty much everyone I know in the local area and some people had to evacuate. The RFS were good and managed to contain it. Some of the bigger fires are still burning now, and the smoke covered most of the Sydney metropolitan area from around 12pm. I just got power back so I'll be uploading stuff momentarily.



The view from a friend's backyard.



I took this while trying to find a way home past all of the cops who had 90% of roads blocked.



Map so you know roughly what I'm talking about. The red is obviously where the fires are/were, A is where I live (don't stalk me). There were more fires that are outside of the area I screenshotted, but I didn't want to zoom out too far.

Crappy videos I took today:

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A link to the fires still burning:

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-nsw-bushfires?hl=en-GB&llbox=-31.548%2C-35.717%2C154.607%2C147.064&t=ROADMAP&layers=layer0%2C9%2C13%2C5%2C6%2C7%2Clayer1%2C2%2C24

Type in londonderry, sydney or something like that to see my local area.



Image taken from a news helicopter.

Do you have bushfires every year?

Stop living in a country which spontaneously erupts into fire. Australia was a prison for a reason!

In all seriousness, hope you're ok.

Do you have bushfires every year?

Yes, although it's unusually early to get bad ones in September.

Scary! Our fire season in in the spring, but it's usually not terrible. They do control burns throughout the winter, which sometimes get out of control, but they do work in keeping the wildfires down.

i believe there is an ointment that can be used for bush fires.
look up hoppy, he has what you need.

Don't live in a desert.  That is your problem. 

Don't live in a desert.  That is your problem.

Most Australians live on the coast, you silly old man.

I thought the official FE doctrine was that Australia does not exist?
If it does, maybe we could call it the sand wall? or rock wall?