Australia is Burning

[Bjornebye]

Worthy of its own thread now. 

 

It is beyond control. 7 day state of emergency declared in NSW. They reckon it is going to hit 115 degrees.... Thats all they need right now. Two of my best mates live out there. One in Sydney and one in Melbourne. I know we have a good few off here living out there as well. Hope to god none of you get badly affecting by it. 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/02/australia/australia-fire-evacuation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

 

 

 

 

[Brownie]

6/10.

 

Preferred London's Burning tbh.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Have quite a few relations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. They say the PM/Gov't are getting a lot of hate atm. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

It looks scary as fuck, my crew are in Sydney. Hope all stay safe.

[ZonkoVille77]

Hopefully people can manage to stay safe and ride out the storm. Looks horrific. 

 

But the evidence is right before our eyes. The planet is fucked. With so many "Conservative" and "Liberal" governments in power around the world, it's not going to improve either. All civilizations eventually come crashing down, start of ours dying off? Bring it on. Let me see us collect 19 first though. 

[Bjornebye]

14 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Have quite a few relations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. They say the PM/Gov't are getting a lot of hate atm. 

 

 

Have to admit when the lady with the dog started shouting I was just waiting for her to shout "A dingo stole my baby"

 

But fuck me its horrific 

 

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

It looks scary as fuck, my crew are in Sydney. Hope all stay safe.

Don't worry about them mate. They're so solid. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Don't worry about them mate. They're so solid. 

Thanks bruv.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

10 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Thanks bruv.

 

I got the obligatory invites to visit them this year, I don't think so. Reckon the heat would do for me. 

[Bjornebye]

This is what God does to you when you let aRdja move in. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

This is what God does to you when you let aRdja move in. 

 

He'll rock up with his rainbow Trabs and all will be right with Australia. 

[Pidge]

Estimated 480 million animals dead.  Species likely to be extinct or critically threatened by this single event.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

1 minute ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

He'll rock up with his rainbow Trabs and all will be right with Australia. 

Keep him off the Barbie and all will be well.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

Estimated 480 million animals dead.  Species likely to be extinct or critically threatened by this single event.

 

Devastating and real sad mate. 

[Bjornebye]

 

Striking picture. 

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Kudos to all the emergency services and volunteers working all ours to help others. 

[Trumo]

49 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Estimated 480 million animals dead.  Species likely to be extinct or critically threatened by this single event.

 

But not the venomous snakes and spiders I'd imagine.

 

In all seriousness though, for all the complaints to the authorities and the government so on, how exactly do you deal with an environmental and ecological disaster on this scale? Sure there's a case for prevention and investment in that prevention but you can't really plan for and invest significant sums in tackling something that has so many contributing factors that have all aligned at exactly the same time. Right now, what's important is that the fires can be tackled as best as possible with as little loss of life as possible, while trying to keep people informed as much as possible. The learning process that follows on from that will be key in helping to minimise the destruction as much as possible in future events.

 

Those in the emergency services and the volunteer forces are doing an amazing job under the circumstances.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

8 minutes ago, Trumo said:

 

But not the venomous snakes and spiders I'd imagine.

 

In all seriousness though, for all the complaints to the authorities and the government so on, how exactly do you deal with an environmental and ecological disaster on this scale? Sure there's a case for prevention and investment in that prevention but you can't really plan for and invest significant sums in tackling something that has so many contributing factors that have all aligned at exactly the same time. Right now, what's important is that the fires can be tackled as best as possible with as little loss of life as possible, while trying to keep people informed as much as possible. The learning process that follows on from that will be key in helping to minimise the destruction as much as possible in future events.

 

Those in the emergency services and the volunteer forces are doing an amazing job under the circumstances.

 

The fume from residents is due to the current Gov't stance on climate change and the fact the PM fucked off on holiday, which he had to cut short due to the growing complaints. Also at the lack of action in some of the more remote/small towns hit by the disaster. 

[TheHowieLama]

Too early for the Midnight Oil reference?

[Creator Supreme]

Don't worry folks, climate change is a load of bollocks, Meat Loaf said so!

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Don't worry folks, climate change is a load of bollocks, Meat Loaf said so!

And the right wing think Greta Thunberg should be in school and not trying to save the planet. 

[Creator Supreme]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

And the right wing think Greta Thunberg should be in school and not trying to save the planet. 

Mr Loaf is of the opinion that Greta has been brainwashed! Donald Trump likes this!

[Dougie Do'ins]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Striking picture. 

 

 

'What's that Skip ? There's a fire raging in the Bush? '

[Mudface]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Striking picture. 

 

 

They snipped out the petrol can in Skippy's front paws there.

[General Dryness]

It's so bad we're getting the smoke drifting over the ditch to us. Lots of hazy red sunsets here recently, apparently down to air pollution from the fires.

 

Grim times.