Deadly weather

Like the rest of the world, Adelaide’s weather has gone lethal. Sweden has lost more of its people in the storms which wreaked havoc in Europe, England is currently suffering storms and floods, California is sliding down and the torrents are raging. The devastation, heartache and trauma are obvious. Japan had cyclones and storms, as did Queensland and then we may not forget the pain of the tsunamis. The weather machine has gone mad. California has had more rain than ever and we have had bushfires raging out of control and 9 people are now dead and the damage to homes and livestock is unbelievable. We haven’t had a fire like this in 22 years. The Ash Wednesday one I spoke of earlier. People were killed trying to outrun the fires in their cars but when the conditions are 40 degrees, dry and the North wind is blowing the fires were racing along at 35km an hour and the fire fighters cannot fight those sorts of fires. Didn’t stop them trying and they have exhausted themselves making us safe again. Who turned the fan up on the fire machine? Who took the humidity out of the air? I said in my previous post a bush fire is terrifying. The people on the bottom end of the Eyre Peninsula have lost everything. Like we did in Adelaide on Ash Wednesday. Port Lincoln and Tumby Bay are on the ocean so some people headed for the sea. It’s a beautiful area. We have a tuna fishing industry there but it’s just one of our beautiful areas and the caravan site at Tumby bay has been destroyed. I have seen the other countries on the news and my heart hurts for all these people. Haven’t we had enough? Every day another disaster. Haven’t we reached saturation point by now? I passed the charred fields at Hallett Cove on my way to town today. Black. Acres and acres of black and the burnt smell in my car. The hills fires were deliberately lit. I hope they catch the people because they were started in our national parks. Hallett Cove and Eyre Peninsula, I don’t know. They have bush fires in Victoria as well. Summer brings fires but we can usually contain them. Yesterday the wind fanned the fires. 45 hectares of land has been wiped out on the Eyre Peninsula and the animals with it. To give you an idea, you can fit 2 Germanies into South Australia and 14 and a half Frances into the whole of Australia. As I said, you have to think big here , so when people deliberately light fires on hot , windy days and they kill people, is that murder? I am so fed up with these people who are bringing harm to others with their destructive, anti social behaviour. We do not need it. Nature can be destructive enough when she chooses to be.

Nine dead in SA fires


Nine dead as fire threat spreads