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How frightening.
I’d feel way too guilty whinging about living without a kitchen and blogging about the reno when so many people have lost their lives, homes and livelihood in the disastrous fires so I’m going to give it a miss today. On Friday afternoon there was a fire somewhere in our area – it would have been miles away, but the smoke and smell was quite intense and I found it hard to breathe at times. I thought to myself “here we go…” and sent out a silent sympathetic thought to the firies who we’re in for a big weekend and made bets with my husband how long it’d be before the freeway was closed and the trains stopped running. Pretty much every year the central coast gets blocked off for a while due to fires. This is an incredible pain in the rear for anyone who needs to travel to Sydney or is stuck in Sydney trying to get home. It can be hours – at times days – before you’re given the all clear. After this horiffic weekend in Victoria, we of course, have no right to complain. In fact, I’m sure every one of us up here would have happily been inconvenienced for a while if it meant Victoria had no fires, no deaths, no devastating tragedy. I cannot imagine the emotions being felt down there…
My husband suggested if the latest federal Stimulus Package is passed, they should immediately halve the amounts they’d planned to hand out and give the other half to the fire victims and to rebuilding the demolished communities. He also said part of it should go to upgrading our firefighting equipment, procedures and training. Because as temperatures rise year to year, our country is only going to burn faster, further and with more fury.
And for those insert-angry-adjective-here animals lighting these fires, I only hope they’re found and punished accordingly. I might not be the world’s biggest advocate of capital punishment, but in this case, I think being burnt at the stake highly appropriate…