This has been the worst year for bush fires on record in Australia- north of Melbourne, entire towns have been wiped out. I work with a fellow from Melbourne here at Auski; his family rang today to tell him that his house was safe but the shed he built 4 months ago had burned up. Definitely lucky. Then in a complete opposite scenario, in far north Queensland (the pointy bit of Australia on the map) they have been getting successive tropical cyclones and half a dozen towns are completely flooded. People cleaned up from the first flood only to be inundated again when the next cyclone came through. Along with the recession coverage, watching the news makes you think that Australia is on the brink of armageddon. At least I have a car if I end up having to flee- if I gun the engine, maybe I can make it to New Zealand before I flood the exhaust.
-A.
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