God, how traumatic Caleb. I guess it brings back memories for me,
although it's been a long time since I lived in the country. I
remember the Western District fires when I was little, when the fires
came up to our back fences and my father was gone for days fighting
the fires and came back with his face black and his eyes red, or the
fires that burned out Stratham (was it?) in 1979, driving through the
devastated landscape the next day, dotted with all those bloated
cattle corpses, burned black. Nightmare stuff. But this seems worse,
unprecedented.
xA
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I spent two days covering this for the ABC online. It is not really
> something one can ever be properly prepared for.
>
> The media were not allowed into Kinglake. It was too overwhelming.
> There were bodies in the streets, in cars. Families died.
>
> Utterly dreadful.
>
> Caleb.
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The death toll just coming in from the bushfires - 65 dead and
>> counting in Victoria. Absolutely awful.
>>
>> Here in the city we just were hot. And how. Yesterday was awful. It
>> reached 47 degrees, which is the hottest since they've kept records. I
>> have never felt a wind that actually burned your skin before. There
>> are bushes in our backyard with leaves burned black, which I have also
>> never seen before, and everywhere across the city there are trees with
>> withered and burned leaves, like a fake autumn. Not to mention the
>> poor little lizards that turned into dessciated corpses on the
>> concrete. Truly a day from hell.
>>
>> Horrible feeling, which is worse, that this is a taste of things to come.
>>
>> xA
>>
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