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With Australia being devastated by brushfires, does anyone know if Hedley went home during the break? Just curious if he's back and was his family impacted.
 
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Yep it’s pretty gruelling down here. You can’t meet anyone who hasn’t been affected throughout the entire country. Never seen anything like it and it’s set to get worse over the weekend.
Melbourne is ok at the moment, so don’t know if the big fella has come home.
Wish us luck
 
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Southern Oz said:
Yep it’s pretty gruelling down here. You can’t meet anyone who hasn’t been affected throughout the entire country. Never seen anything like it and it’s set to get worse over the weekend.
Melbourne is ok at the moment, so don’t know if the big fella has come home.
Wish us luck
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Our prayers are with all of you. From the news up here it looks terrible. May the Lord protect all of you and His little animals.
 
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My heart goes out to everyone in that blazing region.
The Australian fires should concern everyone as a harbinger of the future. The devastating fires in California, too.
 
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These kinds of stories always bore me. Kind of like when California burns every summer like clockwork. Wildfires are just part of nature.

It's like all these stories about some new calamity in Puerto Rico each month knocking out the power grid again and again. People choose to live in places with natural disasters, and then they complain when mother nature inevitably does what she always does.

If you don't want your house to burn down, don't live in a tinderbox. If you don't want it to flood, don't live in a flood zone. Pretty simple. If you choose to live there anyway, that's fine.... but then whatever happens is your responsibility alone.
 
Dejan Vasiljevic was raising money for this the other day. The geographical scope of these fires is only less insane and sad than the zoological effect.
 
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RightSaidFred said:
These kinds of stories always bore me. Kind of like when California burns every summer like clockwork. Wildfires are just part of nature.

It's like all these stories about some new calamity in Puerto Rico each month knocking out the power grid again and again. People choose to live in places with natural disasters, and then they complain when mother nature inevitably does what she always does.

If you don't want your house to burn down, don't live in a tinderbox. If you don't want it to flood, don't live in a flood zone. Pretty simple. If you choose to live there anyway, that's fine.... but then whatever happens is your responsibility alone.
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As long as you keep this standard when an event hits Texas or the Florida Panhandle or any Bumblefuk flood prone area in Alabamy.

I'm not necessarily saying you're doing it but the sentiment you expressed (especially about Puerto Rico) is one used by people that base their reactions to these things along political and red state/blue state lines.
 
AmherstCane said:
Perhaps you don’t understand that the scope and scale of the fire is caused by climate factors.

Forest fires are as old as the earth (and typically occur during dry periods)... an entire continent burning to the ground is something different.
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So the 183 people starting the fires aren't responsible?
 
JD08 said:
So the 183 people starting the fires aren't responsible?
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Arsonist should suffer severe consequences.
But you also need to read more.

“Police in the state have also taken legal action against a further 159 people. Among them are 53 people who allegedly failed to comply with a total fire ban and 47 people who allegedly discarded a lit cigarette or match on land.”
www.google.com

Amid Worst Australia Wildfires for a Decade, 24 People Charged with Arson

New South Wales police say a total of 183 people, including 40 juveniles, face criminal charges linked to the wildfires.
www.google.com www.google.com

And

www.theguardian.com

Bots and trolls spread false arson claims in Australian fires ‘disinformation campaign’

Online posts exaggerating the role of arson are being used to undermine the link between bushfires and climate change
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Southern Oz said:
Yep it’s pretty gruelling down here. You can’t meet anyone who hasn’t been affected throughout the entire country. Never seen anything like it and it’s set to get worse over the weekend.
Melbourne is ok at the moment, so don’t know if the big fella has come home.
Wish us luck
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🙏
 
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