I don’t know what I want to say, how I’m feeling, its all just a bit numbing.
Bushfires are a normally just a part of the Australian summer, eucalypts and the bush burn. On this scale though, and with all this warning so many deaths?
ago Melbourne’s weather set a record for three days in a row over 43 °C, then on Saturday another record with the hottest day ever at 46.4 °C — and with howling hot winds, fires broke out all over the state and continued through the night. Sunday in Melbourne was grey and cool and drizzled with rain, but just out of the city to the north the fires raged on and now 108 are confirmed dead.
Places I’m familiar with have been devastated, a map in the paper shows one of our cycling routes; Wittlesea, Humevale, Kinglake and St Andrews, only in this case each town is accompanied by a number, the number of people confirmed dead.
