New South Wales Bushfires
It is Spring time in Australia, which has lately meant bushfires. The ABC reports on the latest on the East Coast south of Brisbane: Bushfires spread: Fight to protect NSW village
Firefighters are now battling bushfires on three fronts in northern New South Wales, after residents rallied together to protect homes overnight.
Locals who decided to stay in the village of Brooms Head, east of Grafton, last night hosed down homes under direct threat from flames on the town’s western side.
Residents were also put on alert further west in the Gurranang area, before conditions there eased overnight.
A third fire is now burning out of control further south in bush 10 kilometres west of Minnie Water.
High temperatures, low humidity, and gusty winds, everything necessary for a nasty wildfire. They are hoping for a wind shift to on shore flow, but that will change the direction the fire is traveling, and endangers the firefighters working close to the flames when the shift occurs.
This is just the start of the bushfire season.
Here’s the location of Brooms Head on Google Maps.
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Yeah… It’s expected to be bad over the coming Months. The Fed & State Governments have overhauled the warning system and emergency services after the preliminary report of the Royal Commission on the Feb disaster. The ABC has finally been given enough funding to setup a National warning radio network (I mean, they are the ONLY radio broadcaster we have that pretty much covers all of Aus! But of course, since they are non-commercial, and the commercial networks couldn’t compete with them, little Johnny Howard, the bastard, tried to have the ABC terminated and had their funding cut to the bone. So, in some way, Howard can be blamed for the fact that so many were killed and injured early this year because the warning system was a joke and completely failed.)
There are fires spreading pretty much all over Qld, and around NSW.
2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission – Interim Report
ABC Science Special – Bushfire Recovery and News
Marysville is still suffering and it’s personally sad for me to see one of my favorite places in the World destroyed, but even worse too see that little has been done to rebuild and help those who suffered. Petty politics once again rears it’s ugly heads.
Marysville residents slam council over rebuild
Same old, same old… and so it goes.
It’s going to get worse.
Your spam thingy is annoying. And how come it let’s me preview fine, then whines when I actually post? Inconsistent! 😛 😉
ABC Local Radio – your emergency broadcaster
We still haven’t finished dealing with hurricane Ivan from 2004. Inertia is the one thing that is consistent in all governments worldwide.
One of the more annoying things that democracies do after a disaster is to start suspecting victims of freeloading. The representatives of areas that were not affected wait a bit and then start questioning how much aid should be given, and to whom. It doesn’t occur to them that their area might need help from other people one day, and what goes around, comes around.
The truly annoying part is that, given the state of everyone’s economy, now would be a great time to do the rebuilding to generate jobs and move some product. This is the sort of feel-good stimulus that should be a natural, but no one gets it, in Australia, or the US.
We have lost tens of thousands of jobs in the construction industry, but no one is trying to push the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast. The longer it has been, the worst the maze to get money to people, and the maze is eating up the cash.
The preview is a separate chunk of code that works withing the current page and does access the database. The spam plug-in doesn’t do anything until the database is accessed. I wonder if the proxy is what gives things fits, because both the old and new system seem to pick on you, and you alone.
both the old and new system seem to pick on you, and you alone.
both of them have picked on me in the past. i just haven’t mentioned it other than a couple of times when i was truly motivated.
.-= last blog ..Once more unto the breach, single payer advocates, once more =-.
LOL I know Bryan (RE: preview vs post). I just felt like a little venting. (What started as a minor stupid annoyance on the test03 site is becoming a major PITA to fix! You know… ‘To fix it, I have to change another mod, which breaks something else, to fix which breaks another, to fix which breaks the whole site!” kinda PITA.) 😉 PS, for the record… I really do not like Joomla, and while I’m on that, It’s *NOT* a damned CMS (Content Management System), or at best, a very basic CMS! It’s a *framework*! And one with some majorly STUPID bugs that should have been repaired LONG ago when it was branched from Mambo in the first place! Hmmph! Would have been quicker just to design and code my own! I’ve just about had to replace half of it anyway!
/rant
😛 😆
Normally, you were hitting the link maximum, Hipparchia, so I understand why that happened, but Kryten was getting quarantined for no obvious reason. We both got caught on the minimum, which is a PITA and part of an up-grade.
Vent away.
Ah, yes, the joy of all of the wonderful new tools that allow anyone to do fabulous things on the ‘Net with no previous experience because they are so simple and self-explanatory. Been there, done that – too often to be good for my blood pressure. Makes you wonder who in hell writes the glowing reviews.
I have half a dozen books that feature simple and easy CMS, until you actually use them and find that one on the little bits that turns out to be crucial, is no longer supported, or has been altered to the point of being useless.
Sounds like a normal product development cycle, i.e. almost done and then it breaks on something that should be rock solid, and fixes that breaks something else.
It all looked so simple and straight forward in school, and then you discover the real reason for the choice of programming projects – they are the only things that actually work in the stupid language.