Bushfires In Victoria
I don’t often watch the news. In my experience, the really bad news travels so fast that you hardly need to watch the news in order to keep up. The rest of it I can really do without.
When the kids put the tv on a little while ago to watch a DVD, I happened to catch a snippet of news saying that at least 50 people had died in Bushfires raging across Victoria.
Thinking I must have read wrong, I decided to search the net for the latest news.
Oh my….
65 Dead, Hundreds of Homes Lost as Bushfires Rage Through Victoria
Just a couple of the news headlines right now.
For the entire heatwave, there has been the dread of a life threatening bushfire. But I imagine no-one imagined anything like this.
It’s so shocking and awful and tragic that words fail me.
Please spare a thought and a prayer for those who are and will continue to be affected by this horrible tragedy.
I know there is tragedy every day, somewhere in the world.
But this…. it’s so close to home that I guess it hits home even harder.
If you’re someone who has been affected (directly and indirectly), I want to send out my heartfelt sympathy to you.
I feel so helpless.
I’m sure there will be appeals in the days to come.
A way to help us reach out and say that we care.
Cos that’s what us Aussies do best. We pull together in a crisis. No matter how near or how far.
It helps us to feel just that little bit less helpless.
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I turned the news on too Jodi but didnt expect 25 mins of fire reports…there are many shocked people, still many inaccounted for and some children just devastated and hysterical… who knows what they have lost besides their homes…. and one poor firefighter they tried to interview broke down as he had left his wife and 2 littlies to go fight fires…. who were perished… .
I did just hear that the proceeds from the cricket match in SA on Tuesday will be sent to help those in need and the govt is giving them more money overnight to help buy essentials but it never replaces the emotional trauma that most face….
I feel stunned too….. realising too how close the fires were to my cousins…..and SO thankful SA has not had such fires.
Ironically like lots of things Australian,,,, there are floods up the north coast and fire devastation down south! But the fires were apparently deliberately lit.
Praying that many find peace in the God of the Universe in this tough time.
Lets just be learn to be thankful for all we have and not take things for granted.
L
It is just too shocking and devastating…
And to think that some of the fires which have been brought under control have been re lit by the fire bugs. I am a Christian, and I believe in forgiveness…but I’m struggling with this one.
Words fail me. I can’t believe that people would light these fires on purpose. 2 people have been charged in Sydney for lighting fires over the weekend - one on the Central Coast and one in the mountains. Thank god they caught them. There was another one lit in the middle of suburbia which they think kids lit yesterday.
My thoughts go out to all those affected by the fires. I just can’t get my head around having absolutely nothing other than the clothes they were wearing at the time.
I think we are all in shock - we are modern people, it is a very old-fashioned tragedy.
I was explaining to some folk on an American board I am on that it is nearly 2000km to the fires from here, 1200km to the floods - we went swimming on Saturday as it was such a gorgeous day - but now we are gutted for those poor, poor communities.
I hate feeling this helpless. I wish it would rain. A statewide downpour.