Loner Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2019 03:24PM
That's right, avoid a comparison with California. I haven't looked that hard.
But I don't see anything jumping out to compare the two.
But Australia's advanced warning system looks cool:
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www.washingtonpost.com]
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2019 04:50AM
I doubt the author was avoiding a comparison with California, but..
The Mendocino Complex Fire in 2018 burned more than 459,000 acres (186,000 ha),
becoming the largest complex fire in the state's history, with the complex's
Ranch Fire surpassing the Thomas Fire and the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 to
become California's single-largest recorded wildfire.
Currently in NSW as of 11th of December 6.7 million acres have burnt.
That's just one of the 5 states that is on fire at the moment. And officially
were 2 weeks into the fire season, all this kicked off in spring
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fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2019 04:32PM
burn offs are devastating financially, but mommy earth likes it rough.
froopynoopers Report This Comment Date: December 18, 2019 08:35AM
"That's right, avoid a comparison with California."
Yeah everything is always a competition with you. I've been reading this for a
while, you always have to be first, always have to be right. How pathetic is
that? You need to "win" natural disasters? You still lost. I don't get
it. It's an internet forum. It's as if you think you're something special.
Loner Report This Comment Date: December 18, 2019 01:14PM
Only when something is wrong, Froopy.
Comparing with California is the blatantly obvious thing to do IMO. But
Anonymous didn't. Instead the comparison was with 2 locations that would never
have a wildfire. It seemed silly. I did a quick Google search and saw no
comparison as well. That was weird. But I did learn about Australia's warning
system. So I made my post. Pulse stepped up. I learned something useful on
20191215. That was my win.
OK, so people are supposed to contribute to forums when they think that they are
wrong? That seems silly as well.
"I don't get it." Well sir, I get that.
"Something special" is a work in progress.
pulse Report This Comment Date: December 31, 2019 12:59AM
A massive amount of Victoria (my state) is on fire now too; The Guardian has a
map (which is where this pic was taken from clearly) showing how big the areas
burnt is; doesn't have Victoria listed on it yet, so the data is a bit old
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www.theguardian.com]
It's properly catastrophic
* 16 fires are burning at emergency level across Australia, 8 in Victoria and 8
in NSW, with the entire East Gippsland region under an emergency alert.
* One firefighter has died overnight, and others injured, in a “freakish
weather event” near Albury, described as a “fire tornado” that overturned
a ten-tonne truck on flat, stable ground.
* In Victoria, four people are missing, and premier Daniel Andrews said
authorities “have real fears for their safety”.
* 4,000 residents have been evacuated from the town of Mallacoota and are
sheltering on the foreshore, as the firefront hit properties this morning.
Photos taken from 9am showed the sky pitch black.
* Victoria’s emergency services commissioner, Andrew Crisp, confirmed
“significant property losses across all of East Gippsland”.
* 5,700 homes are without power in East Gippsland, and more than 200,000
hectares have been burned.
* 200 new fires started on Monday, and 60 new fires started from midnight until
now. These conditions were worse than predicted, and the bureau of meteorology
will be updating its forecast to be worse than originally thought.
* In NSW, residents of Cobargo were evacuated as the firefront reached the town
and impacted homes.
* People in bushfire prone areas between Batemans Bay and Bega, and also the
south coast town of Tathra, have also been told to evacuate.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: January 01, 2020 01:18AM
I had a quick look at the map from the Guardian. The area shown (even with the
out of date data) is larger than the entire country of Wales!