Monday, 9 February 2009

Forest fire tragedy

The national news here has been dominated by coverage of the horrendous forest fires sweeping South East Australia. The death toll is expected to surpass 200. Many of those who perished did so while trying to flee the fires, the latter sometimes traveling at 50km an hour.
The disaster has been assisted by abnormally high temperatures. In Melbourne the temperature reached 48.5 degrees a couple of days back.
Temperatures on the West Coast have, thankfully, been more moderate.

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