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Victorian bushfires - Nation's worst natural disaster ever

submitted by spoco2

1 decade 5 years 11 months ago

At last count 181 people are dead in the worst natural disaster ever to hit Australia. Firestorms moving at up to 100km/h (60miles per hour) have completely wiped out two towns and have destroyed more than 1800 homes.

Bushfires are a regular occurrence in Australia, but this is something else. The heat we've had for the past few weeks combined with just no rain for so long has left vast tracks of bush tinder dry and ready to burn. Throw in either lightning strikes, machinery not being properly used, or far too often some absolute a*holes deliberately lighting them and you've got a firestorm on your hands.

It's got to the point where plans developed as anti-terrorist have been put into operation to handle the situation.

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*promote this as it's all we're thinking about down here at the moment

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, February 8th, 2009 2:26pm PST - promote requested by original submitter spoco2.

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Yeah, it's awful. There's a brown haze even up here in Brisibane today.

750 HOMES??!!! 750!! Is that it? Biggest disaster?? WTF.

One California fire is more damage. One Mississippi levy breach. One Hurricane. New Orleans was like 750 homes undamaged.

>> ^joedirt:
750 HOMES??!!! 750!! Is that it? Biggest disaster?? WTF.
One California fire is more damage. One Mississippi levy breach. One Hurricane. New Orleans was like 750 homes undamaged.

How many dead though?

California, biggest fire: more houses... 9 dead.

Our current tally, over 180 dead

Joe why would you compare the horror of one disaster with the horror of another. I find the death of all most 200 people pretty fucking horrific.

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