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WTF!!!
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25477361-10229,00.html
Carson Kressley.... Fucking hell.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25512084-421,00.html
Worst floods since 1974... Tough year down under.
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Terrible--looks like Climate Chaos in action. In my very inexpert opinion, a likely intensifaction of climate extremes.
Hope no-one on here has family or friends in the affected areas, and if you do, that they're safe.
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yikes... thanks for bringing that to our attention balki, i wasn't aware...
i don't actually follow much news from australia (home) since the age website makes me stabby; i can't get past the celebrity gossip shite
this is an awesomely adaptable news feed tho:
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Here we go again...
"Catastrophic fire conditions"
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I hope it's not arson again.
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*The natural fire regime was altered by the arrival of humans in Australia. Fires became more frequent, and fire-loving species — notably eucalypts — greatly expanded their range. It is assumed that a good deal of this change came about as the result of deliberate action by early humans, setting fires to clear undergrowth or drive game.
Plants have evolved a variety of strategies to survive (or even require) bushfires, (possessing reserve shoots that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds) or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in the leaves) as a way to eliminate competition from less fire-tolerant species.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BushfireWell, that I did not know.
Kinda cool, the aggressive tactics of the eucalypts, but I wouldn't want a firestorm brewing next door every year.
Can't even imagine how those things are when you are caught amidst one.
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trub in WA
Toodyay, not far from where I used to live. Full of Wandoo forest that area, and many recent subdivisions.
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Looks dreadful.
[ ](http://www.perthnow.com.au/gallery-e6frg1vc-1225814804687?page=23)Those photos are so spooky, with those seemingly boiled (?) liquids oozing out of bottles.
[ ](http://www.perthnow.com.au/gallery-e6frg1vc-1225814804687?page=22)And it's not all completely destroyed, it's as if the fire swept across the town/village just long enough to make everything unusable.
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Ah, thanks, Balki, I wouldn't have worked that out--mainly because it appeared to come from the heap of bottles in one of the pictures. :(
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Glad someone bothered.
That site is worth bookmarking BTW, it leads on stories that the mainstream media pick up on 12/24 hours later - if and when it suits their paymasters....