Skippie, > Well we have 33% of the national capital burnt out and 400 > homes gone, 200 serious burn victims. The hospital system > in Canberra is overwhelmed, as is the emergency services. > Similar situation has ocurred in the Snowy Mountains area > of NSW threatening villages and hamlets, vast areas of > forest have been devastated. Whilst Melbourne had 46C > toaday and also has big fires burning, but in forested > areas, however a group of 10 fires has joined into one huge > fire with a 75 km front. > > The devastation we are seeing is the worst in living > memory. I must admit that I am very gald to be in > Queensland, but with the way the drought has provided fuel > for fires we are not are not immune as 75% of the state is > tinder dry.
Stay safe, man. Maybe we should send a few of our AmerIndians down for rain dances. [Any PC replies should be sent privately, not to the list.] In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom Condon Glad to live in the rain capital of the US -- Puget Sound _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
