Sydney burns...

“…if you tell me there
is no climate change I will go berserk…” – Labor Senator Doug Cameron.

100 fires over the state
of New South Wales and at least 8 -9 ringing Sydney – they say we’ll be lucky
if we lose 100 homes. All roads in and out of Sydney are basically shut. Power
is down and people are locked down in schools and shopping centres. Then at 4pm
this afternoon, the Rural Fire Service announced that they did not have enough
fire trucks…there are burnt leaves landing on my balcony and I am 100
kilometres from the fires…
Areas are Blue Mountains, Central coast, Mid North coast ( Williamtown Airport
was shut down ) Southern Highlands and Penrith and Camden area.

We had a 39c day last
week, hottest ever October day recorded. If this is our spring, what will
summer look like…?

‘This is as bad as it
gets’ – NSW bushfires live
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/bushfires-rage-in-nsw-as-emergency-warnings-issued-live-blog

Live blog: Emergency
warnings in place for New South Wales bushfires
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-17/live-blog3a-nsw-bushfire-emergency/5028762

Latest NSW fire updates,
Thursday, October 17
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/latest-nsw-fire-updates-thursday-october-17-20131017-2vo14.html

Hundreds left homeless as
the gravest bushfire emergency in a decade strikes NSW
http://www.news.com.au/national-news/nsw-act/hundreds-left-homeless-as-the-gravest-bushfire-emergency-in-a-decade-strikes-nsw/story-fnii5s3x-1226741636446

Dave404.