More advent-ures in .... zzzzzzzzz ...
Dec. 9th, 2010 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonOh god it is so hot here I can barely function ... which is no help to those of you with two or three feet of snow, sorry!
A large part of NSW and Victoria is currently underwater, including half my mum's cousin's farm. Happily they have high territory, too, and lots of warning, so the goats and ponies are all dry. This is more than can be said for the livelihoods of many cereal farmers and the homes of many locals, which are all underwater, the poor buggers. Thankfully few lives lost as yet.
The one upside of floods is no fire (yet. If the water goes away and things grow quickly and then dry out before the hot season passes, March could be grim.) This is more than can be said for Israel.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tsosh , news reports here say that the international effort combined with rain has seen the fires finally extinguished, is this true? So much devastation ... it's just awful.
If anyone knows of a good forest care group in Israel, I would like to send some of my Christmas money that way (says the atheist, look, it's ecumenical here!). A group that encourages natural regeneration rather than plants trees would be ideal, as the Carmel area says nature, not rows of pines.
Sorry for being such a craptastic commenter of late, I have melted. Monster and I spent yesterday competing for Sluggiest Mammal in the House, then Mr B came home and showed us how things were done.
A large part of NSW and Victoria is currently underwater, including half my mum's cousin's farm. Happily they have high territory, too, and lots of warning, so the goats and ponies are all dry. This is more than can be said for the livelihoods of many cereal farmers and the homes of many locals, which are all underwater, the poor buggers. Thankfully few lives lost as yet.
The one upside of floods is no fire (yet. If the water goes away and things grow quickly and then dry out before the hot season passes, March could be grim.) This is more than can be said for Israel.
tsosh , news reports here say that the international effort combined with rain has seen the fires finally extinguished, is this true? So much devastation ... it's just awful.If anyone knows of a good forest care group in Israel, I would like to send some of my Christmas money that way (says the atheist, look, it's ecumenical here!). A group that encourages natural regeneration rather than plants trees would be ideal, as the Carmel area says nature, not rows of pines.
Sorry for being such a craptastic commenter of late, I have melted. Monster and I spent yesterday competing for Sluggiest Mammal in the House, then Mr B came home and showed us how things were done.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-12-09 04:11 pm (UTC)Feels like the end of the world, doesn't it? Everywhere on the planet the weather has gone crazy. Now again, after having almost no rain, we're expecting floods on the weekend...
The fire is over, after 77 hours of burning.
For donations, I suggest The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (as linked above), or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael. From reading on their Hebrew website, the Keren Kayemeth encourages natural regeneration, but I couldn't find the English version of this particular article.
I hope it helps!