WTF Australia??

[blamebrampton]

Guess what natural disaster is currently rampaging across the top half of New South Wales? 

Go on, guess!

Did you guess flood? A gold star for you.

Now guess what the latest threat from the fires down in Victoria is? 

Contamination of Melbourne's very marginal water supplies.

Oh Australia, you are so hilarious!

An update post on the Victorian fires later tonight, and for anyone wondering when the plague of locusts is going to descend, that was last November.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the people are mostly decent and pleasant to be around. It's as though they're compensating for Nature ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

mere is right about the toads ...

Happily the only rain of blood has been Red Cross donations.

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

They're from the same era and were both made into movies?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Um ... sort of? I suppose they're also both American and feature humans ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I have grasshoppers noshing away here. Little hopping buggers.

I used to be very blasé about things and was often heard to say 'Oh, in Kenya ...' or 'Oh, in India ...' or 'Actually, in Wales ...' But over the last few years I have been forced into the realisation that Australia is just bloody weird.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Au contraire, you got Jackie Chan!!

And don't worry about the locust miss, it is an accepted fact of life in the journo trade that no one reads past the first few paragraphs ;-)

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

Lol, yes! Precisely!

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

also! Birds in the title! See!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

*Gives Look*

BTW, Ang is coming up on Thurs night (late) so if you are around on Friday, we could have an attack of gelato or some such!

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

Oooh yes please!

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

At least when it comes to making small talk at parties, the weather is actually an interesting subject... also, guaranteed job security for meterologists and climate scientists.

Both more in the small mercy category rather than the saving grace.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Murray Darling system will fill up and the good people of Adelaide will have some water for a change?

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Hilarious in that not-at-all-funny and you-can-stop-this-shit-any-time-kthanks sort of way. *hugs*

My heart goes out to all. Stay safe.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I was halfway through a big fire update post when the news came through that a firefighter had died when a tree fell on his tanker. And I just had to stop and have a little rant at the universe.

This is one of the reasons I am an atheist, because I want the Christians and Muslims and Jews I am friends with to feel they have a great and powerful god, who is, in most cases, merciful and just. Whereas the world I live in could only be explained through a theistic view as being governed by one sick fucker.

Maybe the Vikings were right and just put Loki in the wrong part of their pantheon ...

[bryoneybrynn.livejournal.com]

*reads comments*

*is glad to live in Canada*

Austalia is the land of the fearless, isn't it? I have many fears. Especially spiders. I think I'll stay here where the biggest threat I face is the squirrel on the laundry line and the raccoon on my neighbours roof who won't come down if the backyard light is on...

Anyway, I was just thinking about you last night and wondering how you were doing. :)

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

It's entirely possible: got to be better than flooding the lagoony bit with seawater. And while Bourke may be an isolated mess this week, I saw a prediction that the water from there will reach the Meninee lakes, which would be another useful thing.

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

your country is too crazy right now.

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

The world is topsy-turvy even more in your part.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

That would be it

~is impervious to looks~

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Mr Malfoy is pleased by your admiration and wonders if you have some money or power you'd like to send him as a token of your appreciation?

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

One Ancient Egyptian myth has the world created through what Victorians coyly referred to as an act of self love. If I were ever tempted by a religion, that's the one I'd go for.

[suonguyen.livejournal.com]

The only time I watch the news is when Im at work, but gosh Australia really is getting it all isn't it, well our side of the map anyway. I hope the floods aren't affecting you too much.

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Why am I here??!

You came for all the deadly creepy-crawlies and stayed for the sex!

[2amconversation.livejournal.com]

More people should live in WA, I keep saying this. It is nice here, and the toads are still very far north.

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

I think all our rain-wishes were misdirected...