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Post by kemp on Dec 12, 2019 7:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by Char-Vell on Dec 15, 2019 21:46:43 GMT -5
This old Saturday Evening Post cartoon seems appropriate for this thread, and somewhat Howardian.
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Post by eja on Jan 3, 2020 12:19:30 GMT -5
After what's happened with the US authorising the airstrike that killed the Iran general, World War III is now inevitable. Time to seriously start preparing for the end.
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Post by kemp on Jan 3, 2020 19:50:32 GMT -5
The middle east is a quagmire of disparate interests between various players, but I don't believe the strike will culminate in a World War, oh, there might be some retaliation, perhaps even a major clash, but one of the many entanglements in a geo politically troubled region. Terrible on a human level for those directly involved, civilian and military. Thing is, any major conflict could inflate oil prices, and that's also not good on an economic level, especially if we end up paying more at the bowser.
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Post by kemp on Jan 3, 2020 20:04:24 GMT -5
We have had major problems with out of control fires here in Australia. Victoria alone has had 825, 000 hectares burnt, two dead, and twenty eight unaccounted, hundreds of homes destroyed in this state alone. Some towns in the eastern part of the state have been evacuated, currently, there are evacuation warnings in major areas. Parts of east Gippsland look like hell.
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Post by kemp on Jan 3, 2020 20:18:46 GMT -5
Skies over the holiday town of Mallacoota The Navy evacuated 1200 people from the town. It’s the largest evacuation in Victoria’s history.
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Post by kemp on Jan 3, 2020 20:32:33 GMT -5
Hopefully, we get some major rain soon, that, and or get the fires under control, and there is also the threat that further fires in the alpine national park here in Victoria could unite with fires over the border in the kosciusko national park to form an unprecedented and even greater bush fire disaster, especially if we continue to get the very high temperatures in some parts of the north and strong winds.
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Post by Von K on Jan 3, 2020 22:56:33 GMT -5
Those fires are devastating kemp. Where are you situated? Hope Keith and Kail are alright as well.
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Post by kemp on Jan 4, 2020 4:09:53 GMT -5
Those fires are devastating kemp. Where are you situated? Hope Keith and Kail are alright as well. Just west of Melbourne Von K, but I also work in the CBD, thanks for asking about it. We are safe from the fires, at least the direct effects, some smoke haze, cleared out here, but you see the smoke blanket shrouded on the horizon, actually mild cool weather now, about 18 celcius. Kangaroo island off the coast of South Australia suffered damage, in fact, almost half the island, with some crazy phenomenon such as fire tornados ripping out the ground. I was a kid during the Ash Wednesday fires that ripped up parts of Victoria and South Australia back in 83, but never seen anything like this. Yeah, hope Keith and Kail are not close to the danger zones. I remember watching those reports on the Californian fires back in 2018, very destructive potential, should have probably stuck this on the catastrophe thread.
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Post by eja on Jan 4, 2020 12:58:36 GMT -5
The middle east is a quagmire of disparate interests between various players, but I don't believe the strike will culminate in a World War, oh, there might be some retaliation, perhaps even a major clash, but one of the many entanglements in a geo politically troubled region. Terrible on a human level for those directly involved, civilian and military. Thing is, any major conflict could inflate oil prices, and that's also not good on an economic level, especially if we end up paying more at the bowser. Yes, but Iran has powerful allies. China, for one. I for one think this situation is a hell of a lot more serious than most people seem to believe.
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Post by Von K on Jan 4, 2020 15:29:50 GMT -5
Just west of Melbourne Von K, but I also work in the CBD, thanks for asking about it. We are safe from the fires, at least the direct effects, some smoke haze, cleared out here, but you see the smoke blanket shrouded on the horizon, actually mild cool weather now, about 18 celcius. Yeah, hope Keith and Kail are not close to the danger zones. I remember watching those reports on the Californian fires back in 2018, very destructive potential, should have probably stuck this on the catastrophe thread. That seems perilously close kemp.
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Post by kemp on Jan 4, 2020 21:28:19 GMT -5
Just west of Melbourne Von K, but I also work in the CBD, thanks for asking about it. We are safe from the fires, at least the direct effects, some smoke haze, cleared out here, but you see the smoke blanket shrouded on the horizon, actually mild cool weather now, about 18 celcius. Yeah, hope Keith and Kail are not close to the danger zones. I remember watching those reports on the Californian fires back in 2018, very destructive potential, should have probably stuck this on the catastrophe thread. That seems perilously close kemp. If it hit Melbourne it would most likely be from the east, and in outlying areas close to bushland/alpine area, myself, I wouldn’t leave, but volunteer to help out, our city after all. We shall see what happens, all depended on weather conditions.
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Post by kemp on Jan 4, 2020 21:50:39 GMT -5
I suppose you could say that these bushfires are the real deal, a real threat to those of us living in those bush fire effected areas. How much of it is man made or natural I have no idea and will not enter that debate, but man, it does have a negative effect on civilisation. Our PM has deployed thousands of army reservists, and some craft to the bushfire danger zones. We are getting some rain sweeping across Melbourne, which is good, but I know that when rain mixes with ash on the ground it makes terrain more difficult for the fire crews to navigate, just hope that the blazes don't merge into a monster inferno. Just to put into perspective, these fires have burned more than twice the area that was consumed, combined, by California’s 2018 fires and the Amazon’s 2019 fires. www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-04/nsw-victoria-bushfire-conditions-to-worsen-until-unstoppable/11839672
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Post by kemp on Jan 6, 2020 7:31:54 GMT -5
Everywhere I went in Melbourne today, I couldn't get a breath of fresh air in my lungs. Normally, I'd expect the rain to clear the air somewhat, but that wasn't the case today. Even this far away from the fires, I expect the hospitals will be overrun by people with breathing difficulties. I can't even imagine how the folk up there are coping with the conditions. I was here on Ash Wednesday and on Black Saturday, and I wouldn't be surprised if we've got something much worse on the way this summer - and, in fact, it probably already is. Needless to say, I suspect that this is only a foretaste of what we'll all be facing in the future. ...... Yeah, more of the same in the next few weeks, and we in Melbourne are the ones better off. So much devastation from many angles. The National Farmers' Federation estimates more than 100,000 livestock as having been killed in the bushfires, either during the blazes or afterwards as a result of heat stress and smoke inhalation. www.9news.com.au/national/army-to-help-bury-livestock-lost-to-fires/884b1107-ba4b-409b-a72e-f7640cf19113
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Post by kemp on Jan 15, 2020 7:48:58 GMT -5
This city ( Melbourne ) feels like its kinda post apocalypse. Someone might as well make the above image into a postcard, although I think Canberra has the worst air pollution ranking by city in the world at this very moment.
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