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Gridlocked posted:I will take this to the mods and see what they think. I understand and I appreciate the intent! I'm not sure my idea is workable either, just a thought. More good news: New Zealand glaciers turn brown and 'could melt faster because of Australia's bushfires' quote:Smoke and ash drifting from the Australian bushfires have caused New Zealand's glaciers to turn caramel brown, with one expert fearing this could increase the risk of them melting faster this year. https://twitter.com/Rachelhatesit/status/1212151684509519872?s=20
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PT6A posted:This all looks horrific. Donated $25 each to the NSW Fire Service and Red Cross as linked in the OP, hopefully that covers the cost of buying that other Canadian jackass the custom title. Someone must've left the gate open and he got out, sorry about that. Ratjaculation posted:Stay safe Aussie goons. Watching this with horror, and donated what I can. Thank you very much dear goons for your generosity to strangers 
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I got a laugh from a thing posted to a fb group for knitting and sewing stuff to help hosed up and displaced animals, just bc of only a moderate need for kitten onesies, understandably high need for other native stuff rn, but if you have been making KOALA MITTENS it’s ok, they have enough of those, just keep them at home for now thanks 🙏 At first i thought this was a meme essentially saying that there’s no need for them since there’s no more Koalas to help.
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PT6A posted:Have you got a link to that group? I like knitting and I might as well do something useful with it. I thought I posted a link to this but then I got drunk. I bet I will accidentally post it while trying to close the awful app on my phone later. Here's the group, its quite cool, I mostly just joined it trying to get opinions on orgs and courses that were worthwhile if I wanted to become an animal carer but they post a lot of cool stuff and from what I can tell if I want to look after hosed on critters I'll probably want to learn how to make a lot of this stuff https://www.facebook.com/groups/arfsncrafts/
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All of these have sound, right click and open them: https://i.imgur.com/Iz7Wjiu.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/G6CXi9w.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/tcy6neo.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/tVZiXpz.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/LwwmSHq.mp4
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It's 6:30am on the east coast and conditions are still extremely hosed down in East Gippsland. The Vic CFA emergency site currently has two current "Evacuate now" warnings and eleven "Seek shelter, it's too late to evacuate" warnings, some of which were just upgraded in the last half hour.  Some of those official warnings are incredibly grim, flat out telling people "If you leave your house now you will die"  Goddamn 
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The skies of Canberra have turned orange. People are going to be panicking, the last time this happened we lost 400 houses. As far as I know we're still without fires within the borders, but still. loving hell.
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Gridlocked posted:I will take this to the mods and see what they think. Ironically I just posted a link to this thread in the gbs perma stickied “Whats Hot: best forums reads” thread I started. Hope that helps.
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Mozi posted:More good news: Oh neat, feedback loops.
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From listening to one of the many NSW CFA radio feeds, the overnight shift is done and they're regrouping to try and fight the fire front at Nowra, the Currowan fire still expanding. Just hoping the winds don't blow easterly and blow the fire over the range.
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Aaronicon posted:The skies of Canberra have turned orange. People are going to be panicking, the last time this happened we lost 400 houses. As far as I know we're still without fires within the borders, but still. loving hell. I was looking at the fire map posted earlier, and it struck my that the nations capital, currently only has one exit - to the north - that is not blockaded by fire. And that Northern exit? has a fire close to it.
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I've seen a couple posts in the thread about people wishing to do something. Take this with a slight grain of salt since Aus Red Cross is not a carbon copy of the American Red Cross but looking at their website they're doing all the same functions. Generally speaking during any large disaster the RC is inundated with people who want to help, and they almost always get put to work. You might end up unloading a truck full of blankets or handing out water battles but that poo poo adds up. If you have useful skills even better, see if you can help out and be proactive about speaking to your strengths. I yanked a guy who just showed up out of the handing-out-bottles-of-water business because I found out he knew how to use Excel and I put him in into the manage-this-huge-database-of-megashelters business.
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Aaronicon posted:The skies of Canberra have turned orange. People are going to be panicking, the last time this happened we lost 400 houses. As far as I know we're still without fires within the borders, but still. loving hell. Scotty from marketing has to realise this is a bad look.
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There's more! https://twitter.com/Angus_Duncan/status/1213440268365713408?s=09
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Scotty just hosed up again. He did not bother telling the Rural Fire Commissioner (Shane Fitzsimmons) about his plans yesterday. Fitzsimmons is pretty much adored and has been kicking rear end and taking names and he looked pissed that he found out the same way everyone else did and was not consulted. https://twitter.com/smh/status/1213577862403543040 Hell even the NSW premier said she only found out right before the announcement. She is still is a horrible person though. Raged fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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Does anyone have a nice set of links to help convince someone who is falling for the sky news/murdoch press that this isn't the fault of the greens that it's bullshit?.
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Raged posted:Does anyone have a nice set of links to help convince someone who is falling for the sky news/murdoch press that this isn't the fault of the greens that it's bullshit?. You can't fix stupid, the best you can do is call out their bullshit in public to try to stop it infecting others. NoNotTheMindProbe posted:To add to this, it's been so hot and dry that subtropical rain forests in Queensland and Northern NSW that have never burned before have gone up in flames. Skellybones posted:The permanently cool wet forests that haven't changed in 50 million years are now on fire for the first time? Will the Greens stop at nothing to push their sick agenda?
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Raged posted:Does anyone have a nice set of links to help convince someone who is falling for the sky news/murdoch press that this isn't the fault of the greens that it's bullshit?. https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/12/is-there-really-a-green-conspiracy-to-stop-bushfire-hazard-reduction
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I can hear the yanks on the feed https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/24950/web
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:The Green Wattle Fire that’s spread towards the mountains now has its own name as of this morning. There will be very little of the world heritage listed national park that forms a majority of the mountains by the time this thing finishes. The suburbs and towns in the BM are stuck in a pincer. Is there potential for them to be overrun when and if they merge? This is horrifying.
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:The Green Wattle Fire that’s spread towards the mountains now has its own name as of this morning. There will be very little of the world heritage listed national park that forms a majority of the mountains by the time this thing finishes. The part of the Currowan fire that jumped the Shoalhaven river last night has also been separated off and is now the Morton fire. Firies are worried it could join up with the southern edge of the Green Wattle Creek fire which would be hosed because it would close the M31 Hume Highway if it did.
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