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Another one people don’t seem to know about is the HMAS Melbourne/HMAS Voyager collision. I often wonder if poo poo like black Saturday bushfires is gonna slip out of the public memory too. I remember driving home from playing a show that night, listening to the radio, gradually realising how hosed everything was as people were calling in to ABC Melbourne asking if anyone had seen their relatives or friends. It seems really far away now.
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lol evacuating a hospital to a beach after an earthquake
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For the septics playing. We never ever ever get earthquakes in Australia.
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Here's some more classic Australiana: a bloke climbing the outside of Centrepoint Tower in 1986, filming himself the whole way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qch1Gd8VLK0 Spoiler for the end: it seriously made me laugh that a security guard watched him climb past on the glass, but nobody picked up him on the roof, he just ... opened a door, walked down the stairs, and got in a taxi home 
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baaderbrains posted:I often wonder if poo poo like black Saturday bushfires is gonna slip out of the public memory too. I think we're close to having a black every day by now. I don't think people will forget about them, but I think they'll merge in people's memories and they'll mix up the details of what happened during which lot of fires.
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spaceblancmange posted:I think I had conflated the Westgate and the Tasman bridge collapses in my mind until I saw a youtube video about the latter only recently and realised they were two events. What's notable about the Westgate collapse is that it has the highest death toll of any Australian industrial incident. Thredbo is the first time I remember Australian FTA stations going to truly around the clock coverage of a story.
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Ash Wednesday is still a very vivid memory for many Australians, so Black Saturday will always hang around, especially considering it led to a complete overhaul of the emergency warning and response system. All Tasmanians know about the Tasman Bridge Collapse and the 1967 Bushfires, known as Black Tuesday, that almost completely wiped a few towns south of Hobart off the map and made it into the southern suburbs. Hobart CBD  Southern suburbs   Towns south of Hobart    
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I think we've had multiple Black Whateverdays at this point, Black Tuesday to South Australians is the fuckload of fires around 2005 that burned down half of Eyre Peninsula.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think we've had multiple Black Whateverdays at this point, Black Tuesday to South Australians is the fuckload of fires around 2005 that burned down half of Eyre Peninsula. Yea, it's kinda sad at this point A: "Remember the fires?" B: "Which ones?" A: "The one where people died" B: ".....which ones?"
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you know, the one in the year between the two 1 in 100 year floods
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Some bomb rear end poo poo going down in WA https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1615934385743880193
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The fires 2 (?) Years ago really hosed my head I made up a little go bag, with batteries, radios, maps ,goggles etc I got real spooked
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I think this year is the flood year, if you want fires you'll have to wait for next year.
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Well they're think we may be in for El Nino by the end of the year, so possible we could be a flood and fire year!
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Since the last big fires, the ones that made everyone regret voting Scomo back in, it's been flooding somewhere on the mainland pretty much the whole time since.
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the Sydney Dust Storm
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Chrpno posted:the Sydney Dust Storm I had drunk a lot of tequila the night before that, slept through the whole thing. Had a text on my old Nokia from a mate that said "How are you enjoying the apocalypse?" and I was trying to figure out how he knew before I did how violent my hangover was. I left to get fluids, saw red dest in the gutters, figured some yuppie had done an outback holiday and had spent the morning washing his 4WD. Woulda figured it out by arvo
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Chrpno posted:the Sydney Dust Storm That was loving awesome. Like waking up on Mars. 
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Blow posted:That was loving awesome. Like waking up on Mars. 
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When the Marysville/Kinglake super fire was going on or around Black Saturday all of Melbourne was a disturbing orange colour and reeking of smoke. There was also that time a few years ago where Box Hill had the world's worst air quality for half a day or something due to bushfires.
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EoinCannon posted:When the Marysville/Kinglake super fire was going on or around Black Saturday all of Melbourne was a disturbing orange colour and reeking of smoke. There was also that time a few years ago where Box Hill had the world's worst air quality for half a day or something due to bushfires. I just finished reading John Birmingham's Leviathan again, absolutely recommended reading, especially if you already despise Sydney. I might start Roger Franklin's Inferno today, brush up on Black Saturday before the 14th anniversary which is in little over two weeks. It's a bit of a heavy read, as you could imagine. There's also hell of a doco film about it if you have a spare two-and-a-bit hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Uz8ltWOGU Maximum Sexy Pigeon fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I just finished reading John Birmingham's Leviathan again, absolutely recommended reading, especially if you already despise Sydney. I might start Roger Franklin's Inferno today, brush up on Black Saturday before the 14th anniversary which is in little over two weeks. He Died With A Falafel In His Hand is a quintessential piece of Australiana and you'll never convince me otherwise.
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Outrail posted:He Died With A Falafel In His Hand is a quintessential piece of Australiana and you'll never convince me otherwise. Agreed as gently caress.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I just finished reading John Birmingham's Leviathan again, absolutely recommended reading, especially if you already despise Sydney. I might start Roger Franklin's Inferno today, brush up on Black Saturday before the 14th anniversary which is in little over two weeks. Thanks for the doco and the book reco, will check that out I read The Arsonist: A Mind On Fire by Chloe Hooper which is pretty good and covers a specific part of the super fire complex thing
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EoinCannon posted:When the Marysville/Kinglake super fire was going on or around Black Saturday all of Melbourne was a disturbing orange colour and reeking of smoke. There was also that time a few years ago where Box Hill had the world's worst air quality for half a day or something due to bushfires. I remember I was working overseas at the time of the 2009 fire and wasn't really checking Australian news at the time. One morning I walked past a radio that could only just sort hear, was on when the news was starting and I just make out two different Victorian towns mentioned mentioned in the opening story. Brain instantly was just "oh gently caress, what loving terrible thing could be happening in vic that overseas news is mentioning two rural towns in their opening lines of their first story". End up catching up on a lot of not great news that day.
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The 20th anniversary of the 2003 Canberra bushfires just passed the other day. Destroyed hundreds of homes in the south side of Canberra. https://citynews.com.au/2023/how-canberras-bushfire-changed-the-science/ 
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I was in Melbourne visiting when the black Saturday fires happened. The cool change was a welcome relief after the heat and I didn’t learn of the fires till the next day cause I went to a gig that night
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Outrail posted:He Died With A Falafel In His Hand is a quintessential piece of Australiana and you'll never convince me otherwise. QFT Copper For Lyfe posted:The 20th anniversary of the 2003 Canberra bushfires just passed the other day. Destroyed hundreds of homes in the south side of Canberra. Since this thread has a bit of a hardon for the unedited raw footage of these big events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPpOXH0ADSg
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Ash Wednesday is still a very vivid memory for many Australians, I was in university when I figured out that when international people say 'Ash Wednesday" they meant something else.
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DumbparameciuM posted:QFT This video is very good, watched it years ago. There is that one triangle house they pass like 3 or 4 times and it just gets worse and worse along that road
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Did you know that if you drive through a fire there is no oxygen your car stalls? I guess a Tesla would be ok.
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I remember volcanic ash clouds making the sky go a weird colour when I was living in Lismore in the early 1990s.
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Lolie posted:I remember volcanic ash clouds making the sky go a weird colour when I was living in Lismore in the early 1990s. That would be the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. I was flying Sydney - Brisbane - Cairns when that volcano popped. Mid flight I asked the stewardess if I could go up to the cockpit. She said "I'll check with the pilots". She came back and said "Sure. come on up." Cue me and my gf walking up the aisle into the cockpit with the other passengers all like wtf. It was crazy. My dad was an Air Traffic Controller, so I kinda speak the lingo. It beats the poo poo out of the view out of the side windows. Punching through orange clouds. I'll never forget it. 9-11 hosed that up for ever.
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