Australia - WTF?

[naanima]

Fuck. The toll from the fires has just reached 66.

Australia, what the fuck? QLD is flooded, half of its land is under water, and now VIC is burning down. Just what the hell?! Also, when will the fucking idiots realise that setting fires in AUSTRALIA in SUMMER is beyond stupid. Gods, I hope they get charged with murder, this shit cannot be scaled back to arson.

Death toll of 66 people, and expected to rise. Just fuck.

ETA: 76. I don't even know what to say.

ETA 2: 84. Fuck.

ETA 3: Over 2000 hectares of land gone, 108 deaths and still counting. Houses, livestock for farmers and wildlife all gone.

Comments

[dreamlessness]

this really alarmed me too, when i saw it on the news. there were video footages of the fires too, it was scary as hell.

[naanima.livejournal.com]

It is just insane at the moment. I live Perth, which means most natural disasters kind of skip us, except the man-made ones. Bushfires is something that happens every summer in Australia. Hell, there is currently over 50 bushfires in NSW, but they are not worth mentioning because they are so common. It just makes me so very angry when every year a group of idiots would purposely go and set some bushes on fire and not think of the consequences. Bushfires in Australia will continue on for a very long time, hectares of wildlife and animals die, and properties gets destroyed. Just because there hasn't been any human deaths till now does not make it ok.

I'm just really angry at the moment, and there are people I know that lives in VIC that I haven't been able to contact.

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

9:50pm = 84

[naanima.livejournal.com]

Fuck.