Hanrahan@slrpnk.net to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 10 months agoLA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkLA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?theconversation.comHanrahan@slrpnk.net to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
So, could something similar happen in major Australian cities – and how prepared are we? The answers are: yes, and not very.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down1·10 months agoDid everyone forget how Australia was entirely on fire a few years back?
minus-squarevividspecter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·10 months agoThe fires mostly missed the major cities. Although dealing with hazardous levels of smoke for much of that period is not nothing.
minus-squareSalvo@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·10 months agoCanberra doesn’t count because there are only Politicians there.
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoHalf of it burned in 2003 anyways. And unfortunatly parliamentary triangle doesnt have any water restrictions during droughts so its not dry.
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoOn one of the commercial news channels the other morning, some yank talking head they had on for whatever reason said “I’m not sure how familiar you are in Australia with wild fires” as part of the introduction…
Did everyone forget how Australia was entirely on fire a few years back?
The fires mostly missed the major cities. Although dealing with hazardous levels of smoke for much of that period is not nothing.
Canberra doesn’t count because there are only Politicians there.
Half of it burned in 2003 anyways. And unfortunatly parliamentary triangle doesnt have any water restrictions during droughts so its not dry.
On one of the commercial news channels the other morning, some yank talking head they had on for whatever reason said “I’m not sure how familiar you are in Australia with wild fires” as part of the introduction…