Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 at 19:24
Hi Motherhen
Where we live here in country SA, both are common way of life. Having said that, it is still many years since we have had floods. From where I sit, I would say fire are worse, apart from the great damage that it does, it is so cruel to see horses, sheep, cattle and native animals burnt beyond recognition, or staggering around half dead, just waiting for a bullet from a farmers gun it put it out of its cruel misery. Here in
Clare, we are able to control the flooding to some degree, but seeing walls of fire many metre high, the sound of gum trees exploding and fire balls hundreds of metres in front of the main fire front is very scary. During my life in
Clare, there have been two very bad fires, in 1965, and Ash Wednesday in 1983. The last major flood with over a metre of water through the main street was in 1975.
Neither are nice, but I would rather see water, and to think that those fires in Victoria were deliberately lit, bring back capital punishment.
Cheers
Stephen
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