Bushfires
By megs85
@megs85 (3142)
Australia
December 9, 2006 5:17am CST
Have you ever had any experience with bushfires, how did they impact on your life?
I live in Victoria Australia and there is quite a major bushfire underway at the moment.
I went to visit my soon to be parents in law today, and had to drive through thick smog (they live about an hour out of the city in the country) to get there. It made it all seem very real, and it was quite scary actually.
Do people from other cultures deal with the threat of bushfires? Or are other natural disasters such as tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes more of a concern in your region of the world?
7 responses
@megs85 (3142)
• Australia
10 Dec 06
So you do or you dont have any experience, didnt quite get that one mate? If not, what natural disasters occur on a regular basis in your country?
@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
10 Dec 06
Nope, I never experienced that before. Maybe they do in other places, I'm not sure.
@Kaorin (756)
• Australia
11 Dec 06
I live in Victoria too. I live about 40 minutes out of the city and since friday there's been a thick covering of smoke that stinks of burning wood. We've had the streetlamps on all day. It's so surreal. I'm just lucky I don't live too far out in the country...
