Getting sh!ttier by the day.
This is JUST the fires in one State NSW I shall post the other ones below.
Well over 5,000,000 acres burnt now. 500+ houses gone on South Coast NSW and 2-300 more in Victoria with many more expected over the next few days.
12 dead, 3 or 4 Rural Fire Service volunteers sadly 3 young fathers with pregnant wives and kids.
Batemans Bay where
@HansO lives is the centre of of activity and evacuation of all
non residents via the only road route out via an often still intermittently closed single highway and a steep single lane winding mountain pass to Cooma and Canberra. The traffic is banked well over 25 km (15 mile) in places.
Due to power outages etc similar 1 km long queues at fuel/gas stations and quite a few tourists with no have run out of fuel so many tourists can not get fuel to drive out before the expected flame fronts move under high winds and temps that form their own micro climates and dry lightning storms.
They are trying to evacuate 25,000 + tourists etc before Friday and especially Saturday when similar conditions 40-42+C = 104-108F+ to the BAD day New Year Eve when 300+ houses were gone in NSW in 24 hours and similar numbers elsewhere.
Canberra is in the middle with the worst reported air quality in the world city today. This will go on for days yet and months yet for the general situation.
Fires Near Me
Victoria has a similar situation evacuating all non resident and in remote and mountain areas full evacuation is recommended. A navy vessel is off shore readying to evacuate up to 1000 at a time from the 3500-4000 stuck in Mallacoota where many were forced to take sanctuary in or on the water's edge the other night.b All roads have been cut and they lost power etc a couple of days ago.
Incidents and Warnings - VicEmergency