Victoria wild fires.

Hi Wimmera Farmer. Hope you and your family are safe. We hope your property has been untouched and you haven’t had any losses. Many houses have been burnt in that fire without life loss. People are missing in other fires around the state. We hope they are found safe.

Thoughts and Prayers to all involved - these disasters are terrible, let's hope no lives lost. --- cts

Hi, Folks.

Possessions and property can mostly be replaced. Lives CAN NOT. Stay safe.

Just my 0.02.

I hope everyone is safe too, and property losses are a minimal amount if any. Fire is not good for people or critters.

Is Australia getting any suppression support from other countries?

Interstate firies have come to lend a hand. The weather has calmed down and fire spread has slowed. Missing people have been found and are alive and well.

its so hot and dry with dry winds vegetation is just igniting.

there has been several people set there lawn on fire trying to mow it.

a farmer cut and baled his paddock then ploughed around the stack of bales they ignited cause of the hot dry winds. he was hoping to save the feed if a fire came through.

it was forecast to reach 46 degrees. then the following day there is supposed to be a cool southerly change and its forecast for 22 degrees.

we are a land of extremes.

as the poem goes:

My Country

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land –
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand –
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

-- Dorothea Mackellar

Thanks for concern we are all OK had 500 acres blackened a bit of fencing to do hundreds of trees damaged along the river but not complaining many much worse of than us. cheers WF

Glad to hear you’re okay with no major lose. The grass will grow back and the fences can be fixed. Replacing houses or your collection of old Cats would be a disaster. Even worse if people are injured or worse. Stay safe.