Devestation

8 January 2016

Hey folks, you are probably wondering about the title of this post, since Wednesday there has been a big fire down where my in-laws live and well yesterday it went through the town - they are safe than goodness an there has been no loss of human life just livestock and that in itself is heart breaking.

The town 10 minutes down the road has been wiped off the face of the earth and it is still going.
The town where my family is well nobody in and nobody out except essential services, they have no power, little food and little water.  The town 20 minutes down the road has been evacuated and so have all of the little communities on the way.  Here in the city we have had a thunderstorm with lightning heat and winds so we to have had spot fires breaking out because of the lightning strikes and it is going to get worse.

To put it in perspective the fire that is raging has gobbled up 55,000 acres of land with no sign of slowing and the destruction in its path is horrendous - it melted the steel of a bridge located
( the road on it has collapsed) at the back of my in-laws place, they took a arial of the smoke cloud and the only way I can describe it is like a h-bomb that is glowing.
The worst part of this is there is nothing I can do to help any of my family members, as a person who can get very emotional very easy I am numb and can't cry.
So tonight wherever you are please hug your kids/husband/significant other, extra before they go to bed, give a extra kiss.Tell them you love them and thank god you are alive. xxxxxx