I think we all wish for that. Every morning the news here brings more heartbreak, doesn't it? - the people missing, the animals suffering, the homes and property lost. This morning a lady was being interviewed after losing her home and she mentioned losing her family history - and in some small way that brought it all home. It could be any one of us. Beautiful NYD here. I hope it rains in Oz soon - and rains hard.
My sister lives down there, she has no phone or power so we can’t contact her. She’s OK just frustrated with it all or was last time we were able to talk.
What a strange world we live in. With no power, no internet, no phone the only way our fire victims and those that live in the isolated areas cut off by the fires, can keep up with the outside world and more importantly keep up with the danger around them is to use a dry cell battery operated radio. The dry cell battery was developed in 1886. That’s modern technology for you.
She’s good. She was waiting for Aldi to open when I contacted her this morning. She was watching all the holiday traffic, warned to leave the south coast while they can as Saturday is going to be another horrid day. They estimate that the traffic heading back to Sydney will be a marathon drive of around 10 hours. Usually about 2 and a half from Ulladulla where she lives, to the outskirts of Sydney.
The conditions on the South coast have been horrendous and they are expecting worse in the comming days, they are evacuating as many people as they can and telling anyone who can get out, to go while the roads are open although the traffic bank up makes it very slow going, my grandson was down there but mananged to get home, finaly about 15 minutes ago.My daughter in laws mother and step father live in Malua Bay, theres been no contact since new years eve,the local police said the entire area was evacuated and the latest news is that the area was badly hit,no idea if their home has survived or not, but the worst thing is the lack of contact, to just know they are ok but with very little mobile or land lines, its a waiting game.
What surprises me is that anyone would risk going down to the South Coast parts for a holiday at this Xmas holiday time anyway, the writing was on the wall for quite a while. A few days before Xmas my eldest granddaughter was talking about doing just that, thank heavens my daughter managed to talk her out of it.
Derek, we did try to talk him out of going down, but hes 18 he and a few mates had been planning it for a while, I dont think he realised how bad the situation was, but im sure now,he will listen if anything like this happens again.
That's the problem with teenagers and twenty something year olds, listening to advice is fine but acting on it is another matter. My eldest is granddaughter is 25, I was horrified to learn she and her partner were even considering going down the South Coast for a holiday, as I mentioned earlier, after a discussion she had with my daughter common sense prevailed. I did note that the conversation volume level did rise at times.