I am not very tolerant of stupid people.I think it is absolutely horrid that arson is suspected in some of the Australian fire storm. In fact, one fire fighter yesterday was quoted on a news video as saying that as soon as they would get one brush fire out or contained it was re-started by arson. I know that arson has played a part in more than one New Mexico forest fire and several California wildfires. I think this is such a sad statement on human nature. Over 130 people are dead in Australia with dozens missing. The injuries and property loss is horrific.The law in Downunder has declared the charred remains a crime scene. There should be a death penalty for people that cause these things. I was thinking of bringing back burning at the stake.
Did you know when they burned witches that their friends brought wood so they would burn faster and be released from their torment quicker and with less pain. A big fire can totally suck out the air you are breathing so you suffocate. I wonder if anyone in Australia would bring wood if they caught the arsonists?
Speaking of stupid people (only a few or this blog could go on forever) many of those trapped on the Lake Erie ice flows actually bridged gaps in the water caused by cracks so they and their Budweiser could cross. The cost of rescuing these idiots has really taxed already strained resources of the states, and at least one governor was considering fining those rescued for costs. And why not? Maybe Budweiser will be willing to make a commercial using these idiots to pay for their defense against charges.
Oh, to prove you don't have to be drunk to be stupid, let me mention here the engineers that conceived of and built the Three Gorges Dam in China. All dams are generally on fault lines because that is where rivers like to run. But this one was built in a very geologically unstable area. The dam itself is the largest ever conceived. And the weight of the dam and now the water is believed to be the cause of that huge earthquake China suffered.
Let us not be too smug though because here in the United States we take joy from building nuclear energy plants on top of fault lines like over the San Andres fault in California outside San Francisco.
I think the lesson in all the above is, "It is not nice to fool with Mother Nature."
it certainly is not nice to play with mother nature and in the same way that one should respect the sea, one should respect the land. This reminds me of the fires in Greece last year but in this case there is nowhere for anyone to go. One cannot imagine the horror of running but not being able to run fast enough; of being trapped in one's car engulfed in flames with no way out. There is this in Victoria and thousands stranded through floods in Queensland. The elements are raging. But the elements needn't have raged in Victoria if a bunch of murderers hadn't been so vile as to go on a rampage and kill innocent people. Do they have the death penalty in Australia?
ReplyDeleteHi . lm from Sydney Australia.. the high temperatures that we have been having to say the least has been hot very hot..we.. at some stage of the weekend was predicted as the hottest place on earth , 47c that was for Sydney only .. we where lucky not to reach that .. but l saw this morning that Melbourne reached 45c .. we watch the news and your gut just fills with sickness and heart ache for the loss of life ..human as well as animal... But in times like this it brings out some real helpful people.."NOW" these People go into the homes that where lucky to remain free from the fire .. they are so "HELP FUll" they take what ever they can from the houses ..you know these people are scum and they are just as bad as the people that start the fires ... l was wandering if there hands should be cut off and maybe there feet as well so they cant walk or grab things .. and have them on some kind of world wide black list for never having and artificial limbs given to them and Looter tattooed across there foreheadlyst
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous, I am so sorry to hear about the looters. It may not be nice to fool Mother Nature but it is bad also to take advantage of people. Especially people in dire straits because of a disaster like this.
ReplyDeleteWe have been lucky here when there is a forest fire in that the people helping out have not helped themselves with other people's worldly goods.
There should be a special place in hell for them and the arsonists. Hope you all get rain and cooler temperatures. And no wind.
"There should be a special place in hell for them and the arsonists. Hope you all get rain and cooler temperatures. And no wind."
ReplyDeleteAmen, Jacqui...AMEN!