RE: When will there be a reckoning?
Where is your family staying? I can’t believe all of these towns I was just in are now destroyed or evacuated or surrounded by fire not to mention out of food/ petrol.
My sister in law is an ambo in Canberra and she has been sent half way to the coast to help along the evacuation route.
Not being there, I was surprised to see photos of Bermagui being evacuated with people backed up on one lane of road. You would think they would turn all roads one way out of town. But maybe the resources don’t exist to do that safely? Or they need the other side to give emergency services access?
We were in that town Cobargo November 18.
My photo is on top here and some photo from the news is on the bottom.
Totally gone.
It is so sad.
Oh! And I saw Thredbo and snowy mountains are being evacuated now and Canberra is on high alert. They stopped delivering mail in Canberra because the air is so bad it wasn’t safe for the posties to be outside!
My in laws are at Tathra, which burnt up last year.... they will try and make a line for Canberra this morning. I hope it goes well, I can't imagine that getting stuck in a traffic jam would be a great thing either if the fires break out.
As for the sides of the road... I heard that there isn't the resources to safely do traffic management anyway, so it would be a touch dangerous on long stretches of road. Plus, as you said, there needs to be easy access for emergency vehicles....
Great for your sister in law... doing good work... I only wish there was a way to hold the people who got us into this mess accountable... but there won't be, after all, if you can't get the people responsible for more mundane things like oil spills or the Great Financial Crisis... you have no chance of getting accountability here.
I hope your inlaws get out without too much trouble @bengy. Xx
Have they made it to Canberra yet? I just saw a news report listing Tathra as a “everyone leave now” spot.
Yes, thankfully they made it back in the early hours of the morning without incident. Tathra might have bad luck two years running....