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Melbourne: vision of the apocalypse?

13 December 2006 in Melbourne by Stilgherrian | 4 comments

My Melbourne friend Richard (one of the several Richards I know there) sends this photo of Melbourne’s smoke-filled sky today as residents face the massive bushfires.

Melbourne's smoky sky

He writes:

So far around 400,000 hectares have been burned.

Although the fires are burning in an area between 150 and 200km north-east of the city, they’re casting a smoky haze over Melbourne. You can smell it, even indoors, and despite the pollution in the CBD.

It’s like God’s fired up his pot-belly stove.

The Age is collecting further smog photos too.

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13 December 2006 at 8:33 pm

ed

Melbourne is not alone. Bushfires are burning across Australia. This map puts things into perspective.

14 December 2006 at 6:59 am

Stilgherrian

Sure, Ed. Or people can see much the same data without all of your advertisements linked directly from the Google Earth Community.

Using someone else’s data — maps from Google, bushfire location lists from other public sources — sticking advertising all over it and then posting a bunch of comments on blogs to improve your search results rating is little more than being a parasite. Cashing in on a disaster is particularly low.

16 December 2006 at 2:09 am

Richard

For some reason I’m reminded of these words from 1993:

‘…and so we hold each other tightly, and hold on for tomorrow….’