I wasn’t in direct danger from the fire, but close enough that we couldn’t really go outside due to smoke and ash, many occasions we couldn’t see the house across the road. My kids school kept them inside most days. We couldn’t leave town for fear of being cut off.
Combined with the summer heat, no aircon, and not being able to open the windows, it got to 38° in our loungeroom a few times. I was studying the wind charts madly for those brief periods in wind shift where the smoke from one fire was blown away and before the next fire blew in. We had fires north, east and south of us.
2003 Canberra bushfires. My little city was made to burn.
2019 Black Summer bushfires - see: whole fucking country either on fire or enveloped in smoke. I owned a tonne of masks before Covid hit.
We’ve been lucky in the last few bushfires seasons since but it won’t last.
2019-2020 was fucked up!
I wasn’t in direct danger from the fire, but close enough that we couldn’t really go outside due to smoke and ash, many occasions we couldn’t see the house across the road. My kids school kept them inside most days. We couldn’t leave town for fear of being cut off.
Combined with the summer heat, no aircon, and not being able to open the windows, it got to 38° in our loungeroom a few times. I was studying the wind charts madly for those brief periods in wind shift where the smoke from one fire was blown away and before the next fire blew in. We had fires north, east and south of us.
And then COVID hit.