2019 was a pretty great year for me. I got married and finally made the move from renter to owner.
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As the year started to wind down I was excited for what 2020 would bring.
I didn’t realise it would bring unprecedented fires devastating much of the nation.
We spent New Year’s Day at my mother’s after leaving our house when fires closed three of the four roads out. We watched the reports and constantly checked our fires near me app to see how the fire was travelling. We watched it go from 29 hectares to almost 1,000. Luckily, for us at least, it spread away from our little coastal town and moved inland. It’s still burning as I write, although thankfully it has had its status downgraded from “out of control” to “under control”.
When I was only 17 I fought a fire on my family farm. It took several hours and cost us a few burns, but we won the day. Twenty-two years later and I was not so keen on fighting another, and with one child with asthma, we decided it was best to get out before the final road was closed. Luckily it never happened. The roads reopened the next day and we came home.
Many others have not been so lucky.
Read the story from The Guardian - “Australia is built on lies, so why would we be surprised about lies about climate change?”
