After years of drought, the inevietable has happened and firestorms have ripped through parts of southern Australia.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/a...ires/index.html

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I was reading about this earlier and saw the death toll was rising. I can't imagine how frightening it is for those who live there

I hope everyone stays safe.

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(last paragraph of the article)

I recalled seeing some headlines about flooding in QLD.
Obviously the solution is to turn the whole continent around so the north can dry out & let the floods put out the wildfires down south.

I'm thinking that the south aussies would regard crocs in their backyards to be a minor inconvenience compared to being burned up

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Well the cracks in my backyard are so big that I'm in danger of the Earth swallowing me whole while I'm hanging out my washing. I guess crocs couldn't be too much more bother.

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You'd think the way oil gets piped and shipped all over the world that it'd make sense to be able to pipe water from areas with abundant supplies to dry areas. Can't believe the costs would be prohibitive given the billions that get wasted by governments.