BUSHFIRE SEASON Are We Ready?
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2023
- Surely it can't be worse than last time?
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"Are we ready?" We're as ready as we'll ever be, so not very.
is 7 pm bruz, it's time to go beddy bye
Nice to hear the slur "pin-dick" get some air time again.
how many of those waterbombers we where told we needed in 2016 that we didnt have for 2019 have we bought?? 1 (remember 1 crashed in 2019 also although it was borrowed)of the 20 something we needed for 2019 which was a milder fire season than this one will be ??
NO WE ARENT READY NOT EVEN CLOSE
*correcting for location context*
My extended family were living in Kinglake West, Victoria when the fires hit. They didn't realize how bad the fires were until it was too late. Their neighbors lost their lives fighting off the fires surrounding their property.
My cousin stayed to fight the blaze while his family drove to a safe area.
While his family were driving, they were about to turn on to a main highway and realized it was backed up. They decided last minute to go down a back road to avoid the backlog. A few minutes after they made that decision, a fireball blew down the highway and killed everyone on that road.
The cousin who stayed, when it was too late realized that the fire was surrounding him. He couldn't see or breathe. He called his pastor to tell him he was going to die. The pastor, who knew him and the property well, told him to crawl towards where he thought his Creek was. He couldn't see a thing due to the flames and smoke, but ended up finding the creek and passing out in it. He survived the blaze.
yeah those fires were fucked, they were everywhere.
@@guesswho2778 it's just terrible as originally the guidance was stay and fight the fires. I know that guidance has changed now due to those fires.
@@CarwenoBlueboots the only advice ive heard when it comes to bushfires is to make a plan long before it happens and be ready to go at a moments notice, preferably as soon as possible.
it sucks i know, but bushfires can be deceptively fast and you can easily lose your chance to leave.
if that creek wasnt there for example, that cousin could have easily not survived that.
Holy crap man.
@@guesswho2778 unfortunately a lot of the plans people made were stay and fight the blaze.
Totally agree on how fast these things change. And yes, that Creek absolutely saved his life.
Man, the more I learn about the Liberal party, the more I question the existance of human dignity.
Just wait for this summer before making a decision. Jordies has very selective vision. Think us as nation need to come to the conclusion that fires are gonna win some cause climate is changing and rly nothing we can do about it
@@joshturner8322 What?
@@theonewithin609 dude had a mini stroke mid sentence
both parties are corrupt as hell and foreign owned
We blocked out 2019-2020 fires because of COVID…it was too much
Who could ever forget the infamous Black Summer fires???🔥🔥🔥. Everyone who lost their home, business or a loved one certainly won’t.
Insurers forgot it almost as soon as it happened.
@@tangledfish … That’s what pissed off the people who were most affected… The fact that these insurers failed to act as soon as they were requested to in the face of such widespread devastation 😠😠😠. My wife & I almost lost our home but our place was saved by a sudden torrential downpour & the arrival in the area of water bombers & firefighters. The flames came as close as 60 yards from destroying our home. We moved well away soon after. I honestly don’t know what they (the insurance companies) were thinking, sitting on their arses while people who were SCREAMING for help failed to get it from the very people they entrusted with their money???
@@gerardroll6468 this is insurance companies under capitalism, here in the US virtually every form of insurance is like that, doesnt matter what it is they seem to pick and choose when theyre going to do what theyre contractually obligated to do
And the majority of the masses because of a certain pandemic 🦠
@@hellofafella … And yet they wonder why they are so despised, almost at the level of real estate agents & politicians. One would think that when someone or some people live through & lose practically everything in a natural disaster that these very insurance companies would absolutely “cut the red tape” & do all they could to actually HELP victims, rather than HINDER them.
As a Canadian military who spent the good part of the summer battling our lovely little northern bonfire, I wish you good luck…
I remember South Africa flying crews out of Kelowna this summer. Absolutely insane. A lot of our local firefighters head up north to help out as well.
Thanks for your service, this last summer was something else...
We will need it
As a Midwest American that breathed in all the Canadian fire fumes, I also wish the Australians the best of luck.
On a more serious note, thank you for your service.
This one hits hard, i was at Warragamba dam and watched the fire go down the mountain, was only visiting family, told my father we should go now, LITERALLY the last car let out before they closed it all off. Sadly my auntie lost her house.
@southfront. 0_0 I thought due to my utter contempt for YT comments that you were trolling. "hell you might be" but it happened years ago. Gladly she and her friends all survived. So we were blessed in that aspect.
@@Malkieification Yes, they're being sarcastic. Nobody has eaten enough lead paint to sound that retarded, and lived to tell the tale.
I was watching a video of Albo calling Dutton a boofhead in parliament. Then I started reading comments underneath of people complaining about Albo and Labor. I was saddened by these comments when suddenly the notification for this video popped down from the bottom of my screen and I immediately thought "I summoned him". My hope has been renewed, thank you Jordan.
LaboUr?
@@MrPsychochickens autocorrect, well spotted
Yeah I saw that too
People, especially the Coalition faithful, forget that Labor has only been sworn in since the end of May last year...
I saw the same video with very similar comments on my reels. Unfortunately this happens everytime. ALP get in for a term or two, then get bent over a barrel for the dumbest shit then boom LNP for 10 years. ALP get in by the skin of their teeth after a decade of everything going to shit. ALP then try and spend the term or two they have un-fucking everything the LNP did then the cycle continues again.
Already out fighting fires near Tenterfield. I joined RFS after 2019/20 after watching half my region burn.
I work as an ecologist in my dayjob. Fire, drought and land clearing brought me down to a pretty low place.
Aldo Leopold nailed it in 1949 when he said;
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise."
Good quote.
I'm in the Glen Innes area and we are already getting ominous amounts of smoke.
As someone who’s just completed my studies, and working part time in a bush crew helping regenerate the land, I can attest to this. People see the bush but I see sickness all around. Good luck with your fire-fighting and thank you for being of service.
Nice one mate, I also joined straight after the 19/20 fires, I was sat there gettin pissed off that scomo (the dog) wasn’t doing any thing, and then I was like, hey I’m not doing anything either! So then I joined!
Join the R.F.S. and make a real difference in the World.
A crew from Sydney on 6/9/2019 turned up, brave as fuck, saved our Home and disappeared in to the night like the Super Hero's they are. Don't even know who they were.
Fucking Legends!
I remember the sky turning orange in New Zealand. It was very spooky to see.
It was like that in nz too?
@@user-jl8lp4fn8v Nah its that the smoke was so bad that it wafted from the east coast of australia to new zealand, Actually it travelled so far it was visible in California
The main thing I remember about the fires… Actually, the aftermath of the fires was ScoMo’s disastrous PR stunt & the level of disgust the public showed him deservedly when he actually came back from his “holiday” in Hawaii to act like he gave a shit… But the public showed him the contempt he deserved in hilarious fashion 😈😈😈
Remember him forcibly shaking that crying woman's hand who lost her home?
@@ShazzaCNR … Absolutely, & let’s not forget that boofhead who then stood between her & ScoMo trying to act like he cared??? 🤨🤨🤨. Who can blame her for acting the way she did, as well as those firefighters he tried the ridiculous “forced” handshakes with??? 🤨🤨🤨
@@ShazzaCNR… What about that understandably pissed off firefighter @ 2:43 in this video???
@jesstownsend9635 … I remember thinking at the time that if looks truly could kill, then ScoMo would’ve died right then & there. Our very own “Emperor Nero” DESERVED every bit of disrespect & contempt he displayed throughout & that PR stunt of “touring” the fire zones was a bigger disaster than the fires themselves.
And now Sky is spinning the narrative of globe trotting Albo.
I still remember watching some of the scenes on the news. Never before or since have I seen stuff like it. Navy ships off the coast evacuating a whole town, cops driving through a town about to set alight, all sorts of terrifying scenes.
A whole bunch of RFS were stationed to a town 30 minutes north of where we were living, fighting a fire they probably couldnt get to without entrapping themselves. Aircraft are so essential in the terrain we've got here. In the place I'm volunteering now, we'd only be able to fight the fire from the road in a lot of areas. I'm glad we're improving our aerial capacity under Labor.
Oh my poor sweet Jordan... at 12:06. Its even worse than that. Eucalyptus trees have evolved to REQUIRE fire to reproduce! It is a tree that essentially WANTS to be burnt, just not to completion like in the Black Summer fires.
Its fuckin nuts though, ay!
I'll never forget spending the whole of New Year's day thinking I was going to die to either fire or smoke. Can't wait to experience that trauma again!
My memories of the black summer was from Perth with family over east. We were getting alert after alert for fires. We were very disconnected from it all but then we flew over for an early Christmas. I want to say around the 10th of December 2019. We landed in Sydney, looked out the window at the terminal and we were in shock. What got me the most is you could tell the people who came in from interstate and those who live there. Those who just came in were looking in horror, those who lived in the area looked tired but kept on walking. We then drove up to Newcastle and on the highway was a convoy of fire trucks going north with lights and sirens on. They were sticking to 80kph on 110kph stretches and the driving was obviously exhausted. My now wife and I were debating if it was OK to overtake a lights and sirens fire convoy given we were going 110. I was riding shotgun with my wife driving looking at the constantly changing alerts and working out alternative routes around warning zones. Of the week we were in Newcastle and Sydney, we had a total of 12 minutes where we could see blue sky through the smoke. I will never forget it. The emptiness of returning to Perth and seeing the blue skies again felt awful as we knew what the other side of the continent was feeling.
Can promise you from first hand experience - a lot of the older RFS trucks are slow because they're older and full of water. In a convoy, we stay slower as it's safer with 2 tonnes of water on the back - and yes, it's fine to overtake them on the motorway as long as it's safe. :)
8:31 Can we take a moment to appreciate that Gladys has barely aged a day from her early 20s?
Because she looked 50 years old when she was 20.
her only change is a few more cheek wrinkles.
Black summer! That one time Australian fires hit not one but two countries with smoke so thick the sky went dark! Its wild to think it reached NZ but then again we had to cover the doors with damp towels to try stop the ash from coming in and wear masks in attempt not to inhale smoke (only for people to complain about masks 3 months later in covid)
I recall these fires very well as I was a firefighter and was involved in some of these fires around Sydney and south coast. You are spot on about the budget cuts from the liberals. This played a huge factor in the response to some of these fires for instance on the 31st December along the south coast there were clearly not enough resources in place for the fires that tore through there, and when they did eventually respond trucks to the areas they got them from so far away, “Sydney” that by the time they got there it was way to late. Whilst these fires were beginning to burn down towns fire trucks in closer proximity sat in fire stations and we not even used. The disaster happened because of bad planning and even worse response organisation.
Wtf
Clear your debris, ration your water for an emergency. It's fire season people, stay prepared and stay safe!
NSW RFS member here. Was out this week fighting fires in Tenterfield. When we received trucks, most did not have AEDs (Defibrillators), one truck we drove for two days without shock absorbers, one's tank had a leak that would not stop leaking and another only had a 6 metre long first aid hose. That was just a few of the issues. One of the vehicles in active service we were driving was made in 1979, need I say anymore.
Jesus! Best of luck to you! 😢
Lmao my grandmother said those exact words "it would be worse under labor" then proceeds to say shit that liberal did in the canberra region 😂
don't forget that we're living in the world that her generation's ignorance and negligence created. harsh but true, scary stuff, lucky we have the internet to be more informed and hopefully make better decisions - politics and an awareness of them is a civil duty imo, everyone needs to pay attention
The Murdoch press has been pushing hard to discredit the current government wherever it can, we need more journalism like Jordies to keep the LNP out.
I'm suddenly reminded of how the Murdoch press tried to pretend that most of the fires had been started by arsonists. Of course that was a bunch of lies told be arseholes.
The truth was that a number of fires were caused by vehicles driven through long, dry grass or by other such accidents. Not arsonists. Bloody Murdoch lying press!
@@21kiwi24if you honestly believe Murdoch isn’t a festering pus bag who would tie you down and shit in your mouth for a dollar than holy hell you’re duped by big fat white lie-spreading billionaires who laugh in your face while not only shitting in your mouth, you’d gladly pay them to do so.
The Merde-och press can go fuck itself. Rupert and Lachlan are neo-FIBeral terrorists. There, I've said it.
[sits back & waits for the AFP to show up at my front door...]
I'm sorry but Albo discredits himself everyday...we have gone from bad to worse. both major parties are full of corruption and empty promises.
For those of you playing at home, the '09 Bathurst would be his second of 4 race wins on the mountain.
We don't count the last one when he defected to the blue oval. Absolute sacrilege 🤮😢
In all seriousness, Bushfires are one of my biggest irrational fears. I am safe in suburbia but oh my gosh. I panic.
I mean sacrilege was putting a yank donk in an Aussie car.
The barra was built here and would have chopped all those pushrods xD
@@MrAshyb87We knew that back the early 90's when the Sierra's and Skyline's were dominating everything in touring car racing.
The V8 guys didn't like turbo cars winning, that's really the problem.
How is being scared of fire irrational??
@@willbeasy2898read the full sentence bud.
They're in a suburb that isn't at risk. So it's irrational for them personally.
@@UnliVWjust because they live in a suburb doesn’t mean it’s safe from bushfires
The black summer was one of the main reasons I signed up to the SES. I was thinking of it before but it really cemented in my head that the community needs to be trained for emergencies on this scale as it would probably happen more frequently.
Cheers from northern California, had to evacuate my fam for six weeks during a fire. I worked fuels reduction at the time.
Three of the four places I previously rented in Lahaina, HI burnt down in September. Fires are only getting worse.
I remember, January 6th 2020. Middle of the day, smoke was so thick it blocked out the sun, there was a chill in the air. In the middle of the Aussie summer. I also remember all the people coming through with utes and trailers full of their belongings, all coming from places the fires had already gone through. At the worst point, the fires were about half an hour from my town, thankfully the wind was blowing in the opposite direction.
On the Black Summer fires. The smoke in inner Melbourne was so thick that on many days you couldn't see more than 100m down my street, and I was wearing N95 masks to get to work. Weeks of heavy smoke. That photo of Sydney doesn't do it justice. That was what it looked like on a good day.
On behalf of our nation's firefighters, THANKS MATE, GOOD ONE.
Man it shocks me how often people have no idea when I'm talking about when I say a 2019 repeat.
i hunt a lot in the central vic region and genuinely concerned about this fire season. A lot of the bush has lots of "clearings" that are just dead and fallen tree's, especially the wombat state forest around blackwood. not only is there fallen dead tree's everywhere but the flora's just dry as bones. All the area's i go to are in desperate need of control burns or we could be facing a huge issue.
Why are they not doing prescribed burns... The land needs it. The foredts spring back to life... Aboriginal people did it for thousands of years .. Numerous plant species need fire to seed/germinate....
@@transkryptionwe are doing this in Victoria. The FFMV (Forest Fire Management Victoria) burn for six months of the year. In the Wombat, they’re currently salvage logging. The real problem, which no one ever mentions, is PRIVATE land. Farmers and other landholders own the majority of land across our states compared to public-owned parks which is a single figure percentage of total land. This is the same for all states. Private landowners are the ones who aren’t conducting hazard reduction burns. So much overgrown grass I see as I travel across the state. @perryperch8948
Yep its bloody dry here already, parks Victoria think locking the gates is a great plan. I’m surrounded by lots of that bush. People around here do what they can on their property’s but its not going to do much when theirs that much fuel left on the ground. The green in my local council who stopped any firewood collection and stopped any cultural and reduction burns. When asked if he was going to help fight the fires he gave a scomo response.
three words @@transkryption labor state government
same government that oversaw black friday...
You forgot the best part. Remember when they tried blaming it on the greens.
Probably because they (somehow) got bored with blaming it on the ALP...
Seeing a video title like this, in November, as a Scandinavian is rather eye-opening.
Not so much the bushfires themselves, I kinda assumed Australia was on fire 60% of the time anyways.
But the fact that the seasons are so drastically different on the southern part of the globe.
I can almost guarantee that the first counterargument to labors' response to this fire season is that they only did well because they learned from the response to the 2019 fires.
Worse, they'll point at the better result and say "Obviously these fires were easier to deal with!".
Same as when they claimed the economy was under more pressure from COVID19 than the Global Financial Crisis and that's why our economy lagged worse under the Coalition. It was an obvious lie because far fewer nations went into recession during COVID19 and those that did were back in black within months, whereas the Global Financial Crisis sent all developed nations (except Australia) into recession and many of those took years to recover.
Trees pumped with oil!?
*America has entered the chat*
We had a bunch of bushfires in WA last weekend. Unusually early start to fire season and the fires will be much bigger in the coming months
Pretty sure a binch of that was prescribed burns when I looked... It's proper forestry management! Something I think NSW and Vic has a problem with
Some of it was prescribed, but unfortunately there were a number of fires that were mostly caused by dry lightning strikes. One of them jumped the freeway to the other side. It does seem we do forestry management better than the eastern states though
@@transkryptionin a season like 2019/2020 hazard reductions done fuck all, 20mm grass had a 1m+ flame height
It's much harder to do adequate reduction burns on the Eastern coast because everything grows more over here plus so many more towns and houses.
Check out on maps all the green area on the Eastern side of the country, which all turns brown and dry in droughts.
I will never forget what happened during the black summer. What happened in the Bega valley during that time can only be called disastrous. 1000+ homes/sheds destroyed, 4 lives lost and historic buildings and features lost to fire. That along with the Tathra bushfire a year prior. The community is still heavily effected till this day from the devastation that has occurred from these events, this combined with little support and recovery efforts along with Covid straight after have rendered the community fearful of another calamity such as black summer in the region.
I'm currently working on the new weather systems that are being built and it's crazy. It is actually covering the whole country. They are going to the extent of measuring how far water rises in creeks and river to allow communities down stream to prepare for or evacuate when there is a flood coming. And not just 30 minutes notice. Some will have days notice once the project is complete. There will be rain gauges in every single town in the country as well as in between in rural areas. There is even systems being installed that have cameras so you can go and watch live as the water level rises in water systems. This project will take another couple years because it is so huge and complex but we will start to see changes from the sites that are being installed right now in the coming months. We have only just gotten our feet wet with this project and already we are seeing a massive difference with the data coming in and it is exciting to know this will help the whole country in the coming future.
Great news!
... that outtro has me thinking Jordan might be the one setting the fires... be on the lookout for absolute fire following in his wake at all of his shows this summer.
I remember Garth and black Saturday.
Gotta appreciate that while Jordie rags on both the SMH and ABC, he still has the intregrity to quote their stories if they aren't full of shit. Should tell you how bad the Daily Tele and Courier Mail really are.
and usually when he does rag on them, he'll point out specific examples (like in this video) to demonstrate the point.
I remember driving across the harbour bridge every day and not being able to see the other end of the bridge through the smoke! My poor asthmatic dad is STILL recovering from the smoke.
"by the time this is edited, my office might have burnt down as well as my house!" AGAIN JORDIES??? AGAIN?!?!
Also for those overseas who don't know our bushland requires burning off to continue to grow.
It also helps control fires, surprisingly
I'm so used to be in the opposite season from the US that at first I thought "Bush season? But we're about to enter summer!" and then I remembered that this is Australia and they're also southern bros.
Of course I remember it. “Scomo: shake my hand!”
3 Billion dead animals is such a mind boggling amount of dead animals... Like nearly half of all humans just being burned alive- actually insane.
Thank you for remembering the animals. I advocate for our native wildlife after watching and reading how they suffered during these horrific fires, and I have friends who helped rescue the animals in the aftermath. I can’t imagine what they experienced firsthand and how the animals suffered as they were dying. Dozens of incinerated animal carcasses on the ground were found 😭
Oh my god that Garth Tander joke gave me a nostalgia wave.
And I'm Canadian.
It shook me, I’d never thought I would here Jordon yell “remember Garth Tander”
I’ll never forget the photos of Mallacoota. I was living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne at the time & I’ve never seen the sky turn those colours before. The smoke was unbearable.
missed black saturday i take it
@@arroeducarlion4990 nah I was here then too. Had literally just moved down from qld. Was living in st Kilda at the time & didn’t own a tv though so I only overheard everything from neighbours.
For the first time over the weekend I heard an actual bushfire emergency warning broadcast on a major commercial radio station. I have no idea if this is NEMA’s doing, but half of being prepared relies on accurate and timely communication of emergency’s, so I already feel a little more at ease from hearing the warnings. Don’t get me wrong, it’ll still be a long hot summer, but so long as we have as much time as possible to enact our bushfire plans, we can come out of it better.
Haha i live on the west coast (southern Oregon) and yk since the earth is tilted n all that, it's becoming winter here thank all that is holy. Yall get it just as bad as we do over here no joke, last 3 years weve got over 500aqi (average ~700) for months during summer ;(
The wildfires here get pretty bad cause of how much dense forest there is. It's beautiful until it's a photo taken straight outta hell itself.
2 years ago we had the "Almeda fire" ravage through Northern Cali and Southern Oregon, literally a whole town less than 10 miles away from where im at in the tiny town of Ashland (yes its called ASHland for a reason) and from one of the biggest cities in Oregon, Medford. The entire town of Talent and Pheonix (the 2 towns between Ashland and Medford) burnt to a crisp, millions of dollars in repairs and ~50k without homes. We got lucky but it was a too close to call.
It was great to see you at Brisbane! The show was HILARIOUS! my friend and I couldn't stop laughing. We wanted to bring another friend of ours but agreed she'd probably have an asthma attack.
It was a shame we couldn't catch up after the show. Just wanted to say we really appreciate the work you and your team do for Australia. Thank you so much and keep it up! Can't wait to see your next show
That Barnaby Joyce gag was worth the admission price alone.
As an American I can testify that Supercar racing is legit.
More American than NASCAR
@@Dexter037S4 maybe not more American haha but the actual racing is better than nascar or f1. Imsa and wec are pretty solid rn tho.
Technically the Government both Local and State are the ones that should be responsible for our bushfires. By not adequately making and maintaining firebreaks. By not carrying out sufficient backburns to reduce fuel loads. By not allowing the growers of trees to put in place sufficient fire breaks, of not doing sufficient to clear fallen tree limbs that die off given time. By allowing Greenies too much influence in the say, of how maintenance of the country side may be conducted.
Householders especially in fire prone areas should have plans to keeping their properties free of fuel ,oads at the commencement of fire season. Ensure their gutter are free of dead leaf litter. Of encouraging home owners to install fire fighting systems that include roof sprinklers, water tanks and generaters for pumping water, especially through power outages. Planning too ensure neighbours can get together in the build up to fire seasons to clear of properties with help.
I don't know how often firebrigdes offer residence in fire prone zones, their expertise and recommendations of what needs doing by residents, preppinh for 5he fire season. Do property owners keep any firefighting equipment on hand, so they can assist fire services.
Home owners who consciously install sufficient firefighting equipment and planning should be rewarded by their insurance companies. It's high time residents start being respon5 fir ensuring their property has a decent fire bbreak around their homes at the commencement of each and every fire season. It's all about training and preparation.
11:59 the trees are pumped with oil, but not gasoline! Please don't come and deliver freedom to the trees.
I live in the Hawkesbury, ya know Dominic’s land. 2019 was extremely catastrophic, but turned surreal at the end of the flame. Seeing the fire actually burn from the mountain and having to fear if we would need to suddenly pack up everything if the fire turned the other way. I still remember the burning leaves falling down from the orange sky. My dad was a arborist so helped. Even the metal on the signs got burnt. Driving near the bush just before the fruit bowl in bilpin and seeing just ash on the grown and charred trees. My mum had already lived through a bush fire and her parents house in kurrajong was burnt in the early 1990s. I think with experiences like that you can tell when it’s going to bad or extremely fucking bad.
I remember them well. we got lucky here. Though i spent a lot of time looking at the tracking site worrying because there was one listed as about less then 1km away that was marked as having no assigned fire engines “because there weren’t any to spare” and thinking if it got to the land behind us it would only take seconds for it to sweep down the mountain and across the dried up swamp and into our yard.
Also I remember keeping track on if the powerplant was going to get shut-off by the fires. they were contained not far from the plant.
Just remember everyone if you vote for the coalition you are literally playing with your life and the lifes of the community and people around you cheers.
Just so everyone is aware. US Wildland Fire Fighters are currently facing a %50 Pay cut coming November 17th
Im in Hunter Valley, eastern side of it. It...hasn't been too bad lately, at least i don't think so. Though the one at the dump got on my nerves, any near/next to Kurrir hospital makes me worry (where mum works). I am basing my comment on the title itself, because to be honest this upcoming summer is already giving me anxiety, it's weird though. I get an adrenaline rush when i see smoke; on a "oh i'd love to photograph that" but i also get scared and worried for people's safety and for animals' safety.
I have family and friends in risky areas, one of em in Kempsey.. yeah... haven't heard from them in a few months. Not sure how i'll be this season to be blunt. I can't simply distract myself, i look outside into my yard and in the close distance i see bushland and hope it doesn't catch on fire. Other side of Metford already had a small fire couple weeks back, that scared the fuck outta me, tbh.
Also from the hunter and honestly the whole place is a dry tinderbox at the moment, we’ve been lucky the local rfs has been able to get on top of the small fires we’ve had quickly. The watagans, Barrington and everywhere in between is in desperate need for rain and conditions that will allow for further back burning which is well behind schedule/target in the area.
@@rehanb637 oh 100% agreed, the rain we've had just then and the more soon to come, it's nice though that rain is needed else-where. I just, really hope our areas and the surrounding areas (like the ones you mentioned) don't get too bad, i cannot wish for no fires at all because i can't trust where the fires could or could not be.
Man, you have my best hopes to get through this summer
I loved that 4 horseman joke way more than I should have
…I put together a rolling hourly weather forecast that could predict cloud cover in a city block for the next hour.
With a few parameter tweaks, it’ll output temperature, humidity, etc.
I did this as an intern. In 2015. Because the prediction thing already existed - I just wrangled it to work on an hourly basis.
Again, in 2015.
Bush fires, Siberian forrest fires, Amazon forest fires.
All on a yearly cycle with their own dates.
You had some good timing with this video jimmy as parts of WA caught fire over the weekend
As a Canadian I gotta wish the Aussies good luck. Our wildfire season was brutal
During, some of the "wild" fires in the US specifically in Oregon, a few people were arrested for arson. Also, during the "wild" fires in Canada, I could smell the smoke across the border in New England. It smelt electrical even chemical. I have been in an electrical fire. Not a good experience.
As an American I cant imagine this guys live shows. I would imagine it something akin to a Wendover live show lol. On second thought that would be incredible.
Of course not!
Still waiting for those Air tankers John Howard promised to buy
No. From a Canadian, ya aren't ready for forest fire season.
Get extinguishment equipment on-site, and keep your petrol tanks or EV batteries filled up so you can run if you must.
Remember that many of your forests there (mainly the drier ones) in Australia need fire to regenerate, so it's not like you can justify aggressive fire management outside of the borders of civilization.
Get yourselves some walkie-talkie radios for communication in small groups and agree on a CTCSS code.
Me: Going to get some rain noises and sleep friendlyjordies :(eyes glow)
12:14 to be fair, I think your office and house have a higher than normal risk of burning down even when it's not bushfire season...
That photo of the 2 fire fighters I know and use to work with. He was a volunteer.
this dude should get a media company so he can run ads straight to tv's in all of Australia
I'm starting to feel like Canada and Australia's political theatres aren't too different. We had finally gotten a non-conservative party in power here, and the entire time was just smear campaign after smear campaign about how they were burning the place down. Naturally the conservatives got re-elected the next election. Literally mid-pandemic they decided it would be a good idea to cut nursing, EMS, Fire & education funding by significant margins. Naturally over the past couple of years we've had record numbers of uncontrolled fires, a dwindling number of paramedics including some areas being quite literally completely out of service and a mass exodus of hospital staff to other careers.
Oh, and all the meanwhile promoting privatized fire, hospital care & education. You know, Those things our taxes were already taking care of. But they're the good guys, here to protect us from the terrible communist idealists.
When was this? I thought the liberals in CA have been in power since 2015 and have been more or less running the country into the dirt since?
We’ve got the same problem in England.
It’s almost as if the global right has the same agenda.
"Can't be worse than..." Famous last words right there!
About 4-6 months ago I recall hearing a man (from parks and wildlife or some such organisation) saying Australia has conducted only 25% of the required hazard reduction burns.
When conditions were ideal for burn offs I saw only 2-3 that were done in my area (Noosa) which also saw evacuations during 2019/20.
It appears environmental destruction is on the cards.
There are so many variables with HR burns. What you think are perfect conditions may not be.
Ideal isn't just the conditions that week, its the rainfall, temperatures and wind about 2 months in advance.
Climate nuts will start burying trees next
@@theangrydrunkenchef I live near a regional park in WA and they were doing prescribed burns as early as late April one year ( pretty much unheard of).
I asked one of the guys why it was so early, the reason was because it we had mild late-Feb temperatures and enough rain in March such that the conditions were close to ideal here. So the idea was do it here early, to free up resources for elsewhere later.
@smalltime0 I'm on the east coast and a member of NSWRFS and it was a nightmare trying to burn. We had maybe 4 good weeks between April and September
Garth Tander reference… he really is a true Aussie
Thanks for including the central coast in your tour!
Reminds me of someone here in yank land, that tried to sue Calfire for taking water from his pool by helicopter to fight those raging fires in Cali. But on the bright side, courts told him (unofficially) to get fucked.
I know nothing about Australia, not sure if everyone there has kangaroos in their yard like we Floridians all have alligators. But I think jordies is my favorite Australian
Given we've already lost circa 50 properties and 2 lives in Qld this bushfire season already, I'd say no.
You need to do a video on the victims of black summer fires where has the 3billion gone to help them
He did a few months ago - in a video about John B - can't remember which one though
Whichever Muppet is in government, the question is: are they going to allow/initiate CULTURAL BURNS DURING THE SAFE SEASON? The practice that endured for millennia before European settlement on this vast continent. Or would that just give a handful of wise blackfulllas a job as opposed to hundreds of fire fighters/pilots etc?
They been spraying the chemicals hard in the past couple of days here in SA
In April, I was saying on my Instagram they need to get warning people now. That was the turn. The start of El Nino and the sun waking up.
We just had the coronal hole facing us and the temps spiked again here. It will be cool again in Melbourne when it turns away. Solar Max predicted for 2024 now not 2025. Keep your eyes on the skies, there's a lot going on at the moment.
I was like: “Holl up! But it is November and winter is coming!”
Then: “Hollup, Holling up!”
I nearly lost to my north European mindset.
Glad to see Argentina being joined by Australia in the "Long Run into the Ground by Mobsters" category. One Hell of a way to make people proud about the Southern Hemisphere.
Cheers, mate.
In the black summer fires, we had very little support even from trucks coz the resources were spread so thin. Had fires to the west and south and couldnt see 50m from the smoke.
We just had a decent fire, no where near the size of the black summer one but i think it was about 700 hectares and threatening 2 towns on either side of it. Within 2 days we had a 737 and mulitple helis dropping water for days and kept it at bay.
I know the pressure is nothing like black summer but theres no way we wouldve had that level of support even if the situations were more comparible
The biggest reason for the bushfires is because the government (labour and greens too, not just liberal) defunded the forestry, which manages our forest and does hazard reduction burns which lowers the fuel in the forests, and is how the aboriginals did it for 1000s of years.
That last bit at the end hit me like a freight train
Jordies you should follow up on the way the Shoalhaven used the drought recovery fund, spent it all on a new footy field at Bomaderry instead of further south where the fires actually hit. Greens mayor in charge too.
fire got so close to my town, we were on the news a bit. you would look to the hills at nighttime and they would be backlit by orange, unfortunately spme people that lived out of town lost their houses/farms.
As a Brit I didn't realise that it was a season. I thought Australia was always on fire 🔥.
The bushfire season is changing mate, burning off (rubbish undergrowth etc) is banned from Oct onwards... fires wd usually start around Dec.
Now we've already had a few big ones .. not even summer yet mate.
How many burnt hectares were developed by Stockland?
The house burning down joke hits different now 😭
The 2019-2020 bushfires kicked off a HORRIBLE year I try to forget but just like 9/11 it’s unforgettable
You would think they would be ready for a massive bushfire after black Saturday 🤦♀️
i remember hearing about bush fires some time ago, but it wasn’t close enough for me to remember it.
"More fuel on the ground than black summer" I would say a reliable source.
Not sure if Jordan is manipulating the algorithm or the matrix but I had a flight centre ad right after he made the joke about scomo and flight centre.
Where i live thereve already been a couple of days that smell of smoke and one that was a constant fog like smoke so its goin great in rural Australia