CHAOS!

Our poor state is under a lot of stress at the moment.
I think about 1/3 of the entire state is under threat from bushfires. There have been thousands of people evacuated from their homes & still many many more under threat.
I take my hats off the the firefighters, they risk their lives for people & in this searing heat i do not know how they manage in the big suits they wear.
Luckily the fires are nowhere near our house but we are still getting a lot of smoke haze around. Some days it is so bad that you can't even see the houses down the street from you!

Yesterday the fires got so bad they cut off a major power connection. Half of Victoria lost power....which means no air-conditioners & it was 41.5oC yesterday!
It was total mayhem. There were over 1000 sets of traffic lights out, thousands of houses with no power & shopping centres & hospitals with no power. Families were ringing in asking how to keep their kids cool, very hard when we are on water restrictions.
The train system was packed as people were catching the trains home instead of battling the traffic but little did they know that the trains were running an hour late as they didn't have traffic lights either!
Luckily the state has their power back on now but sadly the fires are still blazing.
We are in for another scorching hot day today but hopefully some relief will come for us soon.