Victorian Bushfires - Thirsty Koala Clip

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Permalink Reply by ॐ omshanti ॐ on February 12, 2009 at 5:36am

How amazing is that, thanks Leeeeeeeeeeeena.

Also, for everyone in Australia, Coles is donating all their profits from tomorrow (Friday) to the bush fire appeal, so if you can, do your shopping then.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 12, 2009 at 5:37am

I know, I know. Too cute.
And yes, I am SOOO going to Coles and taking all of their dragonfruit!

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Permalink Reply by ॐ omshanti ॐ on February 12, 2009 at 5:42am

Man, you should see the dragonfruits here at Coles - they look very sad and sorry indeed! I think I'll just be doing purchases like dunny paper and the like, he he.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 12, 2009 at 5:44am

Ha, that is ridiculous. They need to spruce things up!

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Permalink Reply by ॐ omshanti ॐ on February 12, 2009 at 5:49am

welcome to the country, my dear. They figure that us backward slow-pokes won't know the difference anyway. I think they ship out all their crap fruit here on purpose, LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 12, 2009 at 5:54am

HAHA. Bastards.

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Permalink Reply by Charles on February 12, 2009 at 11:41pm

I'd have never thought you could get so close to a koala.

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Permalink Reply by yoda on February 12, 2009 at 11:53pm

normally you can't get so close because they are up a tree. They are pretty slow animals, all that digesting tough eucalyptus leaves makes them not have much energy for much else, but they have very sharp claws to cling onto trees with.
The toll on the animals with the bushfires is HUGE with these bushfires where the heat was so intense, many of the animals will hide in a hollow tree and the fire usually doesn't burn through the wood, this time they've been pretty much cooked in the trees, at least they probably died from lack of oxygen rather than cooked alive. The stock losses are horriffic, sheep running across across paddocks in flames etc. There are so many stories of people loosing their life trying to save their horses/dogs/cattle/birds/etc so many finding the bodies of humans in cars with their dogs, etc

A lot of the houses that were supposedly well prepared had plastic piping for their sprinkler systems, the radiant heat from the fires (flames as high as 3-4 storeys) melted the plastic pipes before the flames even got to the buildings.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 12, 2009 at 11:57pm

Yeah, they say it got to around a thousand degrees celsius at ground level coz they found dollar coins and other metal melted together. I don't even know if I believe that though? A thousand degrees???? Can't comprehend that one.

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Permalink Reply by Charles on February 13, 2009 at 12:00am

Melted coins? That must have made you crazy.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 13, 2009 at 12:01am

Tell me about it.

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Permalink Reply by Leeeeeeena on February 12, 2009 at 11:59pm

There've also been some good stories though. Yoda, did you read about how a man and a couple of his neighbours survived by jumping into his concrete water tank? Was in the paper today.

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