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Australian bushfires.
I feel so overwhelmed with emotion that I feel sick to the pit of my stomach.
Australia has witnessed the most devastating bushfires and all of us have been affected in one way or another.
I have been living for the past week on ‘high alert’, as my home is in country NSW and only 20km’s from an out of control bushfire that has been raging now since late January.
We have the fire pump set up next to the rain tanks, all hoses checked and ready, gutters cleared of debris and leaves and twigs raked away from the house.
I am awoken early each morning around 4am by the smoke wafting over our property and curling in under the doors and through the fly screens on the windows.
I constantly check the rural fire service website and my email for fire updates and warnings to prepare.
I listen to the non stop news until tears well in my eyes and fall down my face at the nations loss, so many lives, so many homes, so many children, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers…..
We will share our grief, try to help the healing through talking and sharing stories. It’s going to be tough though.
There really is no way to express the feeling of shock, devastation and loss. I can only give and hope that in some small way I can help…..some one.
