The start of summer: 2005's first bushfire...
Its been hot. Very hot, cat sleeping on the shiny lacquered floor to keep out of the heat hot, not leaving the house even to go to air conditioning because its too hot to move hot. Just hot.
And I'll point out the frustrating thing. Look at the date of this entry. No seriously. It's October. We've got at least another month before its supposed to get this hot.
If someone tells you there isn't climate change they are lying. When I was in Grade 1 (1981) I can remember in late November/early December being told that we were moving our class out of the classroom to the covered cement area under the building because it was cooler. The temperature had reached 37 or 38 degrees Celsius and I remember this because it was so unusual. Now our summers are usually 37-40 degrees Celsius and the last five or so years has instituted a policy of including air conditioning in all school classrooms.
On Thursday night there was a bushfire which was so pretty against the D'aguilar ranges, just north of Mt Cootha and the TV Towers. I could see it from my verandah at the new house while I was trying to get some airflow to take the heat down in the evening. We have to lock the cat into the library or our rooms temporarily and open the front doors that don't have flyscreens but are very pretty and shiny even. My SO insists that a cat, three generations from wildcat, will be an indoor cat. Me and The Cat aren't so sure and I've got the scars to prove it.
StephenDann on lj linked us to this set of photos by Bandido of Oz of the bushfire and there's a shot (the first one that you see) that looks like our view but from closer - we have another hill and about three suburbs between us and them there flames.
Currently it's still hot, not as hot as Thursday with the smoke and flames keeping the heat in, but still pretty hot. I'm staying in the house, not moving until the evening and then I'm going to see Serenity for the third time.
And I'll point out the frustrating thing. Look at the date of this entry. No seriously. It's October. We've got at least another month before its supposed to get this hot.
If someone tells you there isn't climate change they are lying. When I was in Grade 1 (1981) I can remember in late November/early December being told that we were moving our class out of the classroom to the covered cement area under the building because it was cooler. The temperature had reached 37 or 38 degrees Celsius and I remember this because it was so unusual. Now our summers are usually 37-40 degrees Celsius and the last five or so years has instituted a policy of including air conditioning in all school classrooms.
On Thursday night there was a bushfire which was so pretty against the D'aguilar ranges, just north of Mt Cootha and the TV Towers. I could see it from my verandah at the new house while I was trying to get some airflow to take the heat down in the evening. We have to lock the cat into the library or our rooms temporarily and open the front doors that don't have flyscreens but are very pretty and shiny even. My SO insists that a cat, three generations from wildcat, will be an indoor cat. Me and The Cat aren't so sure and I've got the scars to prove it.
StephenDann on lj linked us to this set of photos by Bandido of Oz of the bushfire and there's a shot (the first one that you see) that looks like our view but from closer - we have another hill and about three suburbs between us and them there flames.
Currently it's still hot, not as hot as Thursday with the smoke and flames keeping the heat in, but still pretty hot. I'm staying in the house, not moving until the evening and then I'm going to see Serenity for the third time.
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