Watching television footage of Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

http://bit.ly/hL8MjG

Truly horrendous.

Watching a whirlpool developing offshore.

More survivor footage.

http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/tsunami-survival-heroics-caught-on-video-2238767.html

(Incredible image of Christchurch, from the hills, moments after the quake.)

http://i.imgur.com/0vZbD.jpg

My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of New Zealand

on the earthquake in Christchurch.

Stay safe.

I'll be heading into Sydney for the Australia Day celebrations tomorrow.

So I'm putting this on today to get everyone motivated to give freely to the Australian Floods appeal BBQs which will be held at all Oz Day events.

Click here for Australia Day events calendar.

http://www.australiaday.com.au/

Watching a 'live stream' coverage of the Chilean Miners.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

The 5th miner has now being rescued, Jimmy Sanchez, aged:19 years.

Funny Photo

Illegal alien invades Sydney under cover of dust storm.

Two days ago I braved the dust storm that took over the eastern coast of Australia, as a field worker in Aged Care, I spend most of my time outdoors driving from client to client. I deferred one of my clients until the next day (Thursday) and thought I had come thru the storm unscathed until this morning (Friday) I awoke with a splitting headache and now on this lovely sunny,cloudless spring day I am home with a migraine .lol

A wall of dust stretched from northern Queensland to the southern tip of eastern Australia on the morning of September 23, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. The dust is thick enough that the land beneath it is not visible. The storm, the worst in 70 years. The concentration of particles in the air reached 15,000 micrograms per cubic meter in New South Wales during the storm, A normal day sees a particle concentration 10-20 micrograms per cubic meter. Strong winds blew the dust from the interior to more populated regions along the coast. Australia has suffered from a multiple-year drought.

The straight-line distance between the far northern edge of the plume on September 24 and the southern edge is about 3,450 kilometers (2,700 miles), roughly equivalent to the distance between New York City and Los Angeles.
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Late Friday night weather report: A dust storm headed for Sydney is likely to blow in early on Saturday morning but it's unlikely there will be a repeat of the dramatic scenes witnessed in Sydney on Wednesday morning, when the city was bathed in red, orange and yellow hues.

Clean-up continues: The recovery effort will be boosted by
the arrival of international experts today.
(AFP : Corporal Ricky Fuller)

International Help Arriving.

Meanwhile, a group of 60 United States fires recovery experts is arriving in Melbourne today to help with the aftermath of Victoria's bushfires.

Twenty-six specialists in assessing burnt areas and damage to water catchments are among the contingent.

Bodie Shaw, from the US embassy in Canberra, says the experts have been told they could be here for a month or longer, depending on the challenge of the task ahead.

He says almost half of the team's task will be assessing water catchments.

More here

"It rained (fire), it was like lava,"

HEALESVILLE, Australia (AFP) - Firefighters are battling to save Australian communities threatened by searing wildfires that have already claimed 181 lives, a toll that is expected to rise
here

A total of 450,000 hectares across the state have already been burnt out and 1,033 homes destroyed and authorities warn the threat is not over.

The 100,000 hectare Yea-Murrindindi blaze burns at the bottom edge of the deadly Kinglake Complex and if they were to merge with Bunyip, a 250,000 hectare mega-fire would be hovering close to Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs.

Firefighters were working furiously to build containment lines on Wednesday night.

"There certainly is the very real possibility that these fires may join," a Country Fire Authority spokesman (CFA) said.

He said hundreds of kilometres of control lines were being built to keep the fires apart.

More here

Australia's Bushfires
Today in each of the homes I visited, televisions were turned
to all the news channelsso even though I was working I was
able to keep up with what was happening.
Everyone is in shock, disbelief and sadness.

We are well prepared in Australia for Bushfires
but nothing could prepare the lost communities for this
horrific event.They say the firestorm at one stage covered
1.5km in 5 minutes. No-one could outrun it.
People who tried in their cars were blinded by smoke and
crashed into fallen trees.
Perished.

It is now 1.20am Tuesday morning and the last update was
135 dead and many injured.and on the other side of the
world people are trapped in their homes by snow.

Good Night.