Freaky.

[seandc]

Whoa. Up until... well, twenty minutes ago the light around here has just been a really wrong shade of yellow washing over everything. Smoke from up north mixed with what's meant to be incoming rain. Huh, a cloud passed over, and then the light went red for a few more minutes. Thankfully the sun's set now, everything just looked dull and wrong.

Guess it just made me think once more of all the happy fun tales of post-nuclear-war societies (eg - Children of the Dust) I read as a kid (sorry Rachel, you're not the only one who can be morbid and creepifying), what would the light look like in the first few weeks et al. Lucky me, I started reading these only a couple of months before Gulf War I began...

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[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I heard that there were wildfires - how far away are they from you? (I don't recall where they are offhand - I just saw a brief flash about it on the news.)

[seandc]

Well, the fires over here were about 100km north, I'm reading (I'd not really paid much attention to the news yesterday, I just heard "north of the city") - wide area, but open land. I'd guess your news had the fires in New South Wales and Victoria, those killed at a firefighter and have been burning out homes, cars and farms.

The Powers That Be are warning of a possibly bad season for us though. Unfortunately, it's this way every summer.