Hey
@void - thanks for asking.
In the last fortnight we had some fairly big fires jump across borders and into Australian Capital Territory. Which is no biggie because it's still the same dense, forrested, mountainous landscape. Some of the fringes of our Capital burned a little bit from those fires.
Since then a lot of Queensland and a large portion of New South Wales, (NSW) have received monsoonal type rainfall. Some places are now actually in heavy flood conditions. The Insurance Council of Australia is now declaring the floods a 'catastrophe'.
Anyway the rains have fallen on some of the 'mega' fires in NSW that were expected to burn for several months. They are now officially put out. Yay!
But unfortunately, not so for the 'mega' fires burning in Victoria. Unless similar rain is received on those fire-grounds, they will definitely continue to burn for months to come. Receiving similar, biblical amounts of rainfall, at this time of year, in the mountain ranges and high country is almost impossible.
So it's not over yet. Fires are still burning.
The only difference is that the novel Coronavirus and as you mentioned some other big events have diverted the mainstream media away from what's going on with them.
In the meantime apart from expecting a plague of locusts omg :banghead: depending on what you believe, because that's the order of things isn't it, famine, flood, locusts??? No... wait how does it go? - Officially most of Australia is still in drought because one big dump of rain does not endeth droughts. ..sigh...
But there are some people walking around beginning to believe that maybe, just maybe the drought might be near its end. You can hear it in their voices. It's called hope.
Other's who received none or very little or too much of this beautiful phenomena we call rain, are either cursing it because the soil on fire ground may become very unstable, on account of no vegetation to hold it there, so there are all sorts of issues like mud slides and erosion. Or, still out hand watering and looking to the sky.
In other words it goes on.
