Gosh what a week, constantly monitoring the situation, seeing the fire expand, licking its flames onto some of the larger towns. People rallying round to help others with accommodation and pet rescue. Then it suddenly spread sideways coming nearer, but that was hit with plane upon water plane and helicopters.
Then out of the blue, a weather front appeared and saved some of the towns with 43mm of rain in a couple of hours, it certainly helped the progress but not enough to extinguish it. Our valley didn´t get any rain, so we are still parched. When you consider the weeks on end we had so much rain earlier in the year it all just evaporates
Hot spots kept appearing and it would flare up again, apparently due to the ground being so hot that flares keep appearing.
There are 4 stages to the fire according to the authorities, stage one has been raging all week, but thank goodness, news has just come in that its reached stage 2, so under control but not out.
The forest area will take ages to regenerate but as we know the seeds lay dormant then with rain they will spring back and start to spread, nature has it´s ways
I suppose you could say life can be complacent, so never under estimate nature and enjoy today just because.
take care
xcx
It's so easy to underestimate the power of nature. We have had drought here in the UK and everywhere is still parched, despite some torrential rain (which then caused flash flooding in some places.) Some fires are being set deliberately, which is dreadful. I hope you'll get some more lasting rain too.
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Ellie
Nature does have her own way sometimes... so glad you are safe...
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It is so true that we underestimate nature, it can bounce back but we do need to care for it too. I do hope you are able to continue you to stay safe.
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