On watch – again
For Bernie, ongoing evacuations and moves with her young son and partner to the ‘safety’ of her parents’ home in Moruya will come to dominate January and February. She like many, will stay on ember watch as fire fronts, fire branches and embers threaten.
There will be an ongoing and reoccurring sense of being ‘on watch – again’ for the many weeks ahead.
The township of Moruya holds its breath.
A sense of time dissolves. Normal life falls away, and it’s hard to know what day of the week it is. Communications networks, power, infrastructure, EFT Pos, service station systems – and later radio transmission – will go down.
Summer holidays are stopped in their tracks. Thousands of holiday makers and Sydney and Canberra holiday home owners are caught up and directed to leave the shire before January 4 with predictions of extreme fire conditions similar to those that wreaked destruction on New Year’s Eve.
“Climate chaos stole my summer”
moving image credit : Bernie Richards
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6563254/get-out-while-conditions-allow-coast-holidaymakers-urged/