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12 Feb 2009 03:28 AEST
Miko
As someone who works in the Disaster Preparedness and response field, your story of an everyday bloke and his family, preparing to face this bushfire, was very touching indeed. It shows the courage that farmers like yourself must have to survive in the beautiful, but harsh Australian outback. I have been following this tragedy and its progress on International news - the solidarity among communities speaks well of the Australian spirit! I wish you and your family all the best.

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12 Feb 2009 07:24 AEST
Wendy
It was somehow consoling to read this touching blog entry from across the sea in Mexico. As an Australian who has lived in different parts of that wild & majestic country, the depth of emotion felt for both people, plants & animals that have been destroyed in this recent bushfire tragedy has been very real. There may be a dark, impenetrable quality to the incomprehensibility of it all, yet you have also expressed something of the human nobility that it has also given rise to. Thank you David.

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11 Feb 2009 08:43 AEST
Dominique
David, thank you for sharing your story with us. I can't fathom in my mind the enormity of what has happened. It's hard to imagine that time will dim this reality. We live in the Dandenongs and we have decided that we would never now contemplate staying behind and defending our home.

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11 Feb 2009 01:17 AEST
Kylie MacDonald
Hi David, thanks for so eloquently describing what us country folk are feeling, a sense of loss and empathy and the sense that we were the lucky ones this time. I feel a sense of shell shock as well, as I look out on the dust brown paddocks and check the horizon for 'signs' of anything approaching. The sense of community here in the Macedon Ranges and all over Victoria is the overwhelmingly positive thing to come out of all this.

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11 Feb 2009 12:22 AEST
Michele
living in the bush i have seen the horror before, what fire and flood can do. fire is the worst for it leave nothing behind. i my self have been through three bush fires but the one time i did loose everything was set by a person and thank goodness it was only my home not more. its funny there is no way to descride your feelings you are numb for so long and the real shock hits you later when you going looking for something and cant find it then you remember its gone, gone forever, lost.

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