How are you today?

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I remember that heatwave Daz ,I was pregnant with Jess just 11 days from having him and was living in the Hunter-Vally at the time in Maitland ,I swear I lived in the above ground pool ,and then the Bushfires started if I remember right they started in Sydney and it only took them 42 hours to hit Petes Ridge and a further 48 hours to get to Toronto ,where my sister lived.

Those winds were unbelievable the sky was so dark with smoke the sun looked red.
None of us thought she would jump the ridge so quickly but she did.

My sister was evacuated as her yard backed on to the bush,thankfully nothing got that close.

Anyway Today I feel like a kid again took Jack for his run at the river Abby didn't want to go ,I found a Mulberry bush mmm...mmm... yum so I had a few it brought back memories ,my aunt in Victoria had one and we kids used to raid it lol.

Read that just sent a chill up my spine. The memories of that time actually haunt me. 2 years later I was in Japan talking to survivors of the Kobe 'Hanshin' Earthquake, the trauma was the same.

I remember sitting there is utter disbelief when the bushfire wied out 220 homes in Como and took a life...there is NO BUSH in Como, so for it to miss houses in Woronora which were in the bush and take 220 houses in Como was completely unbelievable. The house I was living inat the time was surrounded on all 4 sides by bush.

The red sun for days on end and the smell of burned bush and animals are still very strong in my memories.