Head Count For My Australian Friends!!!

It's absolutely horrific, Sconi. As from this morning there are over 100 lives lost and over 700 homes. At least two little towns have been completely wiped from the map - everything gone, the main street, school, police station, pub, and all the houses. Alongside the roads they are finding cars with bodies inside - these people have a few belongings packed into the back seats of the cars, but were unable to out-drive the fires. Others didn't even have time to leave their homes. It's the saddest and most ghastly time for Australia - while at the same time North Queensland is suffering terrible floods. What a country we live in. Thank you so much for your good wishes for Aussies ...

oh my.. i amm also worried i do have a close friend back there in australia and ive sent her a message and she is not replying yet...i am praying she is ok!

i am so sorry,i didnot know such devastating disasters were taking place there in austrailia.i did know there were wild fires occuring there but i didnot know about its extent.hope you and your family are fine.

I have been following this news story. It is great of you to start this discussion, sconibear. Nice to have a place to check back to hear from our friends.

There are so many friends on here from 'down under' and I join with you in hoping all is ok with them. The news and the scenes are so destructive Those that come to mind are Mushy and Chookie (ex Cookie) and I hope both will make an appearance here too.

hi sconibear, I had just responded to one of our mylotters in australia and as she and you said its really bad. I know just what they are going through as we here in Southern ca have had our fill of arson started wildfires that destroyed many homes and killed a number of people. One man was lost and got trapped in a fire storm as he had tried to walk back to his home in the middle of the blazing fire. A number of firefighters lost their lives in the last big fire we had. my prayers are going out tonight to all our mylot Australia friends and hope they are safe.

Thanks ever for starting this discussion sconibear. I too have a number of friends from down under....I emailed my one pal, Goodie...and she's okay, said she's thousand of miles away from where the fires are....also read here in this discussion Piscesmoon is okay...still need to contact a few others..don't have there private emails....Aussie, Anomalie and hopejordan--do you????

Hey, I hope all your friends are still here. I do not know anyone personally from Australia although my older cousin just left for Australia! I should tell my family about this! Happy mylotting!

Hey sconi! Yes, I have read about these fires and I do also hope that our friends down under are ok too! So I do hope that they will all check in and let us know that they are all alright and that their families are ok too! It was nice of you to check on our Australian friends! I hope that they will respond!