Hi Everyone,

I live in Melbourne (Victoria) and want to thank all of you for your concerns and well wishes to ALL of us Aussies affected by this tragedy. The horrible scenes of carnage and the tragic stories emerging from this are heartbreaking. I have friends who, though thankfully didn't lose their lives, lost their family, pets and friends and absolutely everything they own.

Let me just say that at this point in time I am DAMN PROUD to call myself an Australian. The whole nation and some of the rest of the world have banded together and raised so much money and supplies. My colleagues and I went out the other day and accosted a store owner and told him we were spending big to by some much needed supplies for the victims and he'd better give us a good deal. He did. LOL.

I have cried every day since the fires began. Some happy tears for found loved ones and survival stories, then there are the sad and angry tears. Sad tears for the animals (I am an absolute animal lover), the victims, the injured, the compete loss. Then there are the angry tears for the as&^%%s who, with a simple can of Kerasene and a lighter, caused so much devastation. We are in the midst of a very bad drought and the whole state is completely dry.
Believe it when they say that it was raining fire here. It literally was.

Once again. Thankyou.