Marguerite
Active Member
We now have a small TV on our computer screen and a TV show tat has been heavily promoted has just begun. It's a fictional account of what serious bushfires would be like in a Sydney crippled by drought, with water supplies down to 10%.
A few months ago (when tis was being made) this was looking feasible. Thankfully, our dams are now back up to almost 60%.
I wanted to watch this - Aussies do good TV drama. husband does not want to watch it - his memories of the 1994 fires are still too close. My memories - they were bad, but we dealt with them in different ways.
Like a lot of people around us, we both went into PTSD over the 94 fires. I had a difficult labour mixed in with it all which only made things worse for me.
So far it's been a good, well-made show. But they just cut to footage of these fictional fires. Of course they can't light afire and film that - so they're using file footage. And some of the best file footage - it's our area. I was just looking at the screen and saw the road into our village, as it looked in '94. The human stories it's telling - they were our stories. Families trapped away from home, separated, evacuated, health crises, phone calls from relatives trying to find us - it's still very vivid.
I'm not sure where difficult child 1 is tonight, he's probably with girlfriend. If they're watching this, it will be upsetting him too.
Amazingly, very few people died in '94. When you see the size of the flames we faced - it was a miracle we didn't lose a lot more.
The film is dealing with the problem of firefighters not having enough water to put out the fires - we lost our water supply for a week after the fires, we had to swim at the beach then go home to sponge off with a bucket of water from the bathtub I'd filled with the last of the supply.
In fires since then, we've lost friends. One young man, a little older than difficult child 1, was a volunteer firefighter who died in cleaning up operations.
I just heard difficult child 1 getting home. This means he has been on the road since this program started (it takes half an hour to drive through the bush to get home). I suspect he won't want to watch this either.
I think I need to. We took a lot of photos back then, photos of the bush growing back after the devastation. It's the one thing that gives us encouragement - to know that a lot of these plants are designed to survive fire.
Marg
A few months ago (when tis was being made) this was looking feasible. Thankfully, our dams are now back up to almost 60%.
I wanted to watch this - Aussies do good TV drama. husband does not want to watch it - his memories of the 1994 fires are still too close. My memories - they were bad, but we dealt with them in different ways.
Like a lot of people around us, we both went into PTSD over the 94 fires. I had a difficult labour mixed in with it all which only made things worse for me.
So far it's been a good, well-made show. But they just cut to footage of these fictional fires. Of course they can't light afire and film that - so they're using file footage. And some of the best file footage - it's our area. I was just looking at the screen and saw the road into our village, as it looked in '94. The human stories it's telling - they were our stories. Families trapped away from home, separated, evacuated, health crises, phone calls from relatives trying to find us - it's still very vivid.
I'm not sure where difficult child 1 is tonight, he's probably with girlfriend. If they're watching this, it will be upsetting him too.
Amazingly, very few people died in '94. When you see the size of the flames we faced - it was a miracle we didn't lose a lot more.
The film is dealing with the problem of firefighters not having enough water to put out the fires - we lost our water supply for a week after the fires, we had to swim at the beach then go home to sponge off with a bucket of water from the bathtub I'd filled with the last of the supply.
In fires since then, we've lost friends. One young man, a little older than difficult child 1, was a volunteer firefighter who died in cleaning up operations.
I just heard difficult child 1 getting home. This means he has been on the road since this program started (it takes half an hour to drive through the bush to get home). I suspect he won't want to watch this either.
I think I need to. We took a lot of photos back then, photos of the bush growing back after the devastation. It's the one thing that gives us encouragement - to know that a lot of these plants are designed to survive fire.
Marg