User blog comment:AmaterasuWolf21/It's Burning/@comment-38115759-20200104232818

Thanks for talking about this, Ammy. We're experiencing catastrophic bushfires across the country, thanks to the worst drought in 100 years.

It's severe and it's scary, I've spoken about it a few times in the discord but I don't think people grasp just how devastating the fires over here have been.

I can't speak for AJ and Tangle as they live in the country's south and more urban than me, but things are pretty bleak in rural NSW. I live in the New England region, (Northern NSW) which is prime agricultural land, nothing but farms for 400km in almost any direction from me. With the drought, these places have just gone up in flames. We were hit quite hard at the start of the bushfire season, 2 people died, to which our charming MP said "Well, they probably voted Greens anyway", but things have settled here now as the fires have moved south. (AJ would be able to tell you more about it than I could at this point).

The long and the short of it is, despite the heat and a little bit of dread, most things have stayed the same in Australia, we're all thankful to the Firies for doing what they do and angry at the government for not doing more. I think everyone gets like that in a natural disaster though.

The country will come together and support each other through it, we always do.