Ash Wednesday was preceded by Black Friday in 1939, Red Tuesday in 1898
and Black Thursday in 1851 all clearly caused by the Bush
administration--or maybe just dry Bush, I can't seem to keep them
straight--and also demonstrating a bias toward dramatic day of the week
names for nasty fires in OZ.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bill Babcock
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:03 AM
> To: Randall
> Cc: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [FOT] RE: No TR content [was Herman & Helena Van
> Den Akker]
>
> For that matter, long before we started trying to control
> these things there's no reason to think that continent-wide
> brush fires occurred regularly, in fact there lots of
> indication that they did. You don't need climate change to
> have drought, or even droughts to have fires.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Randall
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:35 AM
> Cc: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: [FOT] RE: No TR content [was Herman & Helena Van Den Akker]
>
> > Americans don't have any idea of what real bush fires are
> about. Lose
>
> > a few thousand acres and a state of emergency is declared.
> Go to Oz
> > and find out about real firestorms. E,g., Ash Wednesday
> (yes, really)
>
> > in 1976, 3 fires burnt 6 million acres in a single 24 hour period.
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think you're mistaken.
>
> The name "Ash Wednesday" was coined in 1983, when almost 150
> separate fires broke out in Oz. The fire threatening Herman
> & Helena's home has already burned half again the area of the
> largest of the Ash Wednesday fires, 160,000 acres vs 105,000.
> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ash+wednesday%22+australia
>
> The largest estimate I found for all the land burned in Oz
> that entire summer was only 1.3 million acres.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_bushfires
>
> Which is still a lot, but comparable to 2003 here in CA
> (approx 900,000 acres burned). And less than the 1.5 million
> acres burned in Yellowstone in 1988.
> Not to mention Alaska 2004 when a single fire destroyed 1.3
> million acres.
> (Total wildfire damage in Alaska that season was over 6
> million acres.)
>
> > fighting the Administration's deceit about Global Warming
>
> I guess we must have global warming under control, since the
> largest wildfires in the US were over 100 years ago ... 3
> million acres burned in Maine in 1825; another 3 million in
> S. Carolina in 1898; 3.8 million in Wisconsin & Michigan
> 1871; 2.5 million Michigan 1881; etc.
> http://www.nifc.gov/stats/historicalstats.html
>
> Randall
>
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