fires down under

[narfire]

Hey, hope any fiat owners in the south west Aust. are not impacted by the fires. Quite the pics in todays morning news.
It's our 10 year anniversary of the Okanagan Mt. Park fire here that burned up 240 houses and 25,000 Ha.

From the floods in Colorado, storms on the east coast, devastating typhoons in Asia now devastating fires down under...perhaps because I'm older, I'm paying more attention, but I don't remember the frequency and intensity these events had 30+ years ago as they do today....
Chris

[4uall]

I was 12, so I was not as aware as I am today in regards to the ever changing climate of our gentle planet

Todays media has certainly helped to deliver the information globally

I do my part by maintaining my vehicles for years

[TX82FIAT]

Hope everyone is safe with no damage to loved ones or property. Today we have a global media and news items travel faster than sound. A limited look at just events in the 80's will produce a quick incomplete list. The world is a much smaller place with a lot more people. I'm sure there is some relationship between mankind and these natural events. However, I don't think anyone knows just how big that relationship is at this point.

1980 - Mt. St. Helen's erupted killing 57
1980 - Italy earthquake $20 mil damage
1980 - Heat wave killed 1,117 in southern states
1982 - Drought Australia $6 mil damage
1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits Texas
1983 - 5.2 Hurricane hits central NY
1985 - Volcanic eruption in Columbia kills 25,000
1985 - 8.1 earthquake in Mexico kills 9,000
1986 - 7.5 earthquake in El Salvador kills 1,500
1988 - earthquake in Armenia kills 60,000
1988 - hurricane Gilbert hits several countries killing 341
1988 - earthquake in Soviet Union $20 mil damage
1989 - 7.1 earthquake hits San Francisco kills 63

[azruss]

growing up in the 50s and 60s, where the local town grew from no TV to a massive 3 stations that went off the air at midnight, i see a world of over saturation of news. It gives us the sense that more disasters are happening. My sense is we have a massive media machine bent on getting market share thru sensationalism and contoversy. To make the news in the old days, it had to be something huge or close to home. If you do a little digging you can find a steady stream of disasters throughout written history and even farther back into folklore (Altantis, Noah's ark, etc).