Jesus Christ Victoria...

I have no idea what to say.

108 people...

Footage of the fire is out of this world hellish. The coverage is just gut wrenching considering two journalists got caught in it so it's personal for both news channels I normally watch. The channel nine veteran didn't make it, but the channel seven journalist's wife made it (they kept playing this gut wrenching mobile phone 'interview' with him trying to get through the road blocks to where his wife was trapped in the middle of the inferno - she'd just rung him 'screaming'...*shudders*). There were so many towns that got swamped from all angles because of those fierce hot winds making the fire jump all over the place and change directions. There was nowhere to run and no warning. I knew it would be far worse than Ash Wednesday because they didn't have access to a lot of those swamped towns and the body count was already at 50 yesterday. But 108 and still counting???

*shudders*

What a horrible task: going from car to burned out car, house to burned down house looking for bodies and trying to figure out who is missing.

I'll never forget images of those burned out pile ups. All those people whose cars got swamped on the road, whole families wiped out as they tried to outrun the fire. What a horrible way to die.