01-11-2010, 05:55 AM
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Sorry about the title - me trying to be clever!
Today the whole of metropolitan Adelaide (and the rest of South Australia) was under a orange/red alert for bushfires. Being Suburban, I didn't think too much of it, until I looked out the window and saw smoke billowing over the house - needless to say I nearly had a heart attack.
We had just-in-case bags packed, so we grabbed those, chased the kittens around the house, got them into crates and got out. A lovely lady offered us a lift into town, as I don't have a car.
So that left us safe, but in 43oC heat with two kittens in boxes. While waiting outside a shopping centre for hubby to collect us, the started panting, so we brought them inside the centre, despite the rules, where it was cool. We then got on to the shelter where I got them and they were willing to take them until the fire danger is past, so into a taxi - hubby was stuck in traffic, to the shelter.
So now that they're safe, house is safe (still highrisk over night, so we've left kittens overnight in the shelter) but I am wondering what the effect of all this will be on the kittens - Magpie has just got over the bacterial infection he had along with diahorrea, Raven had a virus, which didn't need treatment, according to the vet. They've cost us a fortune in vets bills, which is fine, they needed it. So am I gonna be back to the start again? They we're settling in so well.
Either way, it was the right thing to do, evacuating them - when we returned to the house, it was full of soot and three plants which were alive and well this morning, were crispy and dead - I guess from the smoke and soot and heat. It wasn't a pleasant place to be.
Today the whole of metropolitan Adelaide (and the rest of South Australia) was under a orange/red alert for bushfires. Being Suburban, I didn't think too much of it, until I looked out the window and saw smoke billowing over the house - needless to say I nearly had a heart attack.
We had just-in-case bags packed, so we grabbed those, chased the kittens around the house, got them into crates and got out. A lovely lady offered us a lift into town, as I don't have a car.
So that left us safe, but in 43oC heat with two kittens in boxes. While waiting outside a shopping centre for hubby to collect us, the started panting, so we brought them inside the centre, despite the rules, where it was cool. We then got on to the shelter where I got them and they were willing to take them until the fire danger is past, so into a taxi - hubby was stuck in traffic, to the shelter.
So now that they're safe, house is safe (still highrisk over night, so we've left kittens overnight in the shelter) but I am wondering what the effect of all this will be on the kittens - Magpie has just got over the bacterial infection he had along with diahorrea, Raven had a virus, which didn't need treatment, according to the vet. They've cost us a fortune in vets bills, which is fine, they needed it. So am I gonna be back to the start again? They we're settling in so well.
Either way, it was the right thing to do, evacuating them - when we returned to the house, it was full of soot and three plants which were alive and well this morning, were crispy and dead - I guess from the smoke and soot and heat. It wasn't a pleasant place to be.