Ozhorse
Well-known member
Ah, so I am not the only one who is cynical! Big tick on the sociology degree.
I was also annoyed about media blabbing on about not having federal employees to report to rather than about the story of the farmers and cattle and the storm itself. It is the neighbours and other private citizens who are going to help out in a disaster, not the government.
And yes, the story is about the connection between a farmer and his stock. They are going to get tended to before anything else. As if one is even going to accurately know what stock losses are in a disaster like that until weeks later, or even months.
In those horrible photos I can see there are still a few (very few) live cattle stuck in those piles of dead ones that need saving ASAP. No time for having a wettie (Australian expression - means crying), just got to go and look after the welfare of the ones you have alive, everything else including yourself later. I can see the sorrow is in the pride the owners would have had in their quality cattle that were just dead in huge piles.
The financial crisis is going to happen up to a year later. It is as if the media want to think the government is important in a crisis like that, when it really is not in the early phases. I bet it is the locals getting together that gets things sorted out.
We had a bushfire burn out 2500 of 2700 acres last Jan with all the crisis you can imagine that involved, and spending days hunting down burnt black sheep in a burnt black landscape with the fires still going for two weeks after and 45 km of fencing burnt out. Just because stock are dead in a big pile does not mean there are not live ones in there and you have to go through he pile to deal with those. I could not have worked out how many stock we lost until we could muster and count, which was when we had fences again which was about 6 months later; only thanks to grey nomad (retired caravaners) volunteers who built fences for us. I have such an enormous debt to so many people I cant pay back. Bit of a strange feeling.
I was also annoyed about media blabbing on about not having federal employees to report to rather than about the story of the farmers and cattle and the storm itself. It is the neighbours and other private citizens who are going to help out in a disaster, not the government.
And yes, the story is about the connection between a farmer and his stock. They are going to get tended to before anything else. As if one is even going to accurately know what stock losses are in a disaster like that until weeks later, or even months.
In those horrible photos I can see there are still a few (very few) live cattle stuck in those piles of dead ones that need saving ASAP. No time for having a wettie (Australian expression - means crying), just got to go and look after the welfare of the ones you have alive, everything else including yourself later. I can see the sorrow is in the pride the owners would have had in their quality cattle that were just dead in huge piles.
The financial crisis is going to happen up to a year later. It is as if the media want to think the government is important in a crisis like that, when it really is not in the early phases. I bet it is the locals getting together that gets things sorted out.
We had a bushfire burn out 2500 of 2700 acres last Jan with all the crisis you can imagine that involved, and spending days hunting down burnt black sheep in a burnt black landscape with the fires still going for two weeks after and 45 km of fencing burnt out. Just because stock are dead in a big pile does not mean there are not live ones in there and you have to go through he pile to deal with those. I could not have worked out how many stock we lost until we could muster and count, which was when we had fences again which was about 6 months later; only thanks to grey nomad (retired caravaners) volunteers who built fences for us. I have such an enormous debt to so many people I cant pay back. Bit of a strange feeling.
