First day of 'Catastrophic' fire warning across Greater Sydney area. Nobody quite knows what that means, but there's a lot of anxiety about it. It's hot and dry, and with gusty winds, it wouldn't take much for fires to start everywhere.
A lot of schools that border on bushland have opted to close down for the day. Some high schools, some primary. A think a lot of kids who otherwise might have gone to school are being kept home today. Understandably. Trying to evacuate a class or school full of emotional kids would be completely hellish, and far beyond the province of a teacher.
I did some prep: cleaned up yard: tossed out wood scraps, raked and mulched leaves, checked the gutters, set buckets of water all over the garden, ready to put out spot fires if it comes to that.
Nothing might happen. But if something does, better to be prepared, right?
It made me think. We do all this prep for a fire that may or may not turn up; how much more prep should we be doing for a judgement that we hold is definitely coming? Maybe not a bunker mindset, but certainly one that's prepared for whatever is coming.
