Greek brush fire.....

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[Dream Girl]

1. Brush fire? More like a conflagration

[marked50]

2. Like the ferry scene from the "War of the Worlds" re-make.-n/t

[Hekate]

3. My only experience with Greece convinced me it's much like California's chaparral. That's wildfire...

About 20 years ago I took a tour to Crete, and it was incredible. Due to some problems I ended up traveling 24 hours from Santa Barbara Airport to Athens. I looked out the taxi windows and saw dry hills, jacarandas, olive trees, other vegetation imported to and thriving on the Central Coast’s “Mediterranean climate” — due to my exhaustion and disorientation, it was surreal at first.

I am so sorry the Greeks are experiencing this. I just assume they, too, are living with drought. Calling fires of this magnitude “brushfires” minimizes the impact.

[crickets]

4. Poor Greece is taking it on the chin right now.

I spent some time there in college, and it's a beautiful country. The people are lovely, the food is amazing, and of course the cultural sites take your breath away. It's so sad to see this happening. Horrific.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/07/apocalyptic-scenes-hit-greece-as-athens-besieged-by-fire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/07/uk-sends-firefighters-to-greece-to-help-the-battle-against-wildfires

[Trueblue1968]

5. we are all gonna die