Smoking? Or Smoked out?

Over the past month and a half, at various times, there has been an awful lot of smoke around Melbourne even though the Bush fires are a few hundred kilometers away.

These fires have been very destructive having burnt out over a Million Hectares. However they have in and off themselves proposed no fire danger to Melbourne itself.

However, on certain days when the wind is in our direction, Melbourne is occasionally blanketed with grey smoke. Fortunately it is too far for the hot embers to blow, so there are no spot fires arising from it, but the smoke has been causing some hazard, especially to those with breathing difficulties; and also causing some visibility problems, not to mention the increased humidity.

It has often been said that where there is smoke there is fire. Well it is certainly true that this smoke has fire as its cause. Unfortunately, although separated by some distance from its source, the prevailing winds have sent it to us and it is still causing problems. Certainly it would be worse for us if we had the fires too, but the smoke by itself is troublesome enough.

What about you? You may not be causing the smoke but you may be constantly battling with the drifting smoke of distant fires. Are distant problems enveloping you in their resulting smoke and fallout? Unfortunately, at this distance there is little one can do to extinguish the source. All you can really do, is to take all the necessary precautions you can, and wait it out till either the wind changes again or the fire is finally extinguished.

So if you are going through a rough patch at the moment, do all you can to address the problem, taking all the precautions and necessary changes you can, and simply wait it out.

Change will eventually come, but will you be ready for it?