Run to the Water

Christmas turkey in Australia this year was served smoked, if not charred.  In the final days of 2019 the increasingly familiar eerie visions of a day sky turned to night with embers flying in all directions were dished up on the people of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.  Sirens sounded out and residents were told to flee to the water…to the beaches.  Many huddled together in small groups out in the sand, others staged a Dunkirk-style apocalyptic retreat under red skies onto the water in boats.