since reading this article, I am feeling better. Thank you Ivo. It is strange feeling being in agreement with you.  I was wondering what was bugging me about the disaster. It was this business of celebrating and thanking a deity for a pretty rainbow over Knysna when there had been no rain, and fires are still burning all around and in the nature reserve. The tree roots are on fire and the fires are slow, but still deadly. You cant get to them to put them out and the forest has been low priority during this disaster. Its people and property first,- environment last. That's how it is in fire disasters and also in normal life, and probably why we are all burned now. Alien vegetation, slow burning fires- left unattended in forest from other fires in past- all got us where we are today. Oh and also social problems- the income gap here is enormous- that could be why we have young children lighting fires- as they did in December last year- just for the fun of it.