Black Saturday February 7th 2009 Oh fuck it was a bad day. It was so bad. I knew it couldn’t end well. I could smell it wouldn’t end well. I sat up to midnight with 774 radio listening to what was going down. I knew most of it wouldn’t be on air and most of it wasn’t as it turned out. It was so bad. It was so bad. I watched the shopping channel and did my ironing to be useful— one likes to be useful in the middle of a catastrophe. As dawn broke I risked cracking the early…
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