Go to 14:15 where day turned into night
It was at midday on New Year's Eve 2019 when the skies turned pitchblack for just a few minutes (or was it only seconds?), and then an apocalyptic fireball erupted in the forest across the river which sent burning ambers across to "Riverbend". Moments later every blade of grass and every tree on "Riverbend" was ablaze!
We were too busy packing our survival packs (passports, insurance policies, bank records, tax returns, address book, etc.) to take photos but a more tech-savvy neighbour up the lane took a whole series of video clips and put them on YouTube where I discovered them only now.
I had visited him that same morning, suggesting that he should join us with some other neighbours at a safer place. He had been in our small community since 2007 which seemed to have been long enough for him to exclaim, "I'd rather burn to death than meet any of my neighbours!"
He didn't burn to death then; instead he got killed in a motorcycle accident while on holidays in Thailand three years later - click here.
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
P.S. Paul Parker of Nelligen achieved instant infamy with this outburst:
