02-07-2009, 01:02 AM | #46 |
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Did you know that according to the BOM it was 47.9 at Avalon today? You wouldn't think it could get that high.
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I hope you're all ok. Check in and let us know how you're going huh?
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Minor news first. In Adelaide the heatwave is over for now, the southerly change is in, it feels bloody great and the nasty bushfire north of the city is under control. It will reach Melbourne soon.
I was just thinking with relief that we had had a lucky escape from a major fire disaster. Wrong. Quote:
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Though 40 degrees is still very warm for here. We tied the high temperature record with 46 degrees F or so last Saturday. Not as warm this week but still a good 10 degrees above average. I am welcoming it fully.
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Updated information http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...08/2485317.htm.
It is pretty much normal each summer to have scrub and forest burn. It is not unusual to lose sheds, fences, livestock, and maybe a few isolated farmhouses. In this fire we are losing whole towns. This is very rare - not since the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 have we seen the like, although the Canberra fires of 2003 came close. Quote:
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My two nephews who live in Kinglake are safe but the news I have so far is that one of my nephews has lost his house to the fires. I have no word yet on the state of the other house but it is very likely that has gone as well. Almost every house in Kinglake has been burnt.
I am still waiting on news from other people I know living in the district.
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02-07-2009, 05:11 PM | #53 |
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Glad you're ok, Kingswood, thanks for checking in.
Ducks? Alpha?
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02-07-2009, 05:24 PM | #54 |
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I would say "Fuck" is an understatement!
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02-07-2009, 05:55 PM | #55 |
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Present and accounted for.
We are still a little way North of the trouble area. We are having huge issues with asthma sufferers because of the smoke and my parents (who are a bit closer) are on flying ember alert. My friends have lost their beautiful home and valley property at Kinglake, but they are safe and thats the main thing. |
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Glad you're ok Ducks...you too kingswood.
Isn't Alpha in Melb city?
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Alpha is in Mt Evelyn, which is on the eastern edge of Melbourne (37 km from CBD) nestled into the Dandenong ranges. Sounds like a lovely place but could be dodgy in a fire.
I have emailed him via the cellar page, asking him to visit this thread.
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02-07-2009, 07:28 PM | #58 |
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Oh yeah...the Dandenong ranges are beautiful, but you're right. Not too many roads in or out really.
Maybe we should leave some bacon out for him. That might bring him sniffing around.
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02-08-2009, 05:54 AM | #59 |
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Wow. We travelled in and around Marysville last year. It's very pretty country, nice people too. This is really terrible. They're reporting 84 dead, but it's sure to rise.
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At least some of these were the work of arsonists.
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