Sydney fire...
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I have heard the fire has caused a lot of damage. :( I hope fighters control it soon. Ammar There is a difference in knowing the path and walking the path.
G'day Ammar, I'm sitting in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with fires burning all around the place. It's very dry here at the moment and has been several years ('94) since the fires have been through so spot fires are starting very easily all over the place. This is causing the fire trucks to get spread fairly thinly around the streets and so several homes have been lost. :(( We've been watching helicopters water bombing near homes almost non stop for the past two days. It's incredible to watch the pilots battling the smoke and turbulance with a ton of water swinging 50 foot below. The valley we sat upon this afternoon has high voltage lines across which literally disappeared in the smoke at times, and listening to the choppers coming up the valley. . . . :eek: The weather has cooled significantly this evening so I expect a lot of the trouble spots will be under control by tommorrow. :-D Regards, Robert. sonork ID: 100.9940
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G'day Ammar, I'm sitting in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with fires burning all around the place. It's very dry here at the moment and has been several years ('94) since the fires have been through so spot fires are starting very easily all over the place. This is causing the fire trucks to get spread fairly thinly around the streets and so several homes have been lost. :(( We've been watching helicopters water bombing near homes almost non stop for the past two days. It's incredible to watch the pilots battling the smoke and turbulance with a ton of water swinging 50 foot below. The valley we sat upon this afternoon has high voltage lines across which literally disappeared in the smoke at times, and listening to the choppers coming up the valley. . . . :eek: The weather has cooled significantly this evening so I expect a lot of the trouble spots will be under control by tommorrow. :-D Regards, Robert. sonork ID: 100.9940
Hey Robert, A bunch of my friends from Sydney are down for Christmas and it sounds like things are pretty grim there at the moment. We had fires go through Canberra on Christmas Day and they only reopened the main roads connecting the north and south of Canberra this afternoon. My favourite mountain biking terrain is one big ash pan :( - but at least no one has been killed. cheers, Chris Maunder
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G'day Ammar, I'm sitting in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with fires burning all around the place. It's very dry here at the moment and has been several years ('94) since the fires have been through so spot fires are starting very easily all over the place. This is causing the fire trucks to get spread fairly thinly around the streets and so several homes have been lost. :(( We've been watching helicopters water bombing near homes almost non stop for the past two days. It's incredible to watch the pilots battling the smoke and turbulance with a ton of water swinging 50 foot below. The valley we sat upon this afternoon has high voltage lines across which literally disappeared in the smoke at times, and listening to the choppers coming up the valley. . . . :eek: The weather has cooled significantly this evening so I expect a lot of the trouble spots will be under control by tommorrow. :-D Regards, Robert. sonork ID: 100.9940
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Hmm, sounds like the fires that sweep through California once every 10 years. The brush gets too thick and..... Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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Hey Robert, A bunch of my friends from Sydney are down for Christmas and it sounds like things are pretty grim there at the moment. We had fires go through Canberra on Christmas Day and they only reopened the main roads connecting the north and south of Canberra this afternoon. My favourite mountain biking terrain is one big ash pan :( - but at least no one has been killed. cheers, Chris Maunder
Hi Chris, It's actually worked pretty well for me. I was prescribed to head down to Canberra on Boxing day to visit the in-laws but due to the fires and all.....;) Things have cooled down a lot here this evening and winds are now only slight. However the smoke has really settled in the basin and with the fires set to move slowly through the gullys here for several days this may be slow to improve. The smoke from fire fronts was showing up on the sydney rain-radar allowing one to see the extent of the fires quite effectively. Rgs, Robert. sonork ID: 100.9940
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Hmm, sounds like the fires that sweep through California once every 10 years. The brush gets too thick and..... Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
I remember the california fires a few years back. All these houses on ridges in the middle of thick eucalypt forests. I think everyone in Australia who looked at the pictures of the fires sweeping through was thinking "you built your houses where??" Even so, there are still too many houses nestled in amongst thick eucaplypt forest down here. Nasty business. My Uncle had a place down near Lorne in Victoria when the Ash Wednesday fires went through in '83. The fire went through so fast that the house didn't burn, it exploded (because of the sudden change in air pressure). All that was left was powdery brick, pools of molten glass and intact beads of silicone (the only thing to remain untouched!). He rebuilt the house and placed a metal sculpture on the wall of the new place. It was a melted puddle of metal and wires around 1/2 inch thick and 2 feet long. We asked him what it was and he said "my chainsaw". cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris, It's actually worked pretty well for me. I was prescribed to head down to Canberra on Boxing day to visit the in-laws but due to the fires and all.....;) Things have cooled down a lot here this evening and winds are now only slight. However the smoke has really settled in the basin and with the fires set to move slowly through the gullys here for several days this may be slow to improve. The smoke from fire fronts was showing up on the sydney rain-radar allowing one to see the extent of the fires quite effectively. Rgs, Robert. sonork ID: 100.9940
I was thinking the same thing: if the winds subside and the fires are still going and the heat is still up in the mid 30's then it's going to be a smelly, horrible place till the rains come. Robert Dickenson wrote: I was prescribed to head down to Canberra on Boxing day to visit the in-laws but due to the fires and all..... That's just too bad, eh? ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hmm, sounds like the fires that sweep through California once every 10 years. The brush gets too thick and..... Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
Hmm, sounds like the fires that sweep through California once every 10 years. The brush gets too thick and..... some little shit runs around playing with matches.... sonork ID: 100.9940
