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Fire in Australia
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:09 pm
by LionX
i know this is none related, but. i just saw in the news that fire distroyed houses near Melbourne. Melbourne is where OObles is from. I just want to discuss how bad it is or if anyone here get caught it it. I just wanted to show my/our concerns and im sorry to hear such bad news. :(
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/fe ... -bushfires
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:28 pm
by J.F.
Wally is there too. He sent me pictures of the fire seen from his house. :D
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:13 pm
by LionX
wow !!!
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:01 pm
by Wally
Yep, My house was 3KMS away from it (And CW, it's my aunties house i'm at)
6:30PM on Saturday Evening
A slight clearing on Saturday Evening, possibly the heat from the fire.
Pretty damn scary.
Re: Fire in Australia
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:33 pm
by Viper8896
LionX wrote:Melbourne is where OObles is from
Is OObles OK as he hasn't replied yet?
Wally4000 wrote:(Pictures) .... Pretty damn scary.
Shit that does look scary, looks so bright. Was your stuff and people OK?
Re: Fire in Australia
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:17 pm
by Wally
Viper8896 wrote:LionX wrote:Melbourne is where OObles is from
Is OObles OK as he hasn't replied yet?
Wally4000 wrote:(Pictures) .... Pretty damn scary.
Shit that does look scary, looks so bright. Was your stuff and people OK?
yes there were numerous deaths in jeeralang but not as many as other areas.
Oobles is in Melbourne, so he should be OK.
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:31 am
by Oobles
Yep. I'm ok. Thankfully not as close as Wally to the fires. I live at the edge of the Dandenong ranges. Close enough to get nervous on high risk fire days, but far enough away from the actual fires for it not to be a problem for me.
Some of the first hand accounts of the fires where really scary. The speed and ferocity of the fires have been incredible. I was up at Marysville for a night a few weeks before the fires; it really was a beautiful little town. They've estimated that 20% of the population of that town were killed in the fires. For such a small town it really is a tragedy.
I'm looking forward to some rain.. although hopefully not as much as they're getting up north in Australia. Bush fires in the south, floods in the north. Gotta love this climate change stuff. I really wonder if we've left the green change and focus on carbon emissions too late? Either way its going to be a rocky road for the next 50 years. For proof, read this
http://tinyurl.com/c6t9pr
Oobles. aka David.
PS I'm on twitter now.