Southern fires??

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 11:38 am

Just wondering how you guys in the southern states are fairing with the heat and the fires?
I hope we don't see any more deaths.
The 2003 fires got way too close for us here - 100m from the house on 4 sides.
I hope you fair well.....

Silk

goatsby · Post by **goatsby** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 12:54 pm

Well its smoky in horsham even though the Grampians fire is 50kms away.

Im just staying right away, leave the firefighting for the experts Im not going to get in their way. Its a shame about the fire as the Grampians are a beautiful spot been fishing camping and bushwallking there plenty of times. Also the stock losses are bad.

Kippo · Post by **Kippo** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 1:19 pm

I'm down in Rowville in South East Vic and can't see any smoke here, but when we had the big bush fires up in Mount Dandenong about 6 years ago the haze was rediculous. Can't imagine what it is like up near the Grampians.

goatsby · Post by **goatsby** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 1:47 pm

well its 2.30 in the arvo and it feels like sunset, i have the light on in the room to see, the sun is pink and the sky is yellow.

The fire has taken a turn for the worse now Laharum and brimpaen have to do their fire plans I have friends there. Luckily its passed Halls Gap but is now around Lake Wartook.

But in Stawell they have blue skies!!

JaCk_SpArRoW · Post by **JaCk_SpArRoW** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 1:51 pm

goatsby wrote:well its 2.30 in the arvo and it feels like sunset, i have the light on in the room to see, the sun is pink and the sky is yellow.

The fire has taken a turn for the worse now Laharum and brimpaen have to do their fire plans I have friends there. Luckily its passed Halls Gap but is now around Lake Wartook.

But in Stawell they have blue skies!!

I know exactly how you feel goat...that was the same when we had the January fires in canberra....2pm was like 2am...so dark & couldnt breathe!...plus me being a Volunteer fire fighter in the thick of it all didnt help with the breathing & the seeing!

dags64 · Post by **dags64** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 1:55 pm

fingers crossed everyone

we had some fires on Kangaroo Island on the weekend, a change of wind pushed all the smoke over Adelaide and into the Hills
very hazy and dark, weird

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 3:50 pm

They're saying Thurday will be the tester. Bad conditions on the way.
I hope the forecasters are wrong.
They have been know to be.
Praying for rain.
Best of luck guys.....

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Tuesday Jan 24, 2006 10:39 pm

Fires,

Nothing worse.

Good Luck Guys

Dogger

Kippo · Post by **Kippo** » Wednesday Jan 25, 2006 7:25 am

The haze and smell is just starting to come across south-east vic now (Ferntree Gully, Lysterfield).

anti-fsck · Post by **anti-fsck** » Wednesday Jan 25, 2006 10:33 pm

I live right on the western lip of the Latrobe Valley, where the lowest entry point to the valley is. When the wind swings around to the east, the smoke from the Erica fires is funnelled right through where we live. We had to take the batteries out of the smoke alarms at the weekend because the smoke from the fire control lines was so thick inside the house it was setting them off. I can stand at the top of the driveway and see the fire front about 15km away. All we can do is close up the house and run the air con to keep the smoke out, more so for the baby's sake.

Not looking forward to tomorrow's high temps and winds. We haven't had any ash fall yet, unlike the Tolmie fires last year where everything was covered in ash.

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Wednesday Jan 25, 2006 10:37 pm

got family in Vic, keep your head down, good luck.
yard.

Kippo · Post by **Kippo** » Monday Jan 30, 2006 7:53 pm

Thank god the rains come. Looks like it has calmed the situation down a lot. Lets hope thats all the fires we have for this summer, and for the next summers to come.

Kippo.

silkworm · Post by **silkworm** » Tuesday Jan 31, 2006 7:33 am

bless those rains!