Aussie Bush Fires
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@Paekakboyz said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA takes a special kind of human to handle that nightmare scenario aye. They are dead set legends.
The issue will be later in the year when the volunteers are exhausted - some of these guys n gals have been going 2 weeks fairly solid. They're not attending their regular jobs and businesses so its hurting the economy as well.
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This thing is huge, especially since the north Sydney fires joined and created a mega wall of 60km forefront last night, and no let up in sight..
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@raznomore said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Again Im nowhere near the actual fire but this stuff is fucken depressing. Not trying to trivialise what the real victims of the fires are going through. However it's 32° and smoke is everywhere. You can not escape it.
Mate I have had a stack of First World Problems over this: pool is layered with dust and soot, cars are filthy, washing can't be hung out etc
But I've got my house, haven't suffered livestock loses due to fire or drought, and I'm not suicidal at the thought it won't end.
Poor bastards in the bush are the ones doing it tough.
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@bayimports said in Aussie Bush Fires:
This thing is huge, especially since the north Sydney fires joined and created a mega wall of 60km forefront last night, and no let up in sight..
It's mental.
Considering there are other areas up the coast of similar size, all these fucking boomers on social media saying "oh we had bad fires before when I was a toddler" can go and get fucked.
The North coast hinterland that burned is temperate rainforest. It has not burned like this before, because it has not been dry enough. 😞
Canadian and US crews arriving at the moment.
Fuck knows what we do when the fire seasons overlap in both hemispheres.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@raznomore said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Again Im nowhere near the actual fire but this stuff is fucken depressing. Not trying to trivialise what the real victims of the fires are going through. However it's 32° and smoke is everywhere. You can not escape it.
Mate I have had a stack of First World Problems over this: pool is layered with dust and soot, cars are filthy, washing can't be hung out etc
But I've got my house, haven't suffered livestock loses due to fire or drought, and I'm not suicidal at the thought it won't end.
Poor bastards in the bush are the ones doing it tough.
I agree my house is covered in ash, feeling like a pack a day smoker without any of the buzz, even the pet are dogs struggling to breathe.. but we have none of the real shit that’s happening, agree Nick anyone who passes this off as “back in my day” can go get fucked.
And if any insurance companies try find loopholes that are unrelated to fire, (like the previously heard BS you’re a NZer excuse, but I will sell you a policy) and don’t pay out on policies that should include fire, I’ll probably lose it too.
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@bayimports said in Aussie Bush Fires:
I agree my house is covered in ash
Car was in the garage all fucking day yesterday.
Backed out this morning, and little bits of grey shit all over the windscreen...
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A Brisbane house that was apparently deliberately set on fire has spread to a near by storage facility and the first container it got to was full of fireworks! What are the bloody odds of that?
It’s a cruel world sometimes. Here all we need is rain and in NZ all they need is for it to stop raining.
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@raznomore said in Aussie Bush Fires:
It’s a cruel world sometimes. Here all we need is rain and in NZ all they need is for it to stop raining.
After the goal posts and new turf go in for my club's new ground next week, I'd like a week of steady rain across the Sydney basin.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
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@booboo said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
I have vague memories of that as a kid, being on a farm in Northwestern NSW at the time. The first of two 3-year droughts we had, though it wasn't quite this bad.
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Oh check this cool shit out - Air Quality monitors in realtime.
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@bayimports said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Bawley point is a great place..hope you and your wife’s intended venue is still standing
Thanks mate, yeah we're still not sure it survived. It's a bit outside of town and the fire looks to have come through the area but all reports suggest very minimal loss of houses/structures.
We'll likely be OK I think, but it's a winery/orchard so I hope for the owners sake it isn't too bad.
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@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@booboo said in Aussie Bush Fires:
@NTA said in Aussie Bush Fires:
Also, this:
Recall back in the early 80s ... reckon it was Jan Feb 83 because Bush Fire Appeal ODI (Martin Crowe break through 63...) ... the sunsets were a brown golden colour and you could look directly at the sun, a big red orb, as it set.
But that was February, late summer.
I have vague memories of that as a kid, being on a farm in Northwestern NSW at the time. The first of two 3-year droughts we had, though it wasn't quite this bad.
Yeah, but we were in the Northern Wairarapa ...