OT: Oz Bushfires

[Andrew]

Aww.. summertime. Summertime is when the arsonists go to work around these parts. Is it arson that started the fires down under? I hope not.

No - lightning strkes.

[Andrew]

You are goign to have to quite calling it brush and call it what is is - BUSHfire

And I agree about the smoke....right now I feel like I'm in LA mid-August

lol- they call them brush fires here in FL when they happen too. Nasty stuff!! Glad things sound like they are safe where you are, hope it stays that way.

No brush here - this IS THE home of native BUSHland....the fires burn so fast and strong cause the undergrowth is so dense and the Eucalyptus trees are highly flammable

[Melissa]

You are goign to have to quite calling it brush and call it what is is - BUSHfire

And I agree about the smoke....right now I feel like I'm in LA mid-August

lol- they call them brush fires here in FL when they happen too. Nasty stuff!! Glad things sound like they are safe where you are, hope it stays that way.

No brush here - this IS THE home of native BUSHland....the fires burn so fast and strong cause the undergrowth is so dense and the Eucalyptus trees are highly flammable

Yikes

[Crazie Scarab]

Aww.. summertime. Summertime is when the arsonists go to work around these parts. Is it arson that started the fires down under? I hope not.

No - lightning strkes.

That happens here, too. However, not as often as arson strikes.

[Andrew]

You are goign to have to quite calling it brush and call it what is is - BUSHfire

And I agree about the smoke....right now I feel like I'm in LA mid-August

lol- they call them brush fires here in FL when they happen too. Nasty stuff!! Glad things sound like they are safe where you are, hope it stays that way.

No brush here - this IS THE home of native BUSHland....the fires burn so fast and strong cause the undergrowth is so dense and the Eucalyptus trees are highly flammable

Yikes

Yep, the oil in the leaves is highly flammable, not to mention the trees themselves dry out in times of drought. Dry leaves and flammable oil....great mix!! And 90% of the country's busland is covered in these trees.
Look awesome (looking straight out my window), smell great, burn like a %$@#(*!!!!

[Blueskies]

dang!! ...My rain dance didn't take??........I'm gonna spin some new tunes and dance up a jig for ya Andrew....if all's in favor with the rain god...it might take this time!!

and get them koala's to eatin' faster!

[Melissa]

lol- I was going to say the same thing about the koala's...start eating, you fluffy little boogers! lol

[Just Mindy]

How's everything going there, Andrew? Any better yet?

[Andrew]

Not so good over the weekend - 4 houses lost here in Tassie and 13 in Victoria.

But a quiet and cooler few days is helping, but it turns around again tomorrow with a warming trend again, so the end of the week could be hazardous again for the next towns in the firing line!

[Clasicrockldy]

Not so good over the weekend - 4 houses lost here in Tassie and 13 in Victoria.

But a quiet and cooler few days is helping, but it turns around again tomorrow with a warming trend again, so the end of the week could be hazardous again for the next towns in the firing line!

Damn Andrew. Sorry to hear of your fellow Aussies losing their homes.

I wish I could send out the damn freezing temps we have been having down there to OZ........

[Melissa]

Not so good over the weekend - 4 houses lost here in Tassie and 13 in Victoria.

But a quiet and cooler few days is helping, but it turns around again tomorrow with a warming trend again, so the end of the week could be hazardous again for the next towns in the firing line!

Yikes
Stay safe Andrew!

[Playitloudforme]

Yikes man. I can relate a bit, having had to evacuate due to brush fires before. We had a wood shingle roof too, very scary when the whole street went Orange....

Hoping all calms down soon for you.