As you all probably not know, a State of Emergency has been declared across the entire Blue Mountains region because of our annual summertime bushfire festival.
Look at it here.
But in all seriousness, there is bad news and good news
The bad news is that there are currently 59 fires across the region, and 19 of them are currently uncontrollable because of their size/intensity/whatever and some are already approaching the outer fringes of Sydney. Additionally, temperatures are expected to hit 35C today (95F) and the light rain that fell yesterday only worsened conditions because now all our fire trucks are stuck in mid and stuff, so firefighters have been doing it tough for the last week or so. 4
The good news is that we literally do this every summer so we know what to do, though something on this scale hasn't really occured for a while now.
The really good news is that we've rigged up fire-defenses around the shack i.e. boarding up the windows with iron sheets, installing fire-rated sprinkler systems around the immediate vicinity so that nothing short of a volcano eruption can burn the thing and everybody feels confident enough to stay and fight the fire. Of course if it all goes to hell we're getting out of there, so just in case that does happen I'll be away for a few days depending or not if our house gets through the fire or not. Alternatively if the telephone and internet stuff gets cut I won't be able to contact anybody for a few days. Anyway, maybe I won't have to leave hopefully, so this thread may all be pointless.
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10/22/2013, 09:30 PM #4
Go beat the shit out of that fire!
In all seriousness, I hope for the best.
In all seriousness, I hope for the best.
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10/23/2013, 04:09 AM #8
Okay, false alarm. Winds changed two hours ago and the fire is now heading in a different direction. No telling if it'll come back though, so we're still outside waiting.
10/23/2013, 05:10 AM #10
Go up to the fire and punch it in the balls. I'll make a man out of you.
But in all seriousness, hope that wind stays facing the other direction. Keep safe.
But in all seriousness, hope that wind stays facing the other direction. Keep safe.