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Old 02-13-2020, 06:28 PM
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Great announcement today - every bush fire in the state of New South Wales is now officially under control - helped by heavy rainfall in the past week.

I'm driving to Melbourne this week-end on the recently re-opened highway and will be traveling through some badly burned areas just south of my home town.
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Old 02-13-2020, 06:40 PM
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Bruce thats good news - i was wondering how things were going
glad your doing better - my prayers have been with you .
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Old 02-13-2020, 06:43 PM
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Great announcement today - every bush fire in the state of New South Wales is now officially under control - helped by heavy rainfall in the past week.

I'm driving to Melbourne this week-end on the recently re-opened highway and will be traveling through some badly burned areas just south of my home town.
That's great news, Bruce. I can't imagine what it must have been like to go through that.

Closest I've ever been was the Oakland/Berkeley fires in California, 1991, and that was scary enough without me and my family ever approaching the personal threat that you've endured.
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Thanks guys, we have a cyclone formed just off our east coast that passed right over Lord Howe Island last night and gave it a battering ... looks like it will swing away further south-east before hitting my area of the coast.
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Great announcement today - every bush fire in the state of New South Wales is now officially under control - helped by heavy rainfall in the past week.

I'm driving to Melbourne this week-end on the recently re-opened highway and will be traveling through some badly burned areas just south of my home town.
Good news overall. It will be a bit disheartening to see at first , but I was amazed how quickly the burned brush by our house (after the High Park fire in Colorado) greened back up. The trees of course are another story .

This was in the week after containment and we allowed back in
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The tropical north is in cyclone season at the moment & that seems to be driving the weather patterns down here the last week or 2 as the tropical lows drift south & are bringing the humid air masses & big rain events with them, particularly along the coast.

That's welcome to continue but I wouldn't be surprised if we get more hot, dry spells between now & early autumn. It's still summertime.

Although the fires may be under control they're not necessarily out. The right conditions could see some flare up again but I'd imagine nothing remotely like what we saw through most of the summer.
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I took these in Tallaganda State Forest (about 60 km east of Canberra) a week ago. The rain had only started a day or so earlier & was pretty light but the forest seemed to be recovering well given it was torched 6 weeks earlier.

In the week since another 200mm (8") of rain has fallen here but it has been warm & sunny much of that time too. I'll be heading up tomorrow to ride with some friends in unburnt areas just south of this. I would expect the place has bloomed in that time.
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I'm glad to read that things are beginning to look up down your way, folks.
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Glad to hear hat this has trial has ended for our Aussie pals.

Storm Ciara was bad down here but many parts of the north got it worse and have been flooded:


We in the south are now awaiting what the gods will throw at us tonight with Storm Dennis.

We live south of a long line of chalk hills which have been soaking up heavy rain and we are warned of a month's rain to fall tonight which will cause the hills to release tones of rainwater in one large surge.

Back in 1994 our old Roman city was almost engulfed apart from millions spent on diverting the river around and into the flood plains just south of us.

Our little development was almost cut off as the water rose all around us with one route out.

Those flood plains now have thousands of houses on them - so we are wondering where the water will go this time.
kinda hoping that those new and largely unoccupied houses will get drownded as most believe that they shouldn't have been built there.
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Been watching the British storms on the news & it sure looks quite catastrophic in areas. Hope things hold up your way OK. Stay safe.
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Spent most of the night listening to the howling of the wind and strange creaks and thumps.

The guttering finally gave way ripping itself apart and crashing down on our porch.

I movd the cars off the drive shortly before 11 p.m last night. Proved to be a good move ... so far.

Red warnings now for South Wales - we are on Amber ... over 300 flood warnings.

it is 7 a.m. here, given up trying to sleep - Winds should drop by 2 p.m.

Windows sound as if they are being sand blasted.

Obviously, we still have power. Dunno when we'll be able to pick up the pieces.

Hoping the local river doesn't over flow, and concerned for Mando Bob, whose house is close to an oft overflowing lake.
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Glad to hear it, Bruce. It's been a devastating fire season down there.
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