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This is a link post It's Bushfire Season
Melbourne has just had it's hottest day on record and there are 9 bushfires still raging.

The link is what's left of Maryville


EDIT: Here a link to rather spectacular photo gallery of the current fires.

www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/02/06/2484555.htm

Cheers

EDIT: I'm taking on board what a few people have pointed out. My tagline of "cheers" is really inappropriate in the face of this unfolding disaster. When I first posted this link I had no idea just how serious these fires were.

So far, 66 confirmed dead but many, many more to come. Kinglake is just gone. Almost every house destroyed and God knows how many dead. There are images of pile-ups of burnt-out cars as people tried to drive to safety and didn't make it.

Every State in the Commonwealth are sending help to Victoria to help contain the fires. 250 firefighters and vehicles from NSW, 50 from Tassie, water dropping aircraft from South Australia, another contingent of firefighters from Queensland. Northern Territories are sending forensic personnel and far away Western Australia have offered to send whatever we need.
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Im afraid to look at Kinglake :(

(I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:22, Reply)
This is a normal post No Video From Kinglake
www.abc.net.au/news/audio/2009/02/08/2485286.htm

But here's an audio interview from Kinglake. Doesn't sound too good.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Just when I thought you signing all your posts with "cheers" couldn't get less appropriate I see this message.

(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post After
Edit: After the news tonight I agree with you mate.

the last couple of days in Victoria - what else is there to do but drink?

But I really feel for those poor bastards who've lost everything. I heard of one report of a farmer who was trying to move his stock to safer ground. He said:

"I had to leave when the cattle started bursting into flames"


So I think that "cheers" isn't necessarily inappropriate - it's raising a metaphorical glass for the people we've lost and the lucky survivors. And, most of all, in thanks for the firemen and women who've been working themselves to death for other people.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I know that you're new to this country so I won't patronise you
honestly though, this happens every 5 years or so. This is a particularly nasty heatwave but it's nothing new to anyone who has lived here for a while.

My family moved to Tassie after the family home burned down in '87. Almost everyone I know has lost something or someone in a bushfire at one point or another. It's a big part of the nation we live in.

I don't even know where I was going with this, I have two fans on me any my feet are in a tub of water.
 (I helped save b3ta! gronkpan, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Patronise Away - I Don't Mind
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Coming from England, I'm just astounded at the sheer size and scale of the fires - and the ferocity.

And the current heatwave floored me a bit. I just couldn't go outside - my eyeballs started to shrivel. Luckily, we bought two portable aircon units when this started. They work OK. The big one kept the main room at around 34 when the temperature outside was 46. The little one keeps my computer room at about 29. Hot, but not unbearable.

But you're right - it's something I'll eventually get used to. Both the heat and the bushfires. It's a small price to pay for living in Oz. There's loads of things I just love about this country.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:38, Reply)
This is a normal post :(
Hope the worst is over now and the change helps them put out the fires.
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 1:03, Reply)
This is a normal post The Change
hit Melbourne at about 6 last night. Dropped 15 degrees in ten minutes. Now, it's about 20 degrees outside whereas yesterday it was 46.

At least the cooler weather will mean the firemen and volunteers fighting the fire won't be dropping with heat exhaustion.

Two more things I'd like to add. The radio have just issued an appeal asking "Fire Tourists" to stop trying to get into the danger areas so they can watch the fires. - WTF?

And..

There are reports of fucking arsonists trying to relight the fires in areas where the fires are under control. If I had my way, I'd stake the arsonists out in front of the path of the fire and let 'em fry..

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 1:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Dude
Why do you always end your posts with with cheers, it seems a little weird
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 1:29, Reply)
This is a normal post It's
my tagline.

Some people have catch-phrases, I have my tagline.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 1:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Cool :)

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 1:37, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah there are some serious nobends that come out in fire season
Its so hard to catch these pricks though, fire usually takes care of the evidence.
 (I helped save b3ta! lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:19, Reply)
This is a normal post More than half of all bushfires are deliberately lit.

(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:23, Reply)
This is a normal post
If you have some free time, its worth listening to this radio program about Black Tuesday in Tasmania Feb 7 1967

www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2007/1835380.htm
 (I helped save b3ta! enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 7:27, Reply)