40? damn .. that's about 104 F hmmm .. this snow is looking better all the time ;)
Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Texidor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Awfully quiet here today .... > Hey... us noisy AUS people have been busy sleepin' > > Not sure about the cold though? Snow? Whassat? :^) > > New South Wales has been burning since Christmas Day... literally!! > About 170/180 properties lost, thousands evacuated, and fortunately no > deaths. There have been over 100 fires burning around the state... > fuelled by near-40 degree days and fast winds. The sky here has been a > smokey orange haze for the last week and a bit. > > We went camping on New Years Day, only to have to return the next day > because the camp site was sweltering in 40 degrees and suffering from > heavy winds that were pulling tents up... coming back we drove in > between two of the fires that had started up that morning, and the winds > were just fanning them quickly out of control. The freeway was covered > in smoke in a few places, and then there was a fire at the top of a > reserve in our main town... we drove past watching the helicopters > swooping down, picking up the water and then dropping it on the flames > (clearly visible from 2 or 3 km's away). > > I think all the fires are now contained, but they are forecasting > another treacherous weekend. There are still approx 80 fires burning. > All the national parks have been closed, except one local one near here. > > And most of these fires have been lit by arsonists. Approx 25 people > have been charged so far, with a majority being teenagers. The youngest > caught was 9. > > As for the fire service, they're bloody legends!!! > > And, bizarely, they had snow on Christmas Day in Thredbo!! In the > middle of SUMMER???? What the??!! > > N ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
