Brian & All - I am reading this, I am not particularly concerned and am shortly going to respond to you about meeting up at the airport which is a gracious and welcome offer.
Don On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Brian Hancock <[email protected]>wrote: > G'day Charles, > > > > Thanks for your thoughts, Australia is a big place so I am about 500 miles > from where it has all occurred, however everyone here is saddened by the > huge toll on lives and serious injuries. They are predicting the death toll > to be over 200, with 5000 people homeless and up to 800 houses destroyed, > and the fire is not yet full contained.. > > > > For a large number of Australians it did not come as a surprise, when you > have had the sort of heat wave conditions they had there of ten consecutive > days over 40+C each day, one was nearly 47C) then add this to a drought > which has lasted years, and add a touch of our native gums trees with all > their eucalyptus oils its like a bomb waiting to go off… The really > disheartening thing is that they are pretty sure the fire were deliberately > lit. Every time we have a heat wave there is some idiot who want to see what > happens if they put a match (and perhaps a gallon of gasoline) into a > forest… > > > > We had a minor bushfire in Sydney last Thursday, we also had about 40C > heat, (about 110F) and ultra low humitidy, and they have arrested a 31 years > old man who lit 5 separate fires with accelerant in the National Park only > about 3 miles from where I live. > > > > If Don is reading this, do not be worried about coming to Sydney, its all > good…Temperatures have eased and we even had a few spits of rain today… > > > > Thanks > > Brian > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Charles G. Wolf > *Sent:* Monday, 9 February 2009 3:43 PM > *To:* DataPerfect Users Discussion Group > *Subject:* [Dataperf] Wildfires > > > > With the horrific wildfires in Australia, I'm wondering if Brian Hancock > and any other Australian DP users here are OK. > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax
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