On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:20 am, Collins Richey observed: > Skippy, eat your heart out! > > While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing > in Denver.
Its humid and and 34C inside the house, the way I feel at the moment I would love to cool down. Primarily because the drugs I am on interfer with my body thermostat so I feel worse than it is. We are as you say seeing the terrible effects of, nil humidity and strong winds, on Sydney as the outer suburbs burn. As of now the danger is increasing and there are some 80-100 fires burning in and around Sydney, some 50% of which have been lits by fire bugs. The number of homes lost are increasing and the last I heard was about 150. This of course has been going since just before Xmas day. Victoria and Queensland have sent firefighters to assist about 75% of all on the frontline are volunteers. I am also sure that you have people in the States who build in wooded areas too. Eucalypts are a real fire hazzard though. > On the coldest day thus far, my central heating furnace has failed. I've > got all the lights on and my computers and the oven for a little residual > warmth. Up from 60 deg F. internal to 65 deg in the past hour. > > On top of all that, it's a white New Year's day. My wife will not allow me to empty the fride of food and sit inside............ -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
