Re: [Brin-l] Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-17 Thread Ray Ludenia
On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 12/02/2009, at 7:48 AM, Jo Anne wrote: BTW, Ray and Maree went back to Australia on Feb. 4. They live S.E. Of Melbourne. I haven't heard from them and I hope they are OK. Does anyone know I haven't spoken to them, but I don't think

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-13 Thread Jo Anne
Doug -- No worries. And I hope you're pronouncing Willamette right. Every time we have guests from out of the area we have a pronunciation session on wil-LAM-et, instead of the other way they usually want to pronounce it =+)) Amities, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-12 Thread Charlie Bell
On 12/02/2009, at 7:48 AM, Jo Anne wrote: BTW, Ray and Maree went back to Australia on Feb. 4. They live S.E. Of Melbourne. I haven't heard from them and I hope they are OK. Does anyone know I haven't spoken to them, but I don't think there were any fires around them - the

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-12 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jo Anne evens...@hevanet.com wrote: Doug -- what a fascinating account! I think your brother-in-law ought to write a book. So few of us ever experience that kind of thing. Freight trains certainly get a bad rap in the noise department. The Engineer's

Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-11 Thread Jo Anne
Doug -- what a fascinating account! I think your brother-in-law ought to write a book. So few of us ever experience that kind of thing. Freight trains certainly get a bad rap in the noise department. The Engineer's brother and his gf were in the path of Ike. They were in the eye for somewhere

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:17 AM, Rceeberger wrote: There are towns in southern Australia where they won't let people back in, due to the numbers of bodies still lying in the streets. They have to let the forensics teams in first. These towns are all quite rural, and there is just no way any

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Rob asked: Anyone know of a good way an American can be helpful? Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is logistics, not money. Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among the richest of Brazil, probable comparable with any european country in terms

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:50 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: There were campaings to collect clothes, water, food, etc - and all the things that were donated were either stolen or incinerated, as the problem was not that they didn't have them, but that these goods couldn't get there - because the

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Rob asked: Anyone know of a good way an American can be helpful? Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is logistics, not money. Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among the richest of

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-10 Thread Doug Pensinger
Charlie wrote: Or give something to your local volunteer fire service. In a few months, it'll be the northern hemisphere on fire. So true. There were two fires in Santa Cruz county last June which, prior to that, had been known as asbestos county because of the lack of wildfires over the

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-09 Thread John Garcia
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM, sendai sen...@iicx.net wrote: Euan Ritchie wrote: It was almost a perfect storm for fire conditions. I'm 1,500 miles downwind and was reminded of the end to The Sheep Look Up last night when I thought I could smell faint burning on the air. I felt

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-09 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 8:54 AM, John Garcia wrote: New York Times reports 173 dead, hundreds homeless, and that the fire may have been set. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10australia.html It wasn't just a fire. It was a number of fires across several hundred kilometres.

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-09 Thread Rceeberger
On 2/9/2009 3:54:44 PM, John Garcia (john...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:23 PM, sendai sen...@iicx.net wrote: Euan Ritchie wrote: It was almost a perfect storm for fire conditions. I'm 1,500 miles downwind and was reminded of the end to The Sheep Look Up last

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-09 Thread sendai
Rceeberger wrote: Australia always stands with and by us though all sorts of ordeals. Anyone know of a good way an American can be helpful? xponent Recipricocity Maru rob The Australian Red Cross would likely be your best bet:

Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Rceeberger
Repeating the call-out on the Culture list. Are our Aussie friends doing OK? We worry for you. xponent Precipice Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Rceeberger rceeber...@comcast.net wrote: Repeating the call-out on the Culture list. Are our Aussie friends doing OK? We worry for you. Yeah... 96 dead. Sounding too much like the Oakland Hills firestorm times 10. Already four times as many killed. Very

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Charlie Bell
On 09/02/2009, at 4:35 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Rceeberger rceeber...@comcast.net wrote: Repeating the call-out on the Culture list. Are our Aussie friends doing OK? We worry for you. Yeah... 96 dead. Sounding too much like the Oakland Hills firestorm

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Euan Ritchie
It was almost a perfect storm for fire conditions. I'm 1,500 miles downwind and was reminded of the end to The Sheep Look Up last night when I thought I could smell faint burning on the air. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Wayne Eddy
From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Rceeberger rceeber...@comcast.net wrote: Repeating the call-out on the Culture list. Are our Aussie friends doing OK? We worry for you. Yeah... 96 dead. Sounding too much like the Oakland Hills firestorm times 10.

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 8, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Repeating the call-out on the Culture list. Are our Aussie friends doing OK? We worry for you. Yeah... 96 dead. Sounding too much like the Oakland Hills firestorm times 10. Already four times as many killed. Very scary. Nick When

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-08 Thread sendai
Euan Ritchie wrote: It was almost a perfect storm for fire conditions. I'm 1,500 miles downwind and was reminded of the end to The Sheep Look Up last night when I thought I could smell faint burning on the air. I felt the same... I woke at ~2am, and I smelt burning outside. I