[MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread OK Don
Hendrick and family, are the fires near our abode? I see news reports ranging from 14 to 86 killed so far. -- OK Don W124 Diesels Ubuntu 8.10 KD5NRO -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
Thanks for your thoughts Don but we are well away from the fires.this time. We had a few bad days with heat, low humidity and a bit of wind but thankfully no major fires broke out. However it is not a matter if we get a bad fire but when. Where we live is semi suburban and across the

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:46:26 +1030 Hendrik Fay heni...@ozemail.com.au wrote: If you want you can google earth or map deneland drive, hawthorndene SA. If you are clever enough you can probably work out which house I live in. Hendrik My guess would be the house on the south side of the

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:00:22 -0700 Craig McCluskey diese...@cnsp.com wrote: My guess would be the house on the south side of the road nearest Myrtle, but I'm probably not clever enough. Using Google's street view, I see a silver Benz in front of a house on the north side of the road just west

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
I was looking at my driveway the other day on Google street view, and this old Gullah guy who lives up the road was on his bicycle right in front of my driveway. I saw him this aft as I was pulling out of the driveway, and it made me remember he is immortalized in Google, not that he would

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
It's actually thistle green and yeah must have been getting close to hard refuse collection. I put out an old air conditioner and that was gone in 2 hours, although I did pretty well last year, found a 5 burner BBQ with hood and a plastic basketball hoop for my son. Although I had to rebuild

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
We may get one or two light sprinklings on top of Mount Lofty in a year but no, we don't get snow as such. We don't even get rain anymore. Ozland does have snowfields but you lot would laugh at them. Hendrik Craig McCluskey wrote: On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:46:26 +1030 Hendrik Fay

Re: [MBZ] OT: Oz fires

2009-02-08 Thread Archer
My grandson spent a semester on a college exchange program and he loved Australia. Worked for a Rugby team through arrangement with the university. He sky-dived, bungee jumped, scuba dived off the Great Barrier Reef, and sailed off a mountain with a Rogallo wing. A friends daughter is