Hello everybody!


Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

My main Amiga's (A1200, A3000) are packed in the car with cloths and other items.
I'll put my Linux PC and server in tomorrow along with the BBS machine if conditions change..

A "Watch and Act" means get ready to leave. The Grey area's on the map, are what actually has been burnt.


https://tinyurl.com/app


\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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Hello everybody!

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

My main Amiga's (A1200, A3000) are packed in the car with cloths and other items.
I'll put my Linux PC and server in tomorrow along with the BBS machine if conditions change..

A "Watch and Act" means get ready to leave. The Grey area's on the map, are what actually has been burnt.


http://tinyurl.com/bdfks77m

21:1/195 is a VPS in Melbourne, so will still be online! #0-)


\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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Re: Bushfire
By: Vorlon to All on Thu Feb 22 2024 10:19 pm

Howdy,

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

And here I was thinking I've had a bad day.

Left Darwin at lunch time, only to find they decided to stop in Alice Springs to refuel - because of the weather in Melbourne that they couldnt arrive with sufficient reserves for holding.

Then we get to Alice and its 42 degress (hotter than forecast), too hot to take off with the full weight. Sat in the plane for 2hrs while they figured something out.

They decided to go to Adelaide instead of waiting until 6pm (when it should be cooler) - because had they waited, they would have had to swap crew - and no crew in Alice. (And easier to get crew to Adelaide if they werent there...)

Anyway, fingers cross wind does a 180 - I'd do a rain dance here, but not sure it would help... :(


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Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern
side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

Stay safe! I hope luck improves and things cool down. Wish I could send something more helpful than words.


Chris/akacastor

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On 22 Feb 2024 at 10:19p, Vorlon pondered and said...

Hello everybody!

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).

Eek!

My main Amiga's (A1200, A3000) are packed in the car with cloths and
other items.
I'll put my Linux PC and server in tomorrow along with the BBS machine if conditions change..

A "Watch and Act" means get ready to leave. The Grey area's on the map, are what actually has been burnt.

http://tinyurl.com/bdfks77m

Stay safe and I send best wishes / good vibes that all will go smoothly.

There's been some nasty fires in Christchurch about 5 hours up the road from me but so far that's been about it over here.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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Hello deon!

22 Feb 24 23:31, you wrote to me:

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of
Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center). It might look like a long way
away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

And here I was thinking I've had a bad day.

Left Darwin at lunch time, only to find they decided to stop in Alice Springs to refuel - because of the weather in Melbourne that they
couldnt arrive with sufficient reserves for holding.

[...]

Anyway, fingers cross wind does a 180 - I'd do a rain dance here, but
not sure it would help... :(

Yeah, Thursday was a pretty sh*t day for winds, heat and fires....



Vorlon


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Hello AKAcastor!

25 Feb 24 10:48, you wrote to me:

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern
side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at
Beaufort.

Stay safe! I hope luck improves and things cool down. Wish I could
send something more helpful than words.

Luckly I was in a "Keep Informed" area... and it stayed like that.

There are four basic level's, with each one being worse than the last:

Keep Informed.
Watch & Act (Get ready to leave/pack).
Leave now.
Too Late, bunker down.

About 1am they changed my area to a safe area, not under threat. The fire moved in a North West direction when the change came
through. It was pushing toward Ballarat before then. So in the end we didn't need to leave, but it was better to be ready...

There hase been three bushfires in the region over the past three weeks. Only the curent one is still doing damage.

To the south in the scarsdale area was one last week (Grey area on map), that was also the first time back in the 90's that I
went though the very real experiance of living though a big bushfire. It burnt our back paddock.

This one being very close to home was enough for me to get things packed and be ready to leave....



Vorlon


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Hello Avon!

24 Feb 24 12:21, you wrote to me:

Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of
Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).

Eek!

yeah.. Live through one, and don't want to do another evern if it was a long time ago in the 90's.

A "Watch and Act" means get ready to leave. The Grey area's on
the map, are what actually has been burnt.

http://tinyurl.com/bdfks77m

Stay safe and I send best wishes / good vibes that all will go
smoothly.

Yep we came though without issues. Reports sofar say three houses lost sofar. There will be more though, and farmers sheds etc.

See my other message for what's going on...

There's been some nasty fires in Christchurch about 5 hours up the
road from me but so far that's been about it over here.

You guys don't get the really host days like we do... It was very windy and reached 34-36c (Not F)...



Vorlon


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On 24 Feb 2024 at 12:28p, Vorlon pondered and said...

yeah.. Live through one, and don't want to do another evern if it was a long time ago in the 90's.

Yep one (or none) is enough.

Yep we came though without issues. Reports sofar say three houses lost sofar. There will be more though, and farmers sheds etc.

Good stuff, yes have been keeping a watching/reading brief, glad you're out of the woods for now.

See my other message for what's going on...

There's been some nasty fires in Christchurch about 5 hours up the road from me but so far that's been about it over here.

You guys don't get the really host days like we do... It was very windy and reached 34-36c (Not F)...

We have a few 30+ days here now but to be fair mostly it's mid 20s in summer and cooler in winter like 8-12 Celsius most of the time.. do have the odd snow day and below 0 temps but you can count most on one hand each winter.

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