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Feb. 7th, 2009 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccStill waiting to hear what's happening around where my parents are. Rang Mum at about 5.30, they were filling the gutters and she was going to ring me back.
There's now an ember attack warning for the town they live in.
I'm hoping like hell that they're just busy.
Dean's parents are currently good, although they are hosting extra dogs from friends who have been burnt out. Not sure if the friends are staying there too. They've evacuated the nursing home in Dean's town as a precaution, but the fires seem to be some distance away. Kinglake's sounding like it's been hit hard - the radio was reporting houses, sheds and the petrol station had been burned. Yes, this is Australia - we report shed losses. Don't ask.
Wallan had people having to be lifted out by helicopter the fires moved so fast. My ex-housemate's family are from there. I'm hoping they're OK, but I can't get in touch with her to ask.
Wandong was in the line of fire, hoping it's OK by now. Hard to tell from available sources, and I tend to focus more on Gippsland news on the radio. The fire front looks like it may have moved past though.
Cool change is nice, some spitting but no rain. What looks like rain on the radar map over Gippsland is smoke, as I suspected.
Waiting to see if the wind change is going to seriously screw things up.
No one killed as yet - one serious injury.
News footage has quite a few people wearing seriously inappropriate footwear/clothing. You'd think people would know not to be fighting fires in thongs by now.
They're having to ask people not to rubberneck around the fires. Some people are seriously stupid. The first time I heard it on the radio I thought they had to be joking - but then again, people went to Mt St Helens as it was erupting, why would I expect them not to go and see the pretty (bloody enormous and quite scary and quite possibly lethal) fire?
Fires in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne in two places.
A new fire out of Walhalla - dry as buggery up there, gullies galore. Threatening towns mostly to the south.
There is a level of surreality about all this you know. I'm safe and cool and even have power. Meanwhile half the state's on fire. I can smell it, but there's no sirens around here and up until the change came through the streets were dead quiet.
Helicopters going overhead now, probably news crews. Hopefully not Angel of Mercy.
There's now an ember attack warning for the town they live in.
I'm hoping like hell that they're just busy.
Dean's parents are currently good, although they are hosting extra dogs from friends who have been burnt out. Not sure if the friends are staying there too. They've evacuated the nursing home in Dean's town as a precaution, but the fires seem to be some distance away. Kinglake's sounding like it's been hit hard - the radio was reporting houses, sheds and the petrol station had been burned. Yes, this is Australia - we report shed losses. Don't ask.
Wallan had people having to be lifted out by helicopter the fires moved so fast. My ex-housemate's family are from there. I'm hoping they're OK, but I can't get in touch with her to ask.
Wandong was in the line of fire, hoping it's OK by now. Hard to tell from available sources, and I tend to focus more on Gippsland news on the radio. The fire front looks like it may have moved past though.
Cool change is nice, some spitting but no rain. What looks like rain on the radar map over Gippsland is smoke, as I suspected.
Waiting to see if the wind change is going to seriously screw things up.
No one killed as yet - one serious injury.
News footage has quite a few people wearing seriously inappropriate footwear/clothing. You'd think people would know not to be fighting fires in thongs by now.
They're having to ask people not to rubberneck around the fires. Some people are seriously stupid. The first time I heard it on the radio I thought they had to be joking - but then again, people went to Mt St Helens as it was erupting, why would I expect them not to go and see the pretty (bloody enormous and quite scary and quite possibly lethal) fire?
Fires in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne in two places.
A new fire out of Walhalla - dry as buggery up there, gullies galore. Threatening towns mostly to the south.
There is a level of surreality about all this you know. I'm safe and cool and even have power. Meanwhile half the state's on fire. I can smell it, but there's no sirens around here and up until the change came through the streets were dead quiet.
Helicopters going overhead now, probably news crews. Hopefully not Angel of Mercy.
