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Feb. 4th, 2003 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccAnother day where the light is golden.
Two in a row in fact.
Suprisingly netball wasn't called off for respiratory reasons. I felt it was a distinct possibility, given that coming down towards the Chandler Highway from Kew I couldn't actually see Heidelberg. This morning 3/4 of the city had disappeared.
The fires in the Alpine regions are still burning, so every time there's a northerly we get the smoke again. This is going to go on for months - my favourite quote so far is from a CFA guy:
"The fires won't go out unless there's a lot of rain... or they reach Bass Strait."
Saturday Dean and I drove the "Yarra Scenic Drive" around the city. Mostly the drive (especially in the northern bits) doesn't so much go along the Yarra as near it (particularly from about Ivanhoe through to just before Warrandyte). Warrandyte is dry. It's also got rather a lot of parkland/bush near it. When we drove up there a couple of months ago I didn't notice this of course - I was too busy looking at the expensive real estate. But now that the fires are on everyone's minds I'm noticing fuel loads, proximity to bush, dryness, pump locations etc.
Even the Yarra Bend park is very dry, and that's practically in the CBD (well give or take a couple of km).
Which reminds me, I have to reduce the fuel loads in the front yard. It'd be just my luck if some loser waiting for the bus at the bus stop in front of my house chucked a cigarette butt into the font yard...
Two in a row in fact.
Suprisingly netball wasn't called off for respiratory reasons. I felt it was a distinct possibility, given that coming down towards the Chandler Highway from Kew I couldn't actually see Heidelberg. This morning 3/4 of the city had disappeared.
The fires in the Alpine regions are still burning, so every time there's a northerly we get the smoke again. This is going to go on for months - my favourite quote so far is from a CFA guy:
"The fires won't go out unless there's a lot of rain... or they reach Bass Strait."
Saturday Dean and I drove the "Yarra Scenic Drive" around the city. Mostly the drive (especially in the northern bits) doesn't so much go along the Yarra as near it (particularly from about Ivanhoe through to just before Warrandyte). Warrandyte is dry. It's also got rather a lot of parkland/bush near it. When we drove up there a couple of months ago I didn't notice this of course - I was too busy looking at the expensive real estate. But now that the fires are on everyone's minds I'm noticing fuel loads, proximity to bush, dryness, pump locations etc.
Even the Yarra Bend park is very dry, and that's practically in the CBD (well give or take a couple of km).
Which reminds me, I have to reduce the fuel loads in the front yard. It'd be just my luck if some loser waiting for the bus at the bus stop in front of my house chucked a cigarette butt into the font yard...
