Australia Fires Part 2

[Molalla1]

You left out this part

Aside from that, your comment was spot on.

Hopefully the weather will continue to cooperate, and that the firefighters go home safely.

I hope so also . . . I have went through a wild fire around my vacation place in CA . Insurance companies are getting very discrete about their customers . . .

 

[Wagtail]

I haven't seen support from the UK, Elizabeth II reigns as Queen of Australia and I haven't seen any action on these fires by her..

I'm not having a go at you radios1... I just saw this on FB regarding 'support' from the UK. The bloke is on exchange from the RN:

Royal Navy in daring mission to deliver beer to thirsty Australians stranded by bushfires

 

[John148]

I don't envy those in Victoria and Southern NSW the heavy smoke pollution, hopefully the forecast rain will clear it. We had it in southern Queensland late last year and it hospitalised quite a few people. The impact of the fires across the country has been devastating on people, wildlife and property. We did a roadtrip into Northern NSW after Xmas and we estimated that at least 100 kilometres of bushland on both sides of the two highways we used were burnt out as far as the eye could see. Today we are waiting for some promised rain our total rainfall for 2019 was 580mm below 2018 and over the past three years it has fallen just over 1,000mm. We have lost a substantial number of trees on our place and the surrounding hills which in a normal summer would have shimmering green eucalypts are now very brown. We attended a fire in a nearby national park just before Xmas , it had been burning for a week and was started by a lightning strike, it was scary at night as the eucalypts would literally explode and collapse. In Queensland we don't normally get fires as severe as the southern states due to higher humidity and dew point and wetter fuels on a few of our worst fire days we have had humidity below 10% and negative dew points which normally would be unheard of in sub-tropical Queensland.

 

[ovrszd]

Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest positive effect.

I've ridden hundreds of hours in Helicopters. I thank God for them. They've hauled me into some crappy places. They've hauled me out of some crappy places. Every time I hear a Helicopter I go outside and look for it. The ole Huey started this love affair.

Thanks to the UK for their contributions!!!!

 

[ovrszd]

I don't envy those in Victoria and Southern NSW the heavy smoke pollution, hopefully the forecast rain will clear it. We had it in southern Queensland late last year and it hospitalised quite a few people. The impact of the fires across the country has been devastating on people, wildlife and property. We did a roadtrip into Northern NSW after Xmas and we estimated that at least 100 kilometres of bushland on both sides of the two highways we used were burnt out as far as the eye could see. Today we are waiting for some promised rain our total rainfall for 2019 was 580mm below 2018 and over the past three years it has fallen just over 1,000mm. We have lost a substantial number of trees on our place and the surrounding hills which in a normal summer would have shimmering green eucalypts are now very brown. We attended a fire in a nearby national park just before Xmas , it had been burning for a week and was started by a lightning strike, it was scary at night as the eucalypts would literally explode and collapse. In Queensland we don't normally get fires as severe as the southern states due to higher humidity and dew point and wetter fuels on a few of our worst fire days we have had humidity below 10% and negative dew points which normally would be unheard of in sub-tropical Queensland.

Welcome to TBN.

Sorry it's under these conditions. Thank you very much for the report John.

 

[bunyip]

Had a few Huey rides and one in a Cobra which is the same platform, was told not to touch anything except the radio I had to fix, they have a nasty bite.
Traditionally the west of Victoria is the driest and hottest while the east is more temperate, no one told mother nature that this time although the west is more low scrub than forest and fairly flat.

 

[Molalla1]

Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest positive effect.

I've ridden hundreds of hours in Helicopters. I thank God for them. They've hauled me into some crappy places. They've hauled me out of some crappy places. Every time I hear a Helicopter I go outside and look for it. The ole Huey started this love affair.

Thanks to the UK for their contributions!!!!

overszd . . . I can't get the sound out of my head.

 

[ovrszd]

overszd . . . I can't get the sound out of my head.

Me neither.

 

[Molalla1]

We'll stop here and I hear you.

 

[Wagtail]

Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest positive effect.

I've ridden hundreds of hours in Helicopters. I thank God for them. They've hauled me into some crappy places. They've hauled me out of some crappy places. Every time I hear a Helicopter I go outside and look for it. The ole Huey started this love affair.

Thanks to the UK for their contributions!!!!

I believe that there are a couple of Republic of Singapore (they're a 'Commonwealth' country) Chinook helicopters that are assisting too.