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  1. #1
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    Question Floods ! and Fires !

    Hi Guys,

    Probably not the place to ask, There has been several news reports on the TV and radio here about flooding in Sydney and forest fires in NSW ! I hope non of the forum members are affected and that everybody is OK.

    Having seen the news pictures of the devastating fires in California and heard about the floods in Sydney, I thought I would ask.


    Grahame: If this is the wrong place for this post, please move it !
    Thanks:
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Hi BaronJ,
    Locally in North Queensland there are fires to the North, South and West of us.

    Some of them are big enough to warrant the use of a 737 water bomber plus smaller planes and helicopters, though I notice the abscence of Elvis the giant firefighting helicopter PRESENT IN OTHER YEARS.

    It was reveled recently that the monster chopper costs $20,000 a day stand by and $11,000 per hour of operation so I suppose that has a big bearing on it.

    Luckily in our local Mackay area we are clear.

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    Waiting to get a report from RC, as I think his neck of the woods was in the thick of it.

    Michael

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    My report is I am over it.

    The one I have been chasing was originally lit by some dickheads (it was too dry to do controlled burns) on the 20th October (I was taking Phil for a tour and he was with me when we saw it being lit up in the distance), burnt for a couple of weeks in inaccessible country, then when quiet for a week of two then relit itself and has been burning ever since. It was more a nuisance value until two weeks ago when it started coming down and threatening the flatter country so firebreaks were put in and back burning proceeded. Come last Monday which was a good day for fires to escape it jumped the break in two places and there was no stopping it until it hit less grassed and more open country as it was going up every tree and launching itself 300m ahead of the main fire front.

    We eventually got it under control and I lost some hair off my legs when putting in an emergency break with the grader as it has no air con cab and the door is open.

    Things were sedate Tuesday and then Wednesday hit and it was more atrocious then Monday. Our fire jumped three breaks on Wednesday and fires started up all over the Coastal Central Queensland region. In our part of the world we have not seen the likes of it but it was similar to what is a common occurrence in the southern states. 43C temperature and 70kph winds. Waste of time trying to stop it in timbered country. Anyone who builds a house in those areas is just plain crazy.

    The fire we were chasing went far and wide, our section was just a small part of it, I heard it has burnt out 17 000 hectares and counting, mostly rough range country.

    Things have quietened down so far, best we saw it do was throw an ember 1.5km ahead and start another fire, luckily in sparsely grassed country.

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    Website to look up fires MyFireWatch - Bushfire map information Australia
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    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Try and stay safe RC, thinking of you.
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