Diwundrin
Well-known Member
- Location
- Nth Coast NSW Australia
We'd had a few hundred smallish bushfires so far but the 'serious' ones don't usually happen until around February after summer has cooked it up a bit.
Just heard they've closed Newcastle airport and the roads are clogged with traffic fleeing the area. It's got a wind behind it and has residents and insurance companies very nervous.
Another one has taken a few houses down Tezza's way, in the Southern Highlands, not real close, but that area is not known to feature for bushfires usually.
Another biggy up in the Blue Mountains, Bell's line of Road, but that's ho hum, happens all the time, only unusually early this time.
There's been a bad one burning in the upper Hunter Valley for a week about 20 kliks from Singleton. My family have been in that area for generations and those type of fires just didn't happen 'back then'. Farmers all burned off the dead grass on their own properties in their own time according to weather, wind direction, whim and need.
They're aren't allowed to now, it takes weeks of paper shuffling to get it approved by some desk wallah and the ideal weather windows are lost. They used to clear their own patches of scrub, and burn off ground fuel build up too but no more. Greenies get the vapours at the thought of it.
I was just looking toward the beach here. The trees are doubled over in a roaring Southerly and tinder dry. If some retard on the track through the 'nature strip reserve' between the houses and dunes drops a match the wind will drive it straight along the dunes and take out half the town. We have one fire engine manned by mostly retired volunteers. The younger volunteers will be away down in Coffs working. Not that it'd matter, it would move too fast to do anything about it.
They've been burning off up in the hills for months but can't touch the 'nature reserve' sanctuary areas down here. Someone tell a Greenie that dry trees don't have a fire exemption permit because of what side of the track they're growing on please?
Just heard they've closed Newcastle airport and the roads are clogged with traffic fleeing the area. It's got a wind behind it and has residents and insurance companies very nervous.
Another one has taken a few houses down Tezza's way, in the Southern Highlands, not real close, but that area is not known to feature for bushfires usually.
Another biggy up in the Blue Mountains, Bell's line of Road, but that's ho hum, happens all the time, only unusually early this time.
There's been a bad one burning in the upper Hunter Valley for a week about 20 kliks from Singleton. My family have been in that area for generations and those type of fires just didn't happen 'back then'. Farmers all burned off the dead grass on their own properties in their own time according to weather, wind direction, whim and need.
They're aren't allowed to now, it takes weeks of paper shuffling to get it approved by some desk wallah and the ideal weather windows are lost. They used to clear their own patches of scrub, and burn off ground fuel build up too but no more. Greenies get the vapours at the thought of it.
I was just looking toward the beach here. The trees are doubled over in a roaring Southerly and tinder dry. If some retard on the track through the 'nature strip reserve' between the houses and dunes drops a match the wind will drive it straight along the dunes and take out half the town. We have one fire engine manned by mostly retired volunteers. The younger volunteers will be away down in Coffs working. Not that it'd matter, it would move too fast to do anything about it.
They've been burning off up in the hills for months but can't touch the 'nature reserve' sanctuary areas down here. Someone tell a Greenie that dry trees don't have a fire exemption permit because of what side of the track they're growing on please?
