Weather where you are?

Adelaide's Red Lion Hotel promised free beer if the mercury topped 45 C (113 F) but only while it exceeded that benchmark. Bar manager Stephen Firth said the pub ran dry after giving away more than 700 litres (185 gallons) of beer over more than two hours.

I imagine Chrisk drank most of it - LOL

Warmed up to a balmy -5C today from a cool -25C yesterday along with a couple of feet of snow here on the North Shore - Burrrrrr!
 
Here's my 63 yr old sister cutting a nice line in the powder:
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Powder hound!
46.7 degrees in Adelaide yesterday, highest Australian capital city temperature ever recorded.
Lost landline and internet during the afternoon, modem overheated!
 
It's going to be a stinker here in Tassie today. Forecast is 37C with strong winds and dry lightning. We already have a bunch of fires burning and that forecast isn't going to help matters. I blame the idiots at the Bureau of Meteorology. They're the ones who provide our weather.
 
The Tahune fire is threatening Geevston which is 10K west of our house. Wind has turned westerly and already the air has become smokey. Embers are forecast to travel 10K. Have made preparation to watch for spot fires and put them out if possible. If they start to get to many where are out of here. House and bikes will have to take their chances. Thought i had left all this shit behind when we left the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. At 70+ fighting fires again is to much for us. JW
 
Approaching the big 70 myself JW, after 25 years firefighting is getting hard. Stay safe and stay hydrated.
 
G'day JW. There's a watch and act alert at Lymington where John lives. He's away on a ship so his wife is at home alone. The house should be reasonably OK in the middle of a paddock with no trees around, and the sheep have kept the grass pretty short. But she's a bit concerned that if she loses power then she also loses water pressure (it's pumped from a tank behind the house). I think she's feeling a bit vulnerable so I'll chuck my portable generator in the van and head down there, if only to give her moral support. She has an evacuation plan if it all turns ugly. The plan is pretty simple - load up the dogs in the car and bugger off.
 
Cam, I have test run  my generator for running the pumps if the power goes out and have hoses run around the house.
Rain event is showing on the radar but is slipping away to the south at the moment.
 
Also Lymington is just acroos the water, less than 2Ks away. Sorry I willn't be able to assist if it starts burning over there, that's our trigger to leave.
 
"Powder Hound" Definition in Canada is either a Skiier or Cocaine Sniffer - I was both at one time.

Synonymous to the Tender Flash Point in our Forests. Dangerous Shit!

I have personally doust animals on fire with a 3" hose (Moose, Bear's, Deer's, Porky Pines, Squirrels, Otters, Ducks, Owls, Rabbits, Badgers, Wolverines, Foxes and Wolves) .. etc on top of a mountain where we were all together in the same boat looking at a 100ft wall of Fire with no where to run - If we didn't die from Incineration or Oxygen Debt that 3" Hose required Water from a 5 Hp Gas Pump with whom I trusted that Guy below me to keep it running.

Them moments in time taught me that Life is very precious and respected.

Being a 14 year old Northern Ontarian Fire Fighter back in the 50's and 60's with No Sense ;o)

Love my animals and the Canadian Gov't will not allow me to carry a Pistol in the Bush = CRAP !

Never shot an Animal in the bush save for untold numbers of Ducks and Geese with a 16 Gauge Browning Herstal FN and Ground Hog's with a Cooie 34 Semi 22 with a Bushnell Scope on the farm.

My Lee Enfield Rifle and P35 pistol laid to rest. Canadian War II armament handed down to me from my RCAF Warrant Officer Dad. I was born in 1948 and witnessed the shit my family suffered PTSD through the 50's and 60's from a brave man that served in WWII.

GOD Damn made sure I could handle a Firearm.
 
Good luck Tassie brothers sounds real ugly.Too bloody hot to be fighting fires, wish they happened when it was a bit cooler.
 
I really don't want HelicopterJim to flatten us out with a ton of Pink Crap when I got Wildlife around me.

I'm the one climbing the mountain, pulling the hose and aiming the nozzle.

Yes I've seen trees explode on our last breath - My weapon was that 3" hose.

I'm burnt too.

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Jim - Ever pilot a J3 Skeeter Cub - I did when I was 14 years old on floats - Had a canoe under belly behind the prop (Not my plane but a Bush Pilot that took me under his wing). 80 Hp Cub J3's don't carry much more then 220lbs before they sky.

A Lily Pad Jumper - If you read the conditions right you can jump 100ft in 10 seconds with a Skeeter.

She's Hot Rod Skimmer and about impossible to kill yourself because she don't fly fast ;o)

Jim: I had PBY Catalina's bombing me in the late 50's till the early 70's and today will duck hearing that prop wash or challenge it with a canoe.
 
G'day Maurice, hit 43 here in Cudlee Creek yesterday, nice cool 31 today  :D.
The whole of the Adelaide Hills were on high alert yesterday, all the fire stations on 'Active Standby', including the water bombers, bit like the RAF during the Battle of Britain ready to scramble. Fortunately only a few fires started which were 'bombed' very quickly and mopped up by ground crews before they could spread.
Got pulled over by the police yesterday as I must look like a suspicious character, place was crawling with police on 'Operation Nomad' looking for arsonists and other shady characters.
Stay safe you lot in Tassie, thoughts are with you. (cheers)
 
Not surprised the cops pulled you over Terry, you're a dodgy looking character  ;)

G'day JW. I got Pina all set up with the generator and gave it a test run with the water pump. She has several wall-mounted retractable hose reels ready to go at a moment's notice. The genny has electric start so all she has to do is turn the key and plug the pump in if the power goes off. I reckon the worst thing she'd have to deal with is spot grass fires from embers. The tree line on the hill behind the house is at least 100m away which gives a very good protection zone. It would be scary if the trees went up, and she'd get the fuck out if looked like that was going to happen. But I reckon the brick house would survive OK even in that scenario.
 
Hope she's got heaps of fuel. Ember attacks can last up to six hours.
One of the things that came out of the 'Black Saturday' report was that although people had fire pumps, the tanks were too small to last the distance and refilling the tank during an ember attack is understandably fraught with danger.
Another thing that came out of the report was foot-ware; a lot of the victims were wearing runners, the soles of which melted on the hot ground, stranding the them in the open.
Lot of 'lessons learnt' came out of the report.
 
Laverda SF said:
"Powder Hound" Definition in Canada is either a Skiier or Cocaine Sniffer - I was both at one time.
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Why does cocaine sniffer come as no surprise  :LOL:
 
After the 1968 fires on the Blue Mountains, we were told not to walk about in the blacken bush, typically my brother ignored that and ended up standing on a collapsed still very hot tree stump. I can still remember the screams. One of his dozens of hospital trips back then. Very good point Terry.
 
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