Aussie smoke

[terbang]

Flew up and down NZ's main trunk yesterday and there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere at the moment. It goes right up to 24000 feet and has some quite thick brown layers. I guess it is smoke from burning gum trees..?
Doing a tasman today so I suspect all will be further revealed and wil try to get a picky.

[Big Dave]

It's houses. 30 or more so far. Serious shit. And they got no water.

[wildpudding]

What are you flying mate?

[Hillbilly]

It's houses. 30 or more so far. Serious shit. And they got no water.

There's a fire with a 100km front in Victoria.
Drving home last night there was a lightning strike that started a huge bush fire beside the F3 on the Central Coast. Had to drive through a wall of smoke heading north, and the sky was glowing orange from the flames. NSW is currently 97% drought declared and the Central Coast and Sydney are on level 4 water restrictions.

Luckily I live in the Lake Macquarie/Newcastle/Hunter region which has plenty of water.

[SPman]

The front is now 240km wide!

Some arsehole lit a fire in Mandurah today - they contained it quickly, but burnt out 40 hectares and a couple of houses!

Gonna be a long hot summer......... (was only 36 today..)

[Hillbilly]

Bastards! Some firebug lit a fire in bush about 4km up the road. Burnt the whole reserve out, and got really close to some homes. Wild fires started by lightning strikes I can understand, but arsonists.... :angry2:

[mstriumph]

i was a volunteer bush firefighter mebbe three years back - thought the fires i attended THEN were worthy of respect .................... but they were infants compared to what is happening over in the eastern states right now

poor sods

if it was deliberate and they catch whoever lit them they should castrate the bastard, roast his testicles over the fire he's lit and make him eat them ..... yes, am assuming its a bloke - that's part of the usual profile

[marty]

What are you flying mate?

73's. with roos on the tail.


but we don't hold that against him.....

[Jantar]

I flew to Wellington on Monday afternoon and it was the thickest smoke haze I've ever seen. There was an inversion layer at around 18000' and passing through it was like flying flying through a brown cloud. Above the inversion the air was clear, but it was almost impossible to make out any features on the ground imediately below. Coming home today the air was once again clear. The southerly change has helped.

[ghost]

Good thing they didnt ratify the kyoto agreement, think of the meeelions they would owe in carbon credits........:mellow:

[Motu]

Sometime back in the 1960's when I was a kid the skies were red at night from the fires in Australia.....looks like we'll be getting it again.

[Al]

Feel sorry for the people affected by the current fires.
We have had our burning permit issued and will be burning on our 40 acre block this weekend. Have enlisted the help of lot of neighbours and a contingent of firies as this is our first burn since becoming rural land owners!

Wish us luck...

Al

[Switch]

Sometime back in the 1960's when I was a kid the skies were red at night from the fires in Australia.....looks like we'll be getting it again.

That happend a few years back didn't it? I swear i remember seeing red skies as a kid?

[Motu]

Yeah but that was before they invented global warming....they had to call it something else.Fucking big fire or something like that I think.

[Hillbilly]

The smoke/haze kaes for some awesome sunsets though. In the Central Coast
suburb known as The Entrance, the sunsets are grey with a big magenta ball in the sky. Looks like something aout of Star Wars. Same with the sunrise! All shades of pink.

However when that fire came close a couple of weeks back it wasn't funny. I live on the edge on Lake Macquarie, and first the day turned orange, like looking though "blue blockers", then it got really dark, like dusk. That was at 1 im the afternoon. Couldn't see more than 200 meters because of all the smoke. It stings your eyes and burns your lungs.

[MOTOXXX]

doesnt help when the gum trees emit flamable vapour i guess.

a lot of kiwi boys are over there now fightnig the fires

[Edbear]

if it was deliberate and they catch whoever lit them they should castrate the bastard, roast his testicles over the fire he's lit and make him eat them ..... yes, am assuming its a bloke - that's part of the usual profile



And give him a good telling off, too!:innocent:

[Hillbilly]

It's all part of living over here. Espescially if you live in a rural area like I do.
I had this idiot in a Hotel boast about he and his brother would light bush fires "for fun" so they could "watch the firetrucks" ... :mad:

[deeknow]

I flew outta Melbourne on Saturday, at street level it just seemed like big-city smog (think LA) but after we took off there was this almighty brown sludgy layer of crap almost as far as the eye could see. Ugly.

[Grub]

It's all part of living over here. Espescially if you live in a rural area like I do.
I had this idiot in a Hotel boast about he and his brother would light bush fires "for fun" so they could "watch the firetrucks" ... :mad:

Tell me you DID report him to the Police!!!! It might be your house next time.

B

[ZorsT]

That happend a few years back didn't it? I swear i remember seeing red skies as a kid?
I remember seeing a very red sky a few years back. I also being able to look directly at the sun because of lots of smoke, I'm not sure if it was smoke from over the ditch or not though

[doc]

Hey this is AUSTRALIA there are more aussie's discussing this than Kiwi's. They obviously have a "Cunning Plan" to take our concetration off preparation for The Rugby World Cup I really hope its our this time

[terbang]

What are you flying mate?
Boeing 737-400.

[Alice]

I think that Australia is going to suffer a lot more as global warming accelerates, they already have such a hot dry enviroment, some places have been in drought for over 5 years. I was reading recently that there is now a problem in some rural areas with people rustilng water, imagine that, getting up in the morning to find your tank water has had the water siphoned out of it. Thats serious shit when people have to steal water.
Yesterday morning they where talking about backburning some country around a water resoviour that supplies Melborne I think it was, cause they are worried that if the fire burns right up to the lake it will cause contamination to the water supply.

[Hillbilly]

few months ago workers for Hunter Water dumped 25 million litres of fresh drinking water down the drain. They needed to empty the tank to fix a valve or something. No transferring to other tanks, no that's too much work!! Just open the drainage valve and let all that water run down the drain while having a smoke.

The idiot's were photographed too, and it was in the local paper. Residents on the Central Coast were livid as they're all on water restictions. Nobody lost their jobs though - bloody Unions!!