Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS
So the official fire season for 2009-2010 started here in Australia a couple of weeks back. This thread'll be for all the fire-related stories over the coming six months - unless of course something so catastrophic happens that it warrants its own thread (i.e. firestorm reaching the Sydney suburbs)

This year is predicted to be one of the worst years in history for fires - in terms of fuel load, preceding drought and of course the weather (hot n' dry, it's already bumping up to 27-28 here and it's early spring)

The fires have already begun.


https://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2009/10/21/802858/rockhampton_fire_420-420x0.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 … =australia

Firefighters are battling two fires that are threatening homes and property in Queensland's central districts and strong winds are set to test containment lines around a fire on the New South Wales north coast.

Fire crews contained up to 50 fires that burnt across Queensland yesterday, but conditions are fanning more blazes today. There are more than 20 fires burning across the north of New South Wales.

Residents at Mount Archer National Park in central Queensland are on standby to flee as a bushfire approaches homes and properties.

People near Frenchville and Lakes Creek, near Rockhampton, have been told to finalise their bushfire action plans as the blaze is expected to affect communities within the next few hours.
Time to get cracking and start planning, clearing gutters, getting an escape plan ready etc. etc.

The stay-or-go policy is still in effect EXCEPT at the 'catastrophic' code-red level (the new sixth level) at which the recommendation is that you GTFO early. We learnt last time the consequences of people trying to fight an unfightable fire.

GL. Stay safe.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6343|what

I'll be in Canberra around Australia day. Not looking forward to the temperatures at all. I was there during the bush fires from a few years back and am really hoping it's much cooler this year, but I doubt it will be.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS

AussieReaper wrote:

I'll be in Canberra around Australia day. Not looking forward to the temperatures at all. I was there during the bush fires from a few years back and am really hoping it's much cooler this year, but I doubt it will be.
It was really really really really hot this year. I remember one two-three week stretch where every second day was a thirty-five plus. No surprise the fires were especially bad.

And you don't need to remind me about '03... those fires got within 10m of my house. Will never forget the trees behind literally exploding into flame.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
rdx-fx
...
+955|6782
Strange.

In Montana (USA), this was the calmest fire season in a decade.

Normally, we get called out for 30-45 days of firefighting a year.
Best year for firefighting was 2006, with 67 days of firefighting.
This year?  only 4 days.

Unusually cold and wet here this year.
Last time it looked like this was 20-25 years ago.

Hope you Aussies have some of the same weather.
Sucks for wildland firefighters, great for everyone else.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS
Well, they're saying that this year could well be worse than last, which isn't good.

PS. We're still into a catastrophically bad drought which started some time before 2002 (for some places even earlier - up to a decade earlier) and has continued, unbroken, across the vast majority of the country, til now, and looks like no signs of breaking - in fact, given how pathetic the supposedly 'drought-breaking' rains were, there's a good case to be made that this is permanent.

Last edited by Spark (2009-10-20 19:17:45)

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
VspyVspy
Sniper
+183|6863|A sunburnt country
If there is a large fire close to Canberra, don't stick around, the ACT ESA couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel with a fist full of fifties!
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS

VspyVspy wrote:

If there is a large fire close to Canberra, don't stick around, the ACT ESA couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel with a fist full of fifties!
I live 2 mins away from the old ESA HQ

Yeah they fucked up fairly badly. That's why you have to listen to the radio and be ready to go.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
BN
smells like wee wee
+159|6958
I don't think we will see the same magnitude of fires compared to last years. People have had a big wake up call.

I spent this weekend clearing some paddocks in my sisters farm and burning the trees/logs/sticks as have most people in that area.

Fingers crossed.
S3v3N
lolwut?
+685|6709|Montucky

rdx-fx wrote:

Strange.

In Montana (USA), this was the calmest fire season in a decade.

Normally, we get called out for 30-45 days of firefighting a year.
Best year for firefighting was 2006, with 67 days of firefighting.
This year?  only 4 days.

Unusually cold and wet here this year.
Last time it looked like this was 20-25 years ago.

Hope you Aussies have some of the same weather.
Sucks for wildland firefighters, great for everyone else.
It was calm, but I have a growing hatred for the Holter Lake Area and around Missoula/Seely Lake.

Also if we have a really shittytastic winter and hot summer with all of the pine beetle killed tree's, Montana will be like Cali. 

It won't be good.

Last edited by S3v3N (2009-10-20 20:54:19)

Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|6791|132 and Bush

rdx-fx wrote:

Unusually cold and wet here this year.
Last time it looked like this was 20-25 years ago.
Yea this here..
"October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record" http://cbs2chicago.com/local/october.co … 47099.html

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/200 … +Melbourne FL
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009 … recordcold IA
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1818 … 09.article IL
Xbone Stormsurgezz
mcminty
Moderating your content for the Australian Govt.
+879|6912|Sydney, Australia
It's like 32°C in Sydney today, no breeze. I fucking melted on the way home from uni. Lets hope it isn't nearly as bad as it could be..
Red Forman
Banned
+402|5590
spark trying to drum up some al gore style fear....
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS
red forman trying to derail a thread...

itt: NOT global warming. happy?
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Burwhale
Save the BlobFish!
+136|6413|Brisneyland

Red Forman wrote:

spark trying to drum up some al gore style fear....
Dude you have to take the fire thing seriously. Spark didnt mention Global warming at all.
Red Forman
Banned
+402|5590

Burwhale wrote:

Red Forman wrote:

spark trying to drum up some al gore style fear....
Dude you have to take the fire thing seriously. Spark didnt mention Global warming at all.
uh huh.....
BVC
Member
+325|6886
32??  You can send some of that heat here if you like..its so unseasonally cold, most of my seeds haven't germinated even in a propagator, and people are still wearing jackets!

Hopefully theres no big fire this year.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS

Pubic wrote:

32??  You can send some of that heat here if you like..its so unseasonally cold, most of my seeds haven't germinated even in a propagator, and people are still wearing jackets!

Hopefully theres no big fire this year.
32's not warm. Weakling.

Last month was pretty cool too, which was nice. Warming up now though - 27 yesterday, 27 tomorrow. This might be the "false start" to spring we always get every year though, we always have a few really warm days then back to cool weather for a while before it really warms up properly.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS
good program on fires last week on catalyst

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/series/catalyst - should be up for at least the next few days. I don't know how you can get past regional restrictions if not in aus though... though i think other people do (kmar?)

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2727469.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2727549.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2727521.htm

oh, and i was wrong about the false start thing. was hard to sleep last night, did not expect it to be that warm.

anyway, probably this year nsw/act is the 'alert' state as we haven't had one in a while. victoria's had about three or four in a row, probably not enough fuel for another big fire.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
BN
smells like wee wee
+159|6958
It's started:

Two bushfires have broken out in eastern Victoria

A 700-hectare blaze broke out near Mallacoota in East Gippsland on Saturday and a fire stretching 50 hectares has been burning for several days southeast of Orbost.

Both fires are burning in national parkland and are not threatening properties at present.




It's going to be 40 in central Vic next week. It's not even summer yet
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS

BN wrote:

It's going to be 40 in central Vic next week. It's not even summer yet
what.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6296|eXtreme to the maX
It 40C here right now.
No doubt it will be hotter in summer, and all the hills and gullies are waist high in fuel, should't the parks people be clearing the parks at least?
Last weekend I did a load of brush-cutting and mowing in the bits we are responsible for.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2009-11-07 21:38:23)

Fuck Israel
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS

Dilbert_X wrote:

It 40C here right now.
No doubt it will be hotter in summer, and all the hills and gullies are waist high in fuel, should't the parks people be clearing the parks at least?
Last weekend I did a load of brush-cutting and mowing in the bits we are responsible for.
way too late to do anything about it now if it is 40 o.O

edit: it's actually kind of worrying... the authorities here in Canberra did a pathetic amount of backburning. I heard it was like 500ha o.O

Last edited by Spark (2009-11-07 21:52:05)

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,813|6296|eXtreme to the maX
We could get a bit of rain between now and Feb, I reckon its worth cutting it down and trying to keep it low.
Plus I get to use power tools.
Fuck Israel
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6865|Canberra, AUS
Game on.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 … 774855.htm

https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r488333_2522342.jpg

Bushfires are wreaking havoc across New South Wales, with a number of large blazes menacing homes and destroying property.

The Rural Fire Service (RFS) says sheds, crops, cars and at least one house have been destroyed by a large fire at Gerogery, north of Albury, in the south of the state.

A large bushfire has also destroyed a house and sheds and forced the evacuation of some residents in Londonderry, in Sydney's north-west.
Stay safe.

---

Not good weather for fires btw. Hot - about 35C and gusty winds.

Last edited by Spark (2009-12-16 23:18:12)

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
13rin
Member
+977|6669
Y'all ever do controlled burns?
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