Ausmumof3 Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Hoping for some rain for you! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hope you're all doing okay Melissa, and have gotten some of this much needed rain! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 We haven’t had any rain. The fire is just very slowly creeping, which is amazing as we have gale force winds today. They have a lot of resources on it (we hope), helicopters, bulldozers, firefighters, the Fiji army with rakehoes . There are lots of dry swampy heathlands that are within the fire area and are burning as well. we are completely frustrated by the lack of information and have turned into crazy people checking wind speed, satellite maps, radar weather maps, hotspots, tuning into scanners etc multiple times a day. I think DH and I can recite what the wind is going to be doing every 2 hours until Tuesday next week. All we really know is the fire ground is still burning and is slowly creeping. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/8/2020 at 4:09 PM, Melissa in Australia said: We haven’t had any rain. The fire is just very slowly creeping, which is amazing as we have gale force winds today. They have a lot of resources on it (we hope), helicopters, bulldozers, firefighters, the Fiji army with rakehoes . There are lots of dry swampy heathlands that are within the fire area and are burning as well. we are completely frustrated by the lack of information and have turned into crazy people checking wind speed, satellite maps, radar weather maps, hotspots, tuning into scanners etc multiple times a day. I think DH and I can recite what the wind is going to be doing every 2 hours until Tuesday next week. All we really know is the fire ground is still burning and is slowly creeping. Did you get rain this weekend? Hoping you’re still ok. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 9, 2020 Author Share Posted February 9, 2020 We didn’t get any rain on the weekend, but it is meant to rain today. Hoping it is heavy. About 100 mm would be great. Fingers crossed 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Sending rain prayers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Praying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 We got 8 ml rain. Not enough to put fires out. But apparently the fire behaviour is suppressed. There are 4 peat fires in dry swampy heathland. So they have set up carbon monoxide monitors. It stinks 2 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 One of our neighbours told dh they have put in 100metre bulldozed firebreak. To try and stop the westerly spread of the https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=2ahUKEwjG7ueN2MjnAhWJXCsKHYFRBJgQwqsBMAF6BAgKEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDELWPGippsland%2Fvideos%2F227363048260974%2F&usg=AOvVaw1PR72z5JFBSSXk3kqY6k7D if this link works it shows the devastation at Cape Conran. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Melissa in Australia said: We got 8 ml rain. Not enough to put fires out. But apparently the fire behaviour is suppressed. There are 4 peat fires in dry swampy heathland. So they have set up carbon monoxide monitors. It stinks Ahh disappointing we had a bad seaweed dire once (not close to us) and the smoke was unbelievable. I imagine peat would be worse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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