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Port Lincoln bush fires S.A
Hi Everyone, maybe you've heard on the news the devastating bush fires
on the Eyre Peninsula SA and specifically around Port Lincoln. The whole area has been gutted and there have been reports of 8 dead and another 12 missing in the area. The fire was traveling at 70 klm per hour yesterday when we had temps of over 41 degrees with gale force Northerly winds. As the winds turned Westerly later yesterday we could smell the smoke as it blew towards us over the Gulf. Some of the regulars who have been here a while would remember Wes Trotman a regular poster here at one time, Wes lived around the Port Lincoln area at that time (I don't know if he still does). I hope you'll join me in wishing Wes and Ros and all their family and friends the best in these terrible times, I havent heard from Wes since he last posted here, I found an email address for him on another discussion group but my email got returned with a "non deliverable" message. So Wes if you are out there mate, let us know you are ok .. and if anyone has kept in touch with Wes, please let him know we are thinking of him. So many natural disasters .... so fragile is life. Pete |
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g'day pete,
good to hear from you again we hope that all come through this period well enough. the last i heard from wes & ros was that they where in the throws of selling to move back to the city (health reasons), so not sure if that has happened yet, will keep you posted as wes & ros feature on another forum at times. take care for all concerned len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote in
: Scotland is in the grip of severe gales and floods; three killed by gales since yesterday, all high bridges closed and the entire ferry service cancelled.The west -coast island of Barra measured gusts of 126 mph last night. We only got 70 mph here. Keep safe Janet. Geodyne |
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pete wrote in
: I hope you'll join me in wishing Wes and Ros and all their family and friends the best in these terrible times, I havent heard from Wes since he last posted here, I found an email address for him on another discussion group but my email got returned with a "non deliverable" message. Fires are never fun to be around. Hopefully all is fine with Wes and his family. I can report smoke settling in the north-west of Sydney yesterday as well, although there have been no media reports as yet. Geodyne |
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g'day pete,
wes & ros are now livning in port lincoln havins apparently sold their property some time ago. so far properties in that neck of the woods apparently have escaped the fires as indicated by the poster of this information on another forum. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
Thanks Pete, I heard about that on the radio news this morning,,glad to hear you're okay. It's a long time since Wes posted. Scotland is in the grip of severe gales and floods; three killed by gales since yesterday, all high bridges closed and the entire ferry service cancelled.The west -coast island of Barra measured gusts of 126 mph last night. We only got 70 mph here. Janet. (Isle of Arran) Hi Janet glad to hear your little bit of paradise escaped the worst of the winds, seems many places are experiencing weather extremes or some kind of force of nature, massive floods in the US and record snow falls/drifts, Saw a mudslide in one US town and of course the worst ...the Tsunamis On Christmas eve the biggest earthquake Tasmania had ever experienced happened 900 klms off the Tassie coast ... I was talking to people about how lucky Tassie was that they hadnt had a Tsunami from that quake when I saw the Indonesian ones, at first I thought it was the same quake or some after shock effect, then I realised it was another one, again the biggest ... I think Ireland has had floods too,??. We had our worst storm that we can remember a few days a go, lost some trees and shed roofs buckled, horses bolted through fences, friends lost many sheds and had severe house damage, luckily no-one hurt but hell it was scary. lost another tree that must have been weakened in the storm when the hot gale force northerlies came the other day (the bush fire day). It makes us realise how insignificant we humans really are when the weather or mother nature decides to throw some huge event our way, theres just nothing you can do except try to stay safe. This year has started off pretty dramatically, lets hope it calms down some. |
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len gardener wrote:
g'day pete, good to hear from you again we hope that all come through this period well enough. the last i heard from wes & ros was that they where in the throws of selling to move back to the city (health reasons), so not sure if that has happened yet, will keep you posted as wes & ros feature on another forum at times. take care for all concerned len snipped How do Len Thanks for the info on Wes ... I wouldnt wish a return to the city on anybody but in this case I hope they did, if ya catch him around the place give him my best wishes mate. |
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"pete" wrote in message
Hi Everyone, maybe you've heard on the news the devastating bush fires on the Eyre Peninsula SA and specifically around Port Lincoln. Some of the regulars who have been here a while would remember Wes Trotman a regular poster here at one time, Wes lived around the Port Lincoln area at that time (I don't know if he still does). I'm glad to hear that you are OK Pete. I had been wondering about you and Wes. I hope he and his family are OK as well. |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
Scotland is in the grip of severe gales and floods; three killed by gales since yesterday, all high bridges closed and the entire ferry service cancelled.The west -coast island of Barra measured gusts of 126 mph last night. We only got 70 mph here. Gee, only 70 MPH! A mere zephyr! Hope there was no damage to the garden and B&B heaven. |
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"len gardener" wrote in message
wes & ros are now livning in port lincoln havins apparently sold their property some time ago. so far properties in that neck of the woods apparently have escaped the fires as indicated by the poster of this information on another forum. Thanks for that update Len. How is your own sale going (or gone)? |
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will do pete.
snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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g'day fran,
all in limbo sort of no one looking so looks like we are here for the long haul, the place looks realy lush and great right now so if we could just get someone on sight with 1/2 a tick they would almost havta buy. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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pete wrote in
: On Christmas eve the biggest earthquake Tasmania had ever experienced happened 900 klms off the Tassie coast ... I was talking to people about how lucky Tassie was that they hadnt had a Tsunami from that quake when I saw the Indonesian ones, at first I thought it was the same quake or some after shock effect, then I realised it was another one, again the biggest ... The Macquarie Island quake wasn't much smaller than the Aceh one though Pete - 8.5, as compared to 8.9. The type of motion at Macquarie is very different to that of the plate boundary in Indonesia, fortunately. If the one in the Balleny Islands in Antarctica ever went off though - those of us in SE Oz should all brace. The end of last year was pretty big to me - we lost 53 distant family members in the tsunami. Hopefully the rest of this year will be somewhat less dramatic. Geodyne |
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Geodyne wrote:
pete wrote in : On Christmas eve the biggest earthquake Tasmania had ever experienced happened 900 klms off the Tassie coast ... I was talking to people about how lucky Tassie was that they hadnt had a Tsunami from that quake when I saw the Indonesian ones, at first I thought it was the same quake or some after shock effect, then I realised it was another one, again the biggest ... The Macquarie Island quake wasn't much smaller than the Aceh one though Pete - 8.5, as compared to 8.9. The type of motion at Macquarie is very different to that of the plate boundary in Indonesia, fortunately. If the one in the Balleny Islands in Antarctica ever went off though - those of us in SE Oz should all brace. The end of last year was pretty big to me - we lost 53 distant family members in the tsunami. Hopefully the rest of this year will be somewhat less dramatic. Geodyne I forgot this was your field of expertise .... strange that the Tassie one seemed to have no effects whatsoever and on the radio people were dismissing it as "yeah ...another earthquake" .... a few years ago I felt our house shake for maybe 10 -15 seconds and moments later the news came on saying we had had a 6.5 ??? (maybe it was only 5.6) quake somewhere in the SE of SA ... miles from us but most of the southern part of SA felt it to some degree, I went outside looking for cracks in the ground I was sure there had to be some .... none.... but I can't even imagine what an 8 or 9 would feel like. |
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i may have said we are here for the long haul that is the long haul
while we wait for real estate agents to get off their butts and sell land, can't afford to stay but can't afford to walk out either and a lotto win would make us very willing to stay that simple, all comes back to government policy. snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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