If it's been aired in your country already, the bush fires ravaging my state are not located in my area as of yet. I was however stuck in the massive heatwave that preceded it. (DarkView and JP were the ones who suffered the most during that one. I hope they had air-conditioning! ... I sure didn't...)
I've just been inactive a bit for the past few days. My apologies to anyone who's been trying to contact me.
![]() Feb 9 2009, 8:55 pm
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I hope the native Emu populations make it through.
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Read the animal report on the heatwave page.
"There are many reports of Koalas wandering into urban yards and houses to drink water offered by residents; this behaviour is highly unusual as the animals do not normally drink water, as well as being naturally shy of people." As for the Emu's, they'll be fine. |
I did not, in fact, have good air-conditioning. It wasn't fun. But now my computer functions again, so we're all happy.
Good to hear you haven't been horribly burnt to death. |
That's sad to hear that babies were killed in that fire, let alone parents and elderly people.
I say hang the bastard who committed this crime! |
While in Australia the other day, I snagged this shot of Tiberath: http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6472034,00.jpg
Jp was also trying to cool down: http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_News_Wire:_World_News/ 1_APTOPIX_Australia_Wildfires.sff.jpg ;] |
Good to hear. I couldn't remember exactly where you live. Luckly you were AFK on Chatters so I could be relatively sure you were ok.
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DarkView wrote:
Good to hear. I couldn't remember exactly where you live. Luckly you were AFK on Chatters so I could be relatively sure you were ok. I could have abandoned my home and just left the connection going. We have a fire evacuation plan. It sums up to "flood the spouting with water and get the fuck out". =) |
Jp wrote:
I did not, in fact, have good air-conditioning. It wasn't fun. But now my computer functions again, so we're all happy. We only got Air Conditioning after the worst had passed. After four consecutive 40+ degrees Celsius days, coupled with a few high 30s, we got air conditioning on a following 29 degree Celsius day. ... That was painful. |
Tiberath wrote:
I could have abandoned my home and just left the connection going. Yeah, that's what I was thinking but I eventually came to the conclusion that even if your house was ok your internet connection would be dead. A friend's land was hit, burnt everything except her house. Somehow her horses managed to get away once the fences burnt down and she recovered them all really easily. We have a fire evacuation plan. It sums up to "flood the spouting with water and get the fuck out". =) Good plan. Don't forget to grab the HDDs on the way out. Wouldn't want to lose all that... data. |
DarkView wrote:
Tiberath wrote: It's all recoverable in the long run. Just a crap load of MP3's, some website sources that are all stored on the server and a few BYOND sources I can make again if needs be. =) |
DarkView wrote:
Tiberath wrote: Fix'd |