Fire is an ecology disaster right now the bottom 1/4 of Australia is on fire.The fire stretches from Newcastle north of Sydney to Adelaide and Melbourne and inland to Canberra Waggawagga and Albury its burning from the Victorian high country to the plains. both sides of the Murray River. I live in the middle of it all. Wildlife is decimated Forests are decimated. Food and water shortages are things to look forward too.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Hell on earth
Just got back from Talbingo where the fires crossed a dam a distance of over a mile. The fire turned into fire balls and crossed the dam at speeds of 1000 k/h. Fire fighters are suffering mental illness from the experiences. The fires wre burning 20 meters above the tree line. I drove for several hours across the Kosciusko national park to Cooma. Every thing flattened Kiandra totally gone. It was enough to make a grown man cry. I too who spoke to several people today have been left scared by there stories. Only saw a hand full of kangaroos and about 10 brumbies at long plain hut road. One tree lopper said they were accused of stealing trees they were cutting down by National Sparks and Wildfires. We never saw any timber trucks with native logs on them. Stood on a bush ant nest and jumped and there was no ants. Some trees are burning below ground.When I can I will post photos .
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
time to heal
When betrayed by your partner of 30 years tears flow and friends leave and then you have nothing. Nothing at all just your old worn out clothes and shoes,The kids stayed because they were too young to leave. Then the reality sets in when everything you worked for is sold for a pittance of what you paid for it.
Even your own family sees you as a looser and stop talking to you, been over 20 years now not even a phone call "how are you"!
Finally the youngest leaves with nothing to live for except your self. Then the murder of your oldest son nothing left lots of tears and the only place to live is your sons house that they bought for you and put in for together.
Four hours away from them knowing no one at all.
Then I meet the hardware man Peter the local high school teacher retired Brian and a retired farmer Donny. Along with these came there families beautiful people. Unforgettable people.
Being burnt out and having nothing would be worse animals gone memories just grey ash on the ground. Then the gawkers and the Evil Insurance companies who find a way not to give you anything.They use things like Arson pre-existing conditions. Yes every one has Dewalt tools hope you had photos of everything on the computer in a cloud. You are treated like a criminal I was virtually accused of causing a flood when the river at Gundagai flooded. Then lost all my tools at another house that was flooded whilst I was away repairing the Gundagai place. This was caused by council not cleaning the streets of rubbish that blocked the drains. Then the price hike in insurance from 500 to 3000. Fuck insurance and all the charities red cross and government blood suckers.
I showed them I got up again but to do it again never.
Love all the friends that I have not meet yet and the ones who stayed.
God just give me strength.
Even your own family sees you as a looser and stop talking to you, been over 20 years now not even a phone call "how are you"!
Finally the youngest leaves with nothing to live for except your self. Then the murder of your oldest son nothing left lots of tears and the only place to live is your sons house that they bought for you and put in for together.
Four hours away from them knowing no one at all.
Then I meet the hardware man Peter the local high school teacher retired Brian and a retired farmer Donny. Along with these came there families beautiful people. Unforgettable people.
Being burnt out and having nothing would be worse animals gone memories just grey ash on the ground. Then the gawkers and the Evil Insurance companies who find a way not to give you anything.They use things like Arson pre-existing conditions. Yes every one has Dewalt tools hope you had photos of everything on the computer in a cloud. You are treated like a criminal I was virtually accused of causing a flood when the river at Gundagai flooded. Then lost all my tools at another house that was flooded whilst I was away repairing the Gundagai place. This was caused by council not cleaning the streets of rubbish that blocked the drains. Then the price hike in insurance from 500 to 3000. Fuck insurance and all the charities red cross and government blood suckers.
I showed them I got up again but to do it again never.
Love all the friends that I have not meet yet and the ones who stayed.
God just give me strength.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Please come to Australia.Just send us your money.
Shit they forgot the fires. As the great George Bush said SHOP SHOP SHOP. Charities said no more goods just send us money. Wont work here, No shops!
Science is so much fun.
Playing with science is just so much fun.
Watching and learning, light a fire and watch how the wood behaves and where the fire actually burns is better than watching days of our lives or any other sitcom for that matter.
How people are so dumb is pretty amazing to watch as well.
Try just sitting somewhere and just watch. You can learn so much about your neighbourhood by laying under a car at night. sounds travel easily at ground level and you hear what is happening 200 meters up the street.
I recon the next best job would be a post deliverer, but I am stuck with engineering.
Could you imagine the havoc you could do being a postie. HAHAHA Just thinking.
Watching and learning, light a fire and watch how the wood behaves and where the fire actually burns is better than watching days of our lives or any other sitcom for that matter.
How people are so dumb is pretty amazing to watch as well.
Try just sitting somewhere and just watch. You can learn so much about your neighbourhood by laying under a car at night. sounds travel easily at ground level and you hear what is happening 200 meters up the street.
I recon the next best job would be a post deliverer, but I am stuck with engineering.
Could you imagine the havoc you could do being a postie. HAHAHA Just thinking.
Fighting geoengineering
We have been banned for lighting back yard fires in Australia. I think it has to do with pushing cold air into the stratosphere and stuffs up with weather modification.No more bonfire nights like we had as a kid. I lit a fire some years ago and it blew a hole in a cloud about 200 meters across and expanded and it rained the following morning.
I might try putting a fan with water vapour into the air stream near the next fire the results could be amazing.
I went to a night out in a park in Parramatta and with all the bodies the cloud got a hole in it above the people,I think the body heat punched a hole in the cloud like a fire.
How are they going to control heat from there supper cities of the future?
I might try putting a fan with water vapour into the air stream near the next fire the results could be amazing.
I went to a night out in a park in Parramatta and with all the bodies the cloud got a hole in it above the people,I think the body heat punched a hole in the cloud like a fire.
How are they going to control heat from there supper cities of the future?
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Clear skies
For the last weeks the ski is filled with smoke, a dismal grey brown and the knowing of suffering.I will take photos of the aftermath in the next weeks. There are quite a few towns that do not exist anymore Batlow the apple producing area lost processing plant fuel and the orchids that they rely on for survival. There are too many to mention Tumbarumba Kiandra just in the Kosciusko area. Selwyn lost everything. The people will suffer
Thousands of homes gone the south east of the continent blackened.
Albatross naval station blackened but saved by the RFS.
It is so emotional and this is from a bloke who has pulled people out of wrecked cars and worked in coal mines. in extreme danger.
SO SAD.
Thousands of homes gone the south east of the continent blackened.
Albatross naval station blackened but saved by the RFS.
It is so emotional and this is from a bloke who has pulled people out of wrecked cars and worked in coal mines. in extreme danger.
SO SAD.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Koala hospital runns on donations
Donate to these guys they are great
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital
https://www.koalahospital.org.au
Thursday, January 2, 2020
For those outside Australiaby Channel 9
Since bushfire season began in August 2019 in Australia, nearly 6 million hectares of land has been destroyed.
Blazes sparked by hot, dry weather and assisted by strong winds have torn through nearly every state in the country.
The death toll is at 19 people and dozens are still missing.
Thousands of homes and buildings have been lost, cars gutted, and farms and livelihoods destroyed.
Collectively, an estimated area of 5.9 million hectares - which takes in bushland, national parks, as well as towns and cities - has been ravaged by the fires.
This figure includes the fires currently burning, plus the regions already burned.
If the total area of land destroyed is added together, the size of the affected area is larger than the whole of Belgium.
When compared to London, the total area hit by the bushfires covers from Birmingham in the north-west all the way to Hastings on the south-east coast.
The damage zone dwarfs Singapore in a comparison.
One single fire, the Gospers Mountain mega-blaze which hit NSW, was approximately seven times the size of Singapore.
In New South Wales alone, more than 4 million hectares of land is on fire or has been burnt. This is more than four times the size of the fires which ripped through Brazil's Amazon rainforest last year.
It is estimated 500 million animals have died in the fires. This includes many species native to Australia such as koalas and kangaroos, and there are fears entire species have been wiped out.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from cities and towns in New South Wales and Victoria ahead of worsening conditions this weekend.
Australia is just one month in to summer.
The season ahead is expected to bring more devastation.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Temperature
27c outside
51c in roof cavity
vegetation temp is 23c
ground temperature is 44c
sky smoke is -5c
51c in roof cavity
vegetation temp is 23c
ground temperature is 44c
sky smoke is -5c
Watch the ground temps
When the temps are high like the other day that is 63 degrees then expect troubles.
The trees are already at 48 degrees and are half way to burning, leaves are falling adding to the fuel load....
Temperatures in a roof cavity are probably over 150 degrees this is why buildings burnt with in minutes.
The trees are already at 48 degrees and are half way to burning, leaves are falling adding to the fuel load....
Temperatures in a roof cavity are probably over 150 degrees this is why buildings burnt with in minutes.
Air brakes on fire trucks
Some years ago working with the late Alex Revel we examined why trucks stopped in fire situations.
It turned out the air brake hoses melted and burnt threw instantly locking the brakes on.
The solution was to protect the hoses with insulation and armoured with stainless steel outer coat.
These were tested and were able to withstand 1000 degrees for ten minutes and that was all that was needed.
If fire trucks do not have these fitted then the government is seriously broken.
Hey guys have a look at you trucks.
I just heard on ABC TV say a truck had its brake apply in a serious situation near Nowra.
It turned out the air brake hoses melted and burnt threw instantly locking the brakes on.
The solution was to protect the hoses with insulation and armoured with stainless steel outer coat.
These were tested and were able to withstand 1000 degrees for ten minutes and that was all that was needed.
If fire trucks do not have these fitted then the government is seriously broken.
Hey guys have a look at you trucks.
I just heard on ABC TV say a truck had its brake apply in a serious situation near Nowra.
Temperatures
Ground temp 23.5
Sky temp is -3.3 and as low as -1.1
Water bombing has continued today
Yesterday the sky temp went off the scale that is over 100 degrees c on my machine.
Saturday they are forecasting worse conditions but I think the air temperature is no where as hot and the ground temperature is no where near the sixty mark. So I am thinking the worst is over in Nowra.
Sky temp is -3.3 and as low as -1.1
Water bombing has continued today
Yesterday the sky temp went off the scale that is over 100 degrees c on my machine.
Saturday they are forecasting worse conditions but I think the air temperature is no where as hot and the ground temperature is no where near the sixty mark. So I am thinking the worst is over in Nowra.
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