Bushfires near Tolmie

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Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Mate, I don't know her as we have just moved up here 5 weeks ago. If you can give me further details in a personal message such as address, surname or phone number, I would only be too happy to make contact and forward on your concerns and best wishes.

My wife Meg might know your cousin or I can ask down at the pub next time I'm down there.

There has not been any loss of property or lives in Tolmie so that should put your mind at rest. As I have said in previous posts, the media have beaten it up a bit and the main danger has passed.

Tolmie is a wonderful part of the world so your cousin has good taste, that's why my family moved to Australia about 200 years ago. My wife's people were transported out here at the same time or maybe slightly earlier (First Fleet Convicts).

Are you into woodwork over there in the UK or did you just happen across this Bulletin Board because of the fires?

Al, What on earth are you thinking of doing?:eek:

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Hi Just read your other message to me on the board. No I'm not into woodwork I just happened across your site looking for info on the fires. My cousin Liz was over here in November for a family reunion. We only traced her about 3 years ago when my sister and I were tracing our family tree. We're planning to try and get over there in the next year or so and would love to meet you and show our appreciation for your help - perhaps a drink or two (or three!) at the Tolmie Tavern sounds good for starters.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards Sue

We look forward to it Sue, the beer is cold but you will get used to it :)

There is a strange noise on our tin roof - stuff falling from the sky:confused: Only the odd drop now and then but hopefully a bit more this arfternoon or tonight.

I have removed the plugs from the down pipes (to keep the spouts full of water to extinguish any embers) and moved the downpipes sideways so if there is any rain, all the soot and ashes from the fires will not go into our water tanks. When the water looks clear I will direct the water back to the tanks.

Wonderful job WB, and a good deed, indeed!

We had a front come through Adelaide - heavy storms and all. Following Victoria's usual practice of getting our weather only worse, I hope it keeps on going ... though you could probably avoid the 'worse' bit. A good, state wide soakage would go a long way towards easing things.

Richard
waterwings crossed in hope :D

Theres only been very light sprinles of rain down here.

Send her across Daddles, grab a bit but not too much Bob and then kick it across here.:D

They forecast strong Northerly winds prior to any rain which will play havoc for the people around Walhalla and Sawmill Settlement. We are OK here but not getting cocky.

Looking at the radar there should be a good bit of rain coming over, Rob. We just had a fine sprinkle but there looks to be plenty coming through Nagambie and Shepparton, which should come through to you.

Dan

The latest radar. Looks good to come through your area.

I certainly hope so, Dan, we've had a couple of periods of strong gusts today; the last bad enough to put a tree in our swimming pool... I've just come in after taking the chainsaw for a run

But not even the slightest hint of a sprinkle. These winds are gonna make our boys lives a misery if there's not some serious rain following hard behind... :(

Been pretty gusty here too. Hopefully they get enough rain to knock the go out of the fires. We're getting a bit of rain here now. Not enough to even wet a big fire but it's better than the nothing we've had for the last couple of months.

Dan

WOW !!!

It's absolutely pi$$ing down here now.....Hope it gets to the fires.

Just heard a great clap of thunder, dogs just did a runner and hid under the bed, now, where's the rain, half an hour away I hope.

It's very heavy here. if this gets to the right place, the fire will be out very quickly. :)

This is great news!!!

Yay for the rain...

Pete

Wow, just hit here, it is absolutel pi55ing down, more than I expected:D :D :D

It's stopped :(

We got the legendary 6 drops.

Al :(

bugger :mad:

It's started again here, just light but the cloud is very thick and low.


edit 2 minutes later....it's heavy again, not like before but good enough.

Just had our first drops... a few brazillian gallons in 5 mins, then stopped. Looks like more though... a lot more.

There must've been a BBQ on one of the hills between your place and ours, Gumby, so the clouds lingered for a while... :rolleyes:

We got about 15 - 20mm here, enough to knock the fire down a bit, but you'd need about 100mm to really put a dent in it. Interested to see how much WB got.

Should give the boys a well earned rest though.

Dan

We got 5mm :(

I bought the rain gauge when we first arrived and it's the first time it's got wet. A pity I hadn't bought when it snowed here the first week.

There is promise rain tomorrow and Christmas day.

I heard that a few hundred fire volunteers were being sent home to spend Christmas with their families - what a wonderful gift for them. They will be back shortly after Christmas though.

We are still safe, more than we can say about the people towards and in Gippsland, the poor devils have been threatened for weeks and they are at the stage of wanting it to either burn them them out or go out. We got off lightly as we were only under serious threat for about a week but the tension, smoke, lack of sleep, uncertainty and anxiety after a week does tend to wear you down a bit so I could only imagine what it would be like after a few weeks.

Knowing people yourselves care is very helpful and I thank you lot from the bottom of my heart for showing that care.

During the serious periods, it was good to be able to write down what was happening and to respond to questions and kind thoughts, it tended to put things in perspective.

Glad all's well for you, happy Christmas Meg & Rob.

Thanks Alex and the same to you and Christine.

Still blue skies with some clouds but the barometer is dropping.

It has just started to spit rain here, barometer falling and getting a bit cool.
BBQ for dinner (grilled chicken marinated with fresh rosemary, chilli, lemon rind and juice, garlic and olive oil) and I think it may be unpleasant for the chef :( .
Anyway, logging off until I get back on again, have a good one and I hope it stays cool for you with no fear of new outbreaks for the Christmas break.

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Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Still blue skies with some clouds but the barometer is dropping.

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Maybe if you had of nailed that nail in properly the barometer wouldnt be dropping..or is it the white ants?

Al :p :p :p :D :D :D

The wife and I went up to Robs and Megs today for a visit...

What a disaster everything was black and bunt to a crisp. :eek:

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!


Rob still hasn't got the hang of that Byootifull BBQ that Santa brought him, but apart from that it was a wonderful day with wonderful company.

Took us all of 2 hours to get there.

Only kidding about the burnt food too....:rolleyes::p

We had the pleasure of meeting Rob and Megs daughter Laura and her better half Jarred ( hoop I got the speeling wright ).

Thanks Guys..:brava

Al :yeah:

You shudda gone up before the fires, much better.

Bit of rain and it'll green up very fast.

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Originally Posted by echnidna

Bit of rain and it'll green up very fast.

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What, the sausage?

Al :rolleyes:

It was good to catch with Al and Libby and try out the new BBQ.:yeah:

Wonderful little Shortbread House made by Libby.

The Echidna label wine nicely washed down the BBQ, it was made from grapes and not road kill.

I am sure it will green up very nicely when we get some rain Bob.:)

Owwhhh yes almost forgot, we saw the actual Bower bird and its blue bits, what a strange bird, building the bower so close the the home? Strange..

Al :)

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Originally Posted by ozwinner

Owwhhh yes almost forgot, we saw the actual Bower bird and its blue bits, what a strange bird, building the bower so close the the home? Strange..

Al :)

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Shouldn't this get sent to the naughty room? I mean seeing the birds blue bits.:eek:

Some piccies of the day.

Al :rolleyes::p

Geeze Al, you could've had a shave. :down:

A head like yours would scare little children. :sneek:

I had a shave 2 nights ago, gees, no pleasing you blokes.

On a more serious note..

On the way out from Rob and Meg's place there was a great cloud of smoke way off to the east, I mean BIG......so someone is copping it.

Al :(

Let's hope it isn't Eastie.

Not yet Rob. There's been heaps of fire breaks pushed up, back burning and grading for weeks now. We've just finished getting stock off and we're leaving it to gods for the next couple of weeks.

Fingers crossed, Eastie.

Well, after 6 weeks of fire it's now to the south, east and following lightning earlier today it's a stone throw away to the north on Mount Tambo. Other than a truck load of burnt leaf litter that's been falling, the days without sun and the never ending supply of CFA and RFS tankers from NSW you'd hardly notice there was a fire!

Listening to the radio it's again looking like coming in towards Tolmie.

Looking at the satellite images there also appears to be fire on the border between Coberas and Kosciusko, but the media has ignored that along with the fire that's active near Falls and the one that's burnt the eastern edge of the Thompson Dam last week?

Swmbo had a bit of a meeting here (art/drama group). Its too hot inside and outside under the gumtree is nice so they have their meeting there. Flakes of ash kept falling on the paperwork.