HansO, Chicken Little says - Yep the sky is burnin' and no sight of Midnight Oil either!

[Ishrub]

I agree completely about the animals. I hate to see anything suffer, well except possibly a wasp. I do not have much appreciation for those things.

Ethical hunting demands a clean humane harvest.

Yeah, and besides the millions of incinerated native wildlife. A smaller fire on the NSW Vic high country boundary near Corryong where Stock welfare officers have found 12,000 cattle and 6,000 sheep that need euthenizing.

 

[Kevin frazier]

This hurts

 

[Ishrub]

Tasmanian bush fires
Tasmania Fire Service

South Australian Bush fires

CFS Incidents and Warnings

 

[Ishrub]

Western Australia Bushfires have cut the only h'way connecting to South Australia for at least a wekk due to fires on the Eyre Highway crossing the Nullarbor Plain.

Home - Emergency WA Warnings & Incidents

 

[BDKcoyote]

Hey @HansO , @ruzzle and @BDKcoyote .

Please Post a reply when your services are restored which may be 24 hours plus.

Internet services are intermittent here at the moment, some areas have no power, phones, internet or water. I eventually disconnected the NBN and tethered my mobile to get decent internet. I'm also lucky to be in Moruya where we now have power. Queues are long at petrol stations, it has taken me 3 days to fill my car up with diesel. Woolworths supermarket opened this morning with queues of more than 100 hundred people. Many shelves are now empty. The local airport is getting some flights when the smoke clears for them to land. It is also being used as a staging base for the helicopters and water bombers fighting the bushfires. Elvis the fire fighting helicopter is also here. Many businesses and homes have been lost but due to the lack of electronic communication we aren't sure to what extent. Most of us here know someone who has lost a home or business or both. Quite a few locals have told me of meeting people from out of town who are confused and unsure where to go or what to do. Many rural residents have evacuated to town centres and are camping in parks or any available area they can find. As the highways open tourists are leaving but quite often a highway will close suddenly and they are forced to wait for hours in their car. We are being warned to brace for more dangerous conditions on Saturday when it is expected to get much worse. Hopefully things will improve after that. I just spoke to Ruzzle and Hanso. They are both good. I think Hanso has a freezer full of cakes.

 

[Ishrub]

Good to hear from you mate. A journo Phil Coorey who has a house at Tuross Heads took his family back to Canberra very early this morning and was driving back to Tuross alone via Brown Mountain to stay at his property which is pretty safe comparatively except for ember strikes that can travel many km . At about 3.30 pm he said the traffic was backed up bumper to bumper, vans, boats family etc, on the 25 km twisting 2 lane mountain road from Bemboka to Cooma. He was the only one coming back the other way. The Princes Hway south of Batemans to Bega was blocked again later.

He said it was chaos with no traffic mgt as Police busy elsewhere. He said hopefully by early morning it will have cleared to allow any more to dash up to escape the pending conditions Saturday.

 

[phar2slo]

Great reports @Ishrub/peter.

I too like Tal don't think it's good to like your updates.

Take care to all our mates in ozzzie

 

[Ishrub]

Half way up the Brown Mountain overlooking the coast and back to Bega.

 

[phar2slo]

Looks like less smoke in the air than what we had here yesterday.

And we're over 2000kms away.

 

[Ishrub]

Looks like less smoke in the air than what we had here yesterday.

And we're over 2000kms away.

Just a stock Google 'look out' photo of the landscape in summer with normal non-smoke eucalypt forest haze.