Car confirmed uneconomical to repair. Payment has been made via EFT to my bank, funds available within 3 working days. I’m going car hunting tomorrow.
Noticed my mother has had the National Broadband Network connected, not for internet but just telephony.
Arnica ointment purchased to help treat my car accident bruising is proving quite effective in combatting lower back pain. I may yet sleep tonight.
Feb 16, 1983, cont, the worst part: There were two volunteer-manned fire appliances not far from that creek & they were trapped a little after 7pm when the wind changed direction. I lost a good friend & also a workmate among those who died on those trucks.
Feb 16, 1983 cont. after 3 km we arrived at the main road. Looking north-west of out location we could see a grass fire on a wide frontage roaring up a gully towards us. We made it out OK. Two hours later the fire moved through where we’d been cooling off.
Feb 16, 1983. With a few workmates I was sitting in a shallow creek looking to the west at the reddish sky. There had been big dust storms for the last week or so. But there was something else this day. SMOKE! We piled into our trucks an made off westward.
A tale involving bushfires from my past. True story. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ei8it671wkovezb/Firey%20time.doc
@larand I was evacuated in the 1983 fires which came to within 1 km of the caravan park I had moved into four months previously. Not many possessions & all fitted into my little van.
@larand What's the temperature, Larry? Thinking back to the last severe fires we had that started on Feb 7, 2009, it was 47℃ in the capital city. Eventually there were 255,000 hectares of forest lost as well as 173 lives. In total there were about 400 fires throughout the state that day. Victoria is about half the area of California.