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just wondering if there is anymore news of the fires in victoria

good luck to everyone down there and my everyones thoughts be with the firefighters down there

No news is good news. The TV is silent on the matter.

Tomorrow was tipped to be a dangerous day.. but I think the forecast, at least windspeed, has been revised down a bit....

Still concerns for Warberton I believe...

raining outside now! good thing for those close to the city, other side of th range will probably be hot and dusty though.

don't forget Sound Relief today http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/events/

I'd like to be there just to see Midnight Oil...

"Gunns and smoke stacks are the go.... it's a set back for our country...."

"Short memory.....I must have a... shooort memory"

saw ?John? from Glenwaters yesterday. He was really concerned we'd get a downpour that would wash all the ash into our water supply and of course his dams. Of course, what happened today but a torrential downpour
Almost prophetic
Ash when dissolved into water can buffer as high as 14 pH!!!!!!!!
Really hope all our farmers and anybody else with water collection are not badly harmed by this.

Has Stuart Chignell and his young family made it back home yet?

I haven't heard from him as yet. He wasn't going to have internet where he was holing up. If the fires went past his place, he could have no internet still.
I don't think the fire was so ferocious that the coppers will keep the area cordoned off whilst they search for victims, so I imagine that whilst many fires are still burning, that he'd be home.

He logged in at 2:00am this morning, so I expect that tells us he's alive and well at any rate.

With yesterdays downpour.... the CFA has now classified all/any fires in Victoria as "contained and under control"....

Yep we are back. The fire got to within 4km of our house and that was on the first day and since then it has been a bit of an anti climax, not that I'm complaining. We have been officially out of danger for about two weeks but I've got two excuses for not posting earlier.

First is that I havn't really been home much. First week back I wasn't because I was in the Royal Childrens with my son. Got him out and home on Friday but then on that night we had to go into the Ballarat base where he stayed for the weekend. Sunday he was perfectly fine so we took him home on Monday only to find my self in an Ambulance late that night heading down to the Royal Childrens again.

Got back home again on Thursday but I havn't posted since then because of my second excuse. Namely I've been busy Photos will be posted shortly.

Sounds like a roller coaster Stuart, hope all is well with him now
Faye