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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 00:05
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Over here it's reaaaalllly hot. I mean, in the town I live in it's 44 degrees celcius, and in some places it was getting to 48 degrees. There's been bushfires all over the place, looking out my office window I can barely see across the road, all I can see is smoke, it looks like an atom bomb hit the place.

Wherever you are, is it really hot there as well?
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Blobby 101
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 00:36
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umm... minus 2 today here, man i feel sorry for you. Can't imagine what it must be like to live somewhere that hot.

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Argh ... and they say its sussposed to hit New Zealand to, thanks for being so close to us Aussie!!! Its already hot enough over here


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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 01:19 Edited at: 8th Feb 2009 01:35
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Where I live in Australia is cold and flooded at the moment



Not my picture but it shows what it's like here at the moment... more flood pics here

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Toasty Fresh
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Wow, Thraxas, from here I dunno whether to feel sorry for you or not.

Seriously, it's so damn foggy from all the smoke, it's making my eyes water, and I can see a fair bit of mist down my hallway.
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 02:09
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Round here it's muddy because this is the first week it's been above freezing since November.

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Oh, man...

I was just watching the ABC news, and this town that we go sometimes to go on holidays is completely burned to the ground, except for the fire station...
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I was skiing a couple of hours ago...
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Ok it has officially hit New Zealand, right now its 47 degrees Celsius.


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Wow, that sucks. It hasn't gotten that bad here yet, but at the moment the temperature can't be too bad. All the smoke from the bushfires have blocked out the sun.
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Pics or a didn't happen I want to see the chaos!

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Hang on, I'll see if I can't get the camera working.
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Ah well, the camera is still not working, but I'm serious; The sky is supposed to be clear blue, but it's a thick white color. Here is a news report.

Contrary to what that says, fifty people at least have been killed, and over a hundred homes burned to the ground.
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 07:30
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Its pretty hot down in Tasmania, but not that hot.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 07:41 Edited at: 8th Feb 2009 07:41
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Its currently nearly 2:00 AM here, and its warmer than its been at noon in months.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 09:49
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Come to0 think of it I'm starting to get cold because of all the fans I've set up.
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 10:20 Edited at: 8th Feb 2009 10:22
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You idiot, Melbourne is the one being hit with 48 degrees. Too bad I live there lol. The power went out dozens of times,To many people with all the aircons on and are to girly to withstand at least some heat.Inside my house its it already 30 degrees, and the reason the most of the fires have started is because of STUPID arsonists.

On the news there is now 65 Dead and there estimating over 100. A family were stuck in there car and burned to death. They attempted to drive on the road and the tires melted, They weren't able to open there doors quickly enough and were engulfed in flames.Almost as if Hell has already reached Down under. Hopefully those arsonists will fess up for there murder and hopefully it wont get any worse, I don't want to be evacuating my home yet.

Today wasn't so bad, Had some rain and the humid temp is about 26.
I think those arsonists need a taste of their own medicine...

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 10:31
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Quote: "except for the fire station... "


The irony..

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Quote: "You idiot, Melbourne is the one being hit with 48 degrees. "


I'm in NSW and had a flaming hot 47 degrees this afternoon, hitting 50 in an aircraft... so Melbourne isn't the only place with flaming temperatures.. although Vic has most of the fires.

Quote: "Hopefully those arsonists will fess up for there murder and hopefully it wont get any worse,"


Agreed 100%, half these fires are deliberately lit, and it's pissing me off. Those sorts of people should be locked up for life.

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 11:09
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I'm moving down to Victoria on the weekend
but its not near Melbourne so i'm safe. hopefully

Hmmm... Theres fires down in Victoria but its flooding up north Queensland just put it together and our problems are solved


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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 11:42
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I lived in Moscow, and i think the summers were hot there. It got up to 35 celcius,

you folks in Australia got it bad

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 13:06
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Maybe some eucalyptus trees spontaneously exploded.

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Kevin Picone
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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 13:17 Edited at: 8th Feb 2009 13:18
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Some more news stories,


Victoria's bushfire toll hits 84 as fires continue to spread
Australia's worst bushfire disaster
'Dig deep' for bushfire victims, Australians urged


It was a nasty 42 degrees here on Saturday. Not just the temp tho, but the wind just staggering. Real shock to the system, and I live in 'cold' part of the state. To the north, it's routinely +5 of whatever we are. Which is where most of the fires are.


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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 15:09
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On that note, it's -10 degrees Celsius here, and it's BEAUTIFUL out!

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Posted: 8th Feb 2009 15:47
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Quote: "Round here it's muddy because this is the first week it's been above freezing since November."


Yup here to. Just last week it was -19 out. Now its about 40 degrees.


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ah, jeez, i remember the 2003 fires in san diego. (the witch creek fires a couple years ago weren't close to where i live) It was at least 100 degrees out (Farenheit's better ), plus santa anas and the ash. The fires literally were less than half a mile away from my house before the winds started blowing the other way. Theres a stone wall with the name of the neighborhood on it at the end of my street, and that was completely scorched...
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Posted: 9th Feb 2009 03:38 Edited at: 9th Feb 2009 03:38
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Oh, my god. I hope it cools down over there, and I hope you are ok.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_australia_wildfires


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Posted: 9th Feb 2009 04:11
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Yeah, it was 48C (118F) on Saturday, then by Sunday it had dropped to 21C. Crazy.


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Quote: "Yeah, it was 48C (118F) on Saturday, then by Sunday it had dropped to 21C. Crazy."


Holy crap...


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Posted: 9th Feb 2009 05:47 Edited at: 9th Feb 2009 05:47
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It's horrible, 128 dead, Possible even more, The fire is 4 storeys high and travels at 15km per hour, thats faster than running speed.
Yeah it dropped down to about 21 as well on Sunday, But what would you expect in Victoria? Lol In Victoria there are no such things as seasons, seems like we have anything anytime, one day its hot the next day its raining and freezing.

My friend knows a few people that used to live in Melbourne that died in the fire, They were close friends. I think they were in the car when the a tree on fire collapsed on them. It's pretty crazy, How even the grandparents manged to escape but leave the grand kids behind. I'd hate it if my parents a banded my kids while they were being looked after, I would never forgive them.
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Posted: 9th Feb 2009 07:03
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Yes, it is rather horrible...

When I went to school today it was FREEZING, well, mainly because the teach shifted me to right underneath the air conditioning duct...
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Yesterday, 48 degrees. Today, about 20 degrees and pouring rain.

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Today was 33 degrees in Brisbane. Lucky my room has a/c


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today on the radio it said that the winds propelled the speed of the fire up to 120 km/h and more than 130 confirmed dead approximately 200 dead and nearly 1000 homes destroyed, that day it looked like the atmosphere of mars and the heat burned your eyes out.

three towns have been reported to be razed to the ground.

this is reported to have been victorias worst natural disaster in recorded history.

Hell i could still see the fire from my work today.

RIP to all my friends that parished (2)

lol one my moms mates saved himself by hiding in adrainage pipe...
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I want to know if those suspected arsonists were responsible. If so, someone should burn them, seriously! It's a real nasty thing to see something like this happen. But atleast the fatalities weren't in the thousand's. (Forgive me if that sounds morbid.)

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many of the fires were started by arsonists, especially the one at marysville wich levelled the town and killed about 10 people..

The people that lit those fires are going to get whats coming to them and are going to be charged with murder and have heavy sentences...
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it's still goddamn HOT! mainly ballarat, as i just camped there.

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really cuz its stayed down in the 20s mainly for the last month....
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