Happy New Year 2025

[sunkacola]

Wollemi is an Aboriginal word meaning 'look around you, keep your eyes open and watch out'.

A very good policy to have no matter who or where you are, and one I practice always.

Hoping for the best for you folks, and that the fire season will not be a bad one this year! I just really hate to think of fire ravaging huge areas, and taking people's homes, the way they have so often in recent years in so many places. Take care.

 

[Harpy]

Sorry @BlueBells , I haven’t been too good. I wish everyone a safe happy and a little less pain this year.
Oh the fires, what a horrifying experience. We had our worse fits in November 2018. With out the fire bombing plane and helicopters we would have lost our farm. They stopped the flames 200 metres from our house.
Then only a couple years later we lost so much in the floods.
I personally think that throughout this past winter our council areas had so much opportunity to back burn and nothing was done.
We are fire ready ( well as ready as we could be) as we have done what ever we could do to reduce our chances with fire. But when you have neighbours like mine on both sides who don’t care and have so much to burn on their properties.

 

[BlueBells]

Hi @Harpy

I understand what you mean, about taking care. Many people just don't get the fact that one should be vigilant in fire protection, because when it comes, it generally gives no warnings.

With the shires/councils, they just may be controlled like here, where city people have banned fire access tracks and fire prevention burn offs. Burns happen, yes, but not as much as should be, simply because there are no access tracks.

Widespread rain in the Grampians should help a lot, not much but widespread.

Hugs