Member Bootzy / Val - Vic fires

[gibbo]

Val rang me today and she wont be able to log in to the forum for a little while. Her and her husband were involved in the bush fire at Mallacoota [vic] and is without internet etc. They still have their house but understandably very shaken and had to spend a night on the jetty with their boat for safety.

So much more to tell but most importantly that they are ok.

 

[DaveHam9]

I visited Mallacoota a few yeas ago. Lovely spot but isolated with only one main road into the place plus a few minor roads to the south.

My relatives were fighting fires near Dungowan in the week leading up to Christmas.

 

[horse]

Hoping things improve very soon..

Geoff

 

[Ladybird1300]

It's ironic really, all those terrible pictures with people losing their homes and being trapped on a beach, and the new ad with Kyly and Adam Hills singing about people visiting Australia. I think there's a time and a place, but I don't think this is necessarily the time.

 

[gibbo]

Weather conditions are supposedly taking a turn for the worse again this week end.

 

[gibbo]

I visited Mallacoota a few yeas ago. Lovely spot but isolated with only one main road into the place plus a few minor roads to the south.

My relatives were fighting fires near Dungowan in the week leading up to Christmas.

Yeah Val mentioned that road.

 

[emeltee]

Flooding is a bad enough disaster but I'd rather have my house filled with several feet of water than be facing the fires raging in Oz. Those poor folk must be terrified. At least a flooded house can be dried out eventually - you're left with nothing if it's been burnt down. Here's hoping things start to improve soon.

 

[Bootzy]

hi its me... hooked up to genie for power and on gongle.. so far ok ..all a bit shellshocked... mass evacuations going on up the coast from Eden, Bega to Batemans Bay and then up kancobin, tumut etc... all praying for this weekend to be over... xxx Val

 

[DaveHam9]

Glad to see you are fine Val.

I arrived at my cousins place between Dungowan and Weabonga on 28th to find they had no power and all the men folk were out fighting fires a few km away. Most got almost no sleep for three days. My nephew cut a fire break with a dozer and they did some back burning. The worst was over then. Power came back on next day and other neighbours watched for flying embers starting spot fires. The creek had stopped running so they were carting water to it so they had water to pump to the homestead.

 

[horse]

hi its me... hooked up to genie for power and on gongle.. so far ok ..all a bit shellshocked... mass evacuations going on up the coast from Eden, Bega to Batemans Bay and then up kancobin, tumut etc... all praying for this weekend to be over... xxx Val

Good to see you're OK, Val..

Geoff

 

[emeltee]

Glad you are good, if somewhat shaken. What a terrible thing to have to go through.