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Gravdigr 10-24-2012 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 835471)
Firewilly?

It's definitely not firewilly.

I had firewilly once. Doc gave me a cream for it.

Big Sarge 10-24-2012 05:10 PM

Minus the fire, we call them "Dust Devils". With the fire, I think we call them, "Oh-Shit!!!!!".

ZenGum 10-24-2012 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 835582)
It's definitely not firewilly.

I had firewilly once. Doc gave me a cream for it.

Yeah, but you probably didn't need four refills. ;)

Lamplighter 11-12-2012 09:02 PM

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Oh to be in Venice...


ABC News
11/12/12

Venice Floods
Venice Floods as Torrential Rain Hits the City

Link above has many pics...

Griff 11-13-2012 05:50 AM

Snow this morning 1"+.

Trilby 11-13-2012 06:08 AM

cold but gonna be sunny so put on a happy face.

BigV 11-19-2012 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 835471)
We're moving well into spring now, so in the Outback (Thargomindah, Qld in particular) the forecast is for hot dry weather, smoke haze, strong winds, with a chance of fire elementals in the 4 to 6 hit dice range.

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Okay technically that's a piddly little tornado (note the outdoor toilet or "dunny" on the right for scale) which is sucking up a pre-existing bushfire. I've seen things like this in bushfire footage fairly often. Without the fire we'd call it a willy-willy. With the fire, I don't know if it has a common name. Fire tornado? Firenado? Firespout? Fire devil? Firewilly? :lol:

Apparently, a local expert, Rick McCrae distinguishes this apparition as a fire whirl, attached to the ground, and not a fire tornado, which would be attached to the underside of a thundercloud.

ZenGum 11-29-2012 06:07 PM

I just came here to post the ABC's story on that. :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-1...ornado/4380252

I was in Canberra when that fire happened. I was living in a student residence on campus. I stepped out of my room to go shopping late morning, and noticed half the sky was BLACK from smoke, which was drifting kinda in our direction.

It occurred to me that (a) I was the chief fire warden of the college, (b) although we had a plan for a fire in the building, we didn't have a bushfire plan, (c) between the fire and our location was a big mountain covered in bush that hadn't been burned for twenty years, and there are more trees on campus than students. Uuh-ohh.

Luckily, I grew up pretty bushfire-savvy, so I spent the next three hours puling a bushfire plan out of my ear, got all the 36 hoses set up to cover the whole building, planned command structure, recruited volunteer firecrew from the residents, and everything. Later, the uni fire safety officer approved all this and it became the college's bushfire plan.

Even luckier, the fire stayed to the south west and didn't get within 10 km of us, but we were getting burned leaves drifting out of the sky. They had cooled enough to not start any spot fires, but it was an uncomfortable evening.

Our office manager's house was under direct attack. They lost the garden but saved the building. She never came back to work, that I knew of.

Nature can be a real mo-fo sometimes.

BigV 11-29-2012 07:11 PM

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

busterb 12-26-2012 08:43 PM

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Well look as this .Deep in Dixie.

sexobon 12-28-2012 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by busterb (Post 845420)
Well look as this .Deep in Dixie.

Cold times there are not forgotten.

Trilby 12-30-2012 05:08 AM

effing snow here. And no sons to dig me out.


Life gives you sons and then, just when you can use them for REAL work, they run off with Ben-Gal cheerleaders....ingrates.

orthodoc 12-30-2012 07:42 AM

Plenty of snow here, too, coming down hard enough to make the woods look like a Robert Frost poem. Which winter storm are we on, again? Seems to me like it's been one continuous blow.

Griff 12-30-2012 08:09 AM

Excellent X-Country skiing here. I had to fix a mechanical on the tractor's snowblower yesterday and I have no replacement shear bolt...

glatt 12-30-2012 12:11 PM

Just use a regular bolt. ;)

And cross your fingers that you don't hit anything solid.


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