Surviving a potential disaster.

[OzMike]

Bush fires missed our house by 3 streets!
The wind changed and it went in other direction.
The family evacuated and stayed with friends further out and I stayed to defend home, with an escape route planned in case of the worst.
Lucky escape, have any of you had a similar experience?

 

[kelownaseagull]

Hey

First and foremost, take care of yourself. Fires of that nature can be pretty unpredictable!!

We have the same problems here in the hot summers of the Okanagan in BC, Canada.

A couple of years ago we had a pretty bad bush fire behind our house, while another one was raging a few kms up the road. Lucky for us the wind changed direction when it was within a few hundred yards. Family ended up back in the UK for five weeks while I continued to work, staying with friends.

Was also a really bad fire through the Okanagan Provincial Park in 2003. You can find about it online.

Anyway take care of yourselves!!

 

[severnside gull]

Having driven along the edge of a forest fire in WA a few years ago I am immensely impressed that you stayed at the house. Truly terrifying!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

This is one of the reasons why I would never consider moving to Australia. Shit like this just doesn't happen in the UK.


The closest I came was my mum moving me from my room during the 1987 hurricane just in case the chimney feel through the roof.

 

[sydney]

have had close calls in the blue mountains in nsw and up here in wanneroo 6 years back when some k unt set light to bushland at end of road.........i sat on the roof with the hose pipe going to keep the gutters flooded, flames were 150 mtrs away but felt a LOT closer.......good luck mate, i take it you are down south metro area then......?

 

[tedebear]

Wow - that is fortunate (although not sure if you're mad or sane for staying)...

Nasty nasty things bushfires, when we were little I remember one coming through where we lived - it stopped about a mile from our house, but what was bizarre was in the streets where it did go through, not everyhouse was burned down, a few houses weren't even touched and their next door neighbours were a pile of ash...

What I still remember to this day is the sound of it....squealing and shrieking...gave me nightmares for weeks.

 

[glasfryn]

first and foremost and as the others have said you must look after yourself, poor old Aus is really going through it at the moment
hope things go better soon.