01-20-2014, 12:01 AM
dfiant1 Wrote:I could only wish for a 40+ day with low humidity. I lived in Sydney in 1994 bushfire season and heatwave when we got a local temp of 47c, 5% humidity, no power, no water, no telephone, and no roads in or out of town open for 3 days...just surrounded by bushfire...ahhhhh...the memories.
I remember that heatwave Daz ,I was pregnant with Jess just 11 days from having him and was living in the Hunter-Vally at the time in Maitland ,I swear I lived in the above ground pool ,and then the Bushfires started if I remember right they started in Sydney and it only took them 42 hours to hit Petes Ridge and a further 48 hours to get to Toronto ,where my sister lived.
Those winds were unbelievable the sky was so dark with smoke the sun looked red.
None of us thought she would jump the ridge so quickly but she did.
My sister was evacuated as her yard backed on to the bush,thankfully nothing got that close.
Anyway Today I feel like a kid again took Jack for his run at the river Abby didn't want to go ,I found a Mulberry bush mmm...mmm... yum so I had a few it brought back memories ,my aunt in Victoria had one and we kids used to raid it lol.