smoke in se melb

[GREGXR8]

the smoke here is at its worst tonight, its so thick you can feel it in your nose and throat. the house smell like smoke as if the fire was outside. i rang a mate at marysville to see if theyre ok, he tells me the shire of murrandindi is pretty much surrounded by fire now but theyre determined not to let it spoil christmas for the kids. they have got all the important possesions packed ready to go.

[BJ]

Dude i have just come from over that way and i didnt see any smoke.

[GREGXR8]

Originally Posted by BJ

Dude i have just come from over that way and i didnt see any smoke.

im in the estate off pound rd and cranbourne rd and its bad here.

[Blue Ice]

Its 100x worse here in the Latrobe Valley : Couldn't even see the workshop from across the road today. Just rolled in at about 10ish this morning.

[kyro_02]

had it bad 2 days ago... western suburbs(view distance was absolutely ridiculous .. can't image how bad it will be near the fires :(

[GREGXR8]

Originally Posted by Blue Ice

Its 100x worse here in the Latrobe Valley : Couldn't even see the workshop from across the road today. Just rolled in at about 10ish this morning.

its bad enough here tonight, i dont know how you can breath up there.

[Dezza]

My parents are from Maffra in Gippsland, so they are near Cowwarr and Toongabbie where a lot of the fires were. They said last Thursday, the smoke was that bad, it was dark by 3.00pm. You'd have sworn it was midnight, but it was only 3.00!

[THORNSPAWN]

The smoke's getting bad here too, only in the last half hour or so.

[GREGXR8]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

My parents are from Maffra in Gippsland, so they are near Cowwarr and Toongabbie where a lot of the fires were. They said last Thursday, the smoke was that bad, it was dark by 3.00pm. You'd have sworn it was midnight, but it was only 3.00!

thats the one that was deliberately lit isnt it? a mate of mine new the guy that died, he was a freind of his other halves and her farrier. if they catch him they should drop him into the middle of the fire.

[BTTB]

yep

rolled in here too about an hour ago

[brenx]

My wife rang me @ work and said it's pretty bad at our place.

[GREGXR8]

hurts the eyes after a while. the evaporative cooler seems to suck it into the house.

[XR8 Uterous]

Meh, walk out my back door and all i can see is blackened bushland! we had nice big 20m high flames 10m from the back of our house, with only me and my dad there with garden hoses, we got lucky with a fire truck just turning up in time and a change of wind direction... i have had 2 showers since and i still smell of smoke :(

[BTTB]

Originally Posted by MYGT05

Meh, walk out my back door and all i can see is blackened bushland! we had nice big 20m high flames 10m from the back of our house, with only me and my dad there with garden hoses, we got lucky with a fire truck just turning up in time and a change of wind direction... i have had 2 showers since and i still smell of smoke :(

Have too feel for those bloody firefighters

They breath this crap in for weeks !

Top bunch of people !!!!

[GREGXR8]

Originally Posted by EFGTHO

Have too feel for those bloody firefighters

They breath this crap in for weeks !

Top bunch of people !!!!

yep and fires a scary unforgiving thing. most of them are volunteers its not like they're risking their lives for money.

[AU2PWR]

i hear that bears smell the smoke ,

and Bears eat people ,

Smoke is Everywhere

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by gregxr8

thats the one that was deliberately lit isnt it? a mate of mine new the guy that died, he was a freind of his other halves and her farrier. if they catch him they should drop him into the middle of the fire.

Yep, it was deliberately lit. The police had two suspects, but then found they were innocent. The two boys had seen the smoke and dialled 000, so they did the right thing. Wherever the sickos are who started them certainly deserve to be cremated.

[GREGXR8]

Originally Posted by SR_AU

i hear that bears smell the smoke ,

and Bears eat people ,

Smoke is Everywhere

WHAT!!! we dont have bears. except the drop bears

[GREGXR8]

i just put the bins out its still very smokey out there, there's no wind to get rid of it, tomorrow could be interesting.

[Van D]

Best friends dad is in Heyfield (10 mins or so from the fires). She was talking to her dad today and he said it was just so dark up there and he could hardly see anything through the smoke.

4am yesterday (thursday) morning I was outside (i'm in Lilydale) and I could smell smoke pretty thickly. I'm overlooking the valley usually and I couldn't even see past the next street (as in, one house then a road distance away). It looked so awesome, it was creepy as. Because of the smoke there was all these strange shadows (coming from one street light below mainly) and an eerieness to the whole place.. Then I could just see a house covered in christmas lights. It was like a scene from a horror movie or something like nightmare before christmas. If I looked up though I could see the stars (we're on top of the hill) and a few were pretty red.

[GREGXR8]

im going to lillydale in the morning (about 10 or 11) it will be interesting to see what its like. ive got a mate lives off just over the top of the slide at toolangi. ive been trying to ring him tonight to see how he is up there but i cant reach him. mite go for a drive up there while im over that way tomorrow.

[Van D]

Originally Posted by gregxr8

im going to lillydale in the morning (about 10 or 11) it will be interesting to see what its like. ive got a mate lives off just over the top of the slide at toolangi. ive been trying to ring him tonight to see how he is up there but i cant reach him. mite go for a drive up there while im over that way tomorrow.

Yeah it was pretty much all fine tonight. Cleared up a lot during the day, but the early morning was just crazy, didn't feel like the same world, lol.

There's a bit of hazy smoke over the valley, but I sat in our paddock up the road and watched a nice sunset without much smoke blocking it.. I can see toolangi from my house across the valley (well, at least that big arial thingo on top of the hill, so it's gotta be around there somewhere, lol), have fun with driving in the mountains!

[LTDHO]

I was at the beach last night.

It was amazing the smoke hit at about 9pm and the beach disapeared. You couldn't see very far at all. It was spooky

[AU2PWR]

its all gone now in Cranbourne , you can see the Sky

But the Smell is still in the Air ....

Daniel

[Ringo]

Aparently The Pines flora and fauna reserve was on fire last night hence all the smoke.

We are in Mordialloc and as we travelled down Nepean Hwy last night the smoke got bad at Parkdale.

Sorry for all the highly specific Melbourne suburb thread to all non Melbournites

[brenx]

My house stinks of smoke. I've just arrived home from work. It smells like wet ash.

[boss-290]

Fellas, I feel so sick this morning, my throat is sore, I could hardly breathe last night.

It sucks. I so glad its gonna be ****ing with rain for Christmas. Get these damn fires out. Imagine what the brave fre fighters are enduring.

[FPV8U]

It's pretty bad up here in the Valley, i live in traralgon, got up this morning hoping that some of the smoke would be gone but it's just as bad as yesterday.

[GREGXR8]

its not so bad now, very windy and still smells smokey. the winds bound to make it worse for the firefighters though. normally i hate rain but i agree wiyh boss-290 the more rain the better now.

[GREGXR8]

woo hoo its raining. rang freind in marysville this morning he said it was starting too rain. its starting here in narre warren now, hope it sets in for long enough to help.