Anyone on here been effected by the big fires down there yet?
hope you guys are all safe and well!!
Anyone on here been effected by the big fires down there yet?
hope you guys are all safe and well!!
I live in Canberra, and I just saw a burnt out Sprinter on the news! I was horrified!
Obviously, the lives and property are more important, but I was shocked to see the burnt out sprinter (white)(i think)
Not sure exactly where it was, but I hope the owner is ok, especially if they are a club member.....
1974 MX22 MARK II CORONA HARDTOP COUPE - Awaiting a full restoration
i live in melb but overseas on vacation, hopefully that wasnt my sprinter but ye,
going very bad down vic, all over australian news, over 60 passed away n more than 250 houses burnt already, hopefully it ends soon
its now 80 confirmed dead and 750-800 houses lost
1974 MX22 MARK II CORONA HARDTOP COUPE - Awaiting a full restoration
I thought the Canberra fires were bad back in 01, but this completely fucked up....
1974 MX22 MARK II CORONA HARDTOP COUPE - Awaiting a full restoration
I wasnt affected personally, but i could see the glow of the fires at night, and at one point, you could barely see outside because the wind blew in heaps of smoke, pretty worrying stuff!!
A mate lost his investment property in marysville, out of the whole town, 2 houses were left standing.
Odd thing was, we drove through there late on friday night, seemed as normal as ever. you cant recognise the town now.
Yeah, driving through Marysvile 3am saturday morning and you would have never thought it. Next morning wake up and realise that the place you were in only hours earlier no longer exists.
We were probably lucky that we did'nt stay out longer you think Nath, and lucky we got that Celica going too.
Very good friend of mine from Kinklake West has lost his shed, containing his Motorbikes, a car, lots of machinery, etc. The shed sits about 30m from the house. Apparantly there were about 6 trucks between the shed and the house and they managed to save it. I think its one of only a few houses still standing.
Hes in Melbourne at the moment and they wont let him up there.
Edit: Just got a phone call, different mates house in Drouin is gone.
Last edited by matt99; 9th February 2009 at 03:37 PM.
Has anyone heard from DavisJD? Pretty sure he lived around the kinglake area
im not sure about jd any one got his number?? should give him a call hows he goin..
drove around yesterday with no aircon at fawkner and smoke was already visible coming from wandong area, all i hear was that helicopter was pacing back and fort!!
it was that crazy hot, my eyes found a way to cool themselves down by crying..
and there were shitload of cars broken down too.. it wouldve sucked to be them!
I grew up sort of near bunyip, haven't heard how them ones are going but a mate's house backs onto the state forest, hopefully him and his family are ok