Melbournes Bushfires

[Doctor Bob]

this is what we have in Dromana at the moment, normally when the trees stop there is nice blue water...

 

[Bravotwozero]

I'm located in the Dandenong ranges and it has been pretty smokey up here as well. But was especially bad this morning. This is the view from my back patio.

It has cleared a little since this morning though

 

[Charg'd]

i think everyone should applaud them

 

[Doctor Bob]

this is the sunset looking back over Arthurs Seat

 

[padrickz88]

i wasnt awake this morning to see it, but a couple weeks ago, me and some mates went out and we were on the western ring road going towards the city and the smoke was that bad it gave me a sore throat.... i would put up pics but i didnt take any

 

[smokey_dj]

i gotta admit i know the fires are bad but it made really weird crazy conditions for go karting this arvo at ace go karts

 

[Troy711]

wish i still had pictures from the canbera fires a few years ago. it was unbeleivable. i remember orking on th northside of canberra when they hit. we didnt know what was going on cs we had the CD player going. one of the dudes i work with got a phone call fom his (now) ex wife saying she was scared the house was gunna burn down. we put the radio on and there was a warning alarm and it said houseswere lost in a few suburbs. we walked outside, look to the south and there was a massive plume of smoke.

my house lost power for 3 days and there was ash and half burnt leaves everywhere. i remember driving through the suburbsthat were burnt out about a month later and words cant discribe it... it was like a war zone

 

[craigvk]

Yeah true Troy. Anoyone who watched the news that year saw what went on. Just last year the same crap is happening here as this year. It's going to be a bad year for bush fires. I can feel it like everyone else.

 

[Lumps of cheese]

I've been working in melbourne all week, could really smell the smoke today i thought, i was working out in bundoora and the landfill site where i was working had to stop some work cause of the smoke, pretty bad.

 

[nomad]

They were saying on ABC radio up here today that this is expected to be the worst bushfire year that Victoria has ever experienced. Even worse than the 1939 fires, Ash Wednesday, or the 2003 fires that raged through the North East & Gippsland areas. There was also mention that they could burn for weeks if not months if we don't get any rain.