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Live update link and text as of 2:40PM:
http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/warnings/fire.shtml

Bureau Home > Australia > New South Wales > Warnings Summary > Fire Weather Warning

Fire Weather Warning
IDN22000

Fire Weather Warning
for the Far North Coast, North Coast, Greater Hunter, Greater Sydney Region, Illawarra/Shoalhaven, Far South Coast, Monaro Alpine, Southern Ranges, Central Ranges, New England, Northern Slopes, North Western, Upper Central West Plains, Lower Central West Plains and Southern Slopes fire areas
Issued at 4:10 am EDT on Tuesday 12 November 2019.

Weather Situation
Hot, dry and gusty winds will generate very dangerous fire conditions across large parts of New South Wales today.

For the rest of Tuesday 12 November:
Catastrophic Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire areas:
Greater Hunter, Greater Sydney Region and Illawarra/Shoalhaven
Extreme Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire areas:
North Coast, Southern Ranges, Central Ranges, New England, Northern Slopes and North Western
Severe Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire areas:
Far North Coast, Far South Coast and Monaro Alpine
Very High Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire areas:
Upper Central West Plains, Lower Central West Plains and Southern Slopes
The NSW Rural Fire Service advises you to:

Action your Bushfire Survival Plan now.
Monitor the fire and weather situation through your local radio station, www.rfs.nsw.gov.au and www.bom.gov.au.
Call 000 (Triple Zero) in an emergency.
The Rural Fire Service advises that if you are in an area of Severe Fire Danger:

If you plan to leave finalise your options and leave early on the day
Only stay if your home is well prepared and you can actively defend it
Prepare for the emotional, mental and physical impact of defending your property - if in doubt, leave.
For information on preparing for bushfires go to www.rfs.nsw.gov.au.

No further warnings will be issued for this event, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings issued if necessary.


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[John of Wallan]

https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2019/11/12/victoria-fire-danger/

Up North is a warning for what I can expect in the new year.

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[John of Wallan]

NSW fires LIVE: Gladys Berejiklian confirms at least 150 homes lost, RFS issues multiple emergency warnings for northern NSW

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-qld-bushfires-live-rfs-continue-to-fight-blazes-across-state-as-greater-sydney-our-on-high-alert-state-of-emergency-declared-20191111-p539ma.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-12/nsw-bushfires-burn-amid-catastrophic-conditions-live-blog/11694646

Live fire map:
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me
Not looking so good up North.

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[John of Wallan]

Yesterdat not great overnight, but could have been worse.
Still not out of the woods up North. Queensland expecting bad conditions after NSW got a bit of respite.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-13/queensland-bushfire-conditions-deteriorate-nsw-winds-fan-flames/11697554

Politics getting grubby. Elected idiots thinking they know better than actual scientists will always end badly.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/barnaby-joyce-says-sun-s-magnetic-fields-cause-bushfires-science-says-20191112-p539xb.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/prayers-aren-t-enough-prime-minister-20191112-p539v6.html

Fiddling while Rome burns. Here is what we can expect this summer; no power!
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/victoria-pushes-for-urgent-overhaul-of-energy-rules-as-blackouts-loom-20191112-p539yl.html

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[John of Wallan]

LIKE I have been saying... We are still in Spring. Wait until summer.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/the-worst-is-ahead-state-faces-multiple-bushfire-emergencies-20191112-p539yf.html

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[John of Wallan]

Worst seems to have passed in NSW.
Queensland still having difficulties.
Live updates:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-fires-live-updates-rfs-continue-to-fight-blazes-across-state-20191112-p53a18.html
Starting to count the costs:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-12/voices-from-the-bushfire-front-in-central-queensland/11696162

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[John of Wallan]

Pretty wells sums upthe issues:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/11/13/bushfire-climate-change-science/

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[John of Wallan]

Fires starting to quiet down a bit. Still a few hot spots and plenty of fires still burning in remote areas.
Fair bit of damage done up North, and unfortunately a few fatalities.
WA was feeling left out so it seems....

Real time fire information:
https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me
https://www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au/map/Pages/default.aspx


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/nsw-bushfires-inside-small-town-wiped-out-wytaliba/11702106
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2019/11/14/while-australia-burns-the-world-watches-our-credibility-go-up-in-smoke/
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/11/14/a-horrible-map-to-look-at-no-rain-as-australia-enters-grim-summer/

Now for the clean up. Like Black Saturday down here, many will never recover. 10 years later and plenty are still physically and mentally scarred. Still affects me when I remember that day, and I was not directly impacted by the fire.

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Like Black Saturday down here, many will never recover. 10 years later and plenty are still physically and mentally scarred. Still affects me when I remember that day, and I was not directly impacted by the fire.

JOW

You should write the story of Black Saturday in Oz. I would like to Publish that on the Diner Blog.

Your recollections, people you know who got hit, etc.

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Just when you thought you were out of the woods...
https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2019/11/15/heat-western-australia-bushfires/
Some interesting live wind maps.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/bushfire-conditions-impacted-by-wind-speed-direction/11703662

Like Black Saturday down here, many will never recover. 10 years later and plenty are still physically and mentally scarred. Still affects me when I remember that day, and I was not directly impacted by the fire.

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You should write the story of Black Saturday in Oz. I would like to Publish that on the Diner Blog.

Your recollections, people you know who got hit, etc.

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I have a few stories about Black Saturday. A property I cut wood on lost their house and they narrowly survived when many of their neighbours didn't.. Stories of apathy before hand and finger pointing afterwards by the same people is what wrangles me still to this day. 10 years later we are back to apathy. Would make very poisonous cynical reading....

Sounds like my type of story now I think about it.
I will see how much time I have this weekend.

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Just when you thought you were out of the woods...
https://thenewdaily.com.au/weather/2019/11/15/heat-western-australia-bushfires/
Some interesting live wind maps.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/bushfire-conditions-impacted-by-wind-speed-direction/11703662

Like Black Saturday down here, many will never recover. 10 years later and plenty are still physically and mentally scarred. Still affects me when I remember that day, and I was not directly impacted by the fire.

JOW

You should write the story of Black Saturday in Oz. I would like to Publish that on the Diner Blog.

Your recollections, people you know who got hit, etc.

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I have a few stories about Black Saturday. A property I cut wood on lost their house and they narrowly survived when many of their neighbours didn't.. Stories of apathy before hand and finger pointing afterwards by the same people is what wrangles me still to this day. 10 years later we are back to apathy. Would make very poisonous cynical reading....

Sounds like my type of story now I think about it.
I will see how much time I have this weekend.

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No rush.  I do think it would be quite interesting for our readers though.

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[John of Wallan]

I will write an essay about Black Saturday over Christmas holidays when I have time on my hands.
Here is an update of what local areas are like 10 years later. I cut firewood in Kinglake West, and the Kilmore East fire came within 10km of my place on Back Saturday, before wind change blew it up to Kinglake and eventually linked up to Marysville, which was pretty well wiped off the map.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/in-the-path-of-disaster-the-big-causes-of-bushfires-that-most-of-us-are-missing-20191115-p53b0b.html

Fires up North still burning:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-17/nsw-bushfires-nearly-500-homes-destroyed-since-start-of-season/11711898
https://www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au/map/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me
Tasmania is even starting to get into the action:
http://www.fire.tas.gov.au/Show?pageId=colGMapBushfires

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/should-you-stay-or-should-you-go-bushfire/11701108
The Psychology of people in bush fires is an interesting topic. I have experiences to share about this when I write my essay.

My time will come. Every year I try and prepare a little bit more. Every year the conditions get worse and I get a bit older and slower. Every year the local population density increases.

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My time will come. Every year I try and prepare a little bit more. Every year the conditions get worse and I get a bit older and slower. Every year the local population density increases.

The "Time" comes to us all int he Bye & Bye.  Betchya My Time comes before yours!  LOL.  No atter, we will share a few Pints of Foster's in the Great Beyond together, and share our memories of what once it was liket o be a Meat Package walking the Earth.

Ask not for Whom the Bell Tolls...



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[John of Wallan]

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSz7Lv_B_c
Fosters is shit, that's why we export it. Mind you warm cats piss filtered through a footballers used sock would taste better than most american beers I have tasted, so Fosters is not bad in comparison... Could never figure out why you yanks cant make good beer or good coffee fr that matter.
 
If there is an afterlife I will seek you out for a quiet beer or 5 followed by a few rowdy ones. Don't plan of finding out any time soon.

Oz fires are still around and popping up everywhere.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-17/queensland-bushfires-pechey-ravensbourne-mt-lindesay-focus/11711290
Our stupid politicians is unfortunately one area we are as bad as the US or maybe even worse...
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/barnaby-and-the-idiot-foghorns-not-everyone-got-the-memo-about-quiet-australians-20191115-p53b08.html
Pigs the lot of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLBtMz5OuY&list=RDJvl0MDXH96M&index=3


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Could never figure out why you yanks cant make good beer

Obviously you have not had a Deschuttes Porter, Alaskan Amber or Boston Lager.

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