On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:34, Conor MacNeill wrote:
> Ted Husted wrote:
> > Peter, I hope you and yours are well. The Australian "Black Christmas"
> > is all over the morning news here.
>
> The smoke is pretty thick here right now even in the city suburbs.
> Having all your windows shut up when the outside temperature is in the
> mid thirties isn't fun. Of course, we are better off than those who live
> on the edge of the bush.

yer - I have seen the burns and some of the projected burns and it 
would be horrible to live in any of those areas.

> Anyway, Ted, I'm sure Peter isn't too concerned, he is about 800 km
> away, in Melbourne. We do like their helicopter though.

Actually I was in the heart of sydney (darling harbour/belmain/parramatta) 
until just before new year ;) Had to return to melb though as asthma was 
playing up due to the smoke. 

The scary part is some of my companies software is being used to manage the 
resource deployment up there ... crossing fingers that nothing breaks ;)

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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