Australia heaps all kinds of shit on New Zealand doesn't it Hell? :-) Everything from cricket defeats to bushfire smoke!
Seriously, though, if anyone is interested my niece has posted a website of photographs documenting her experience in Mount Riverview, a small community in the lower Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The fire hit them on Boxing Day around lunchtime. You wont see any flames in the photos just approaching smoke (with its eerie light effects) and the post-fire devastation. As I said, my brother and his family were among the lucky ones, their house was saved! The web address is: http://www.mountaintracks.com.au/fire/ Regards, John. Original message from: "hell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For those JMDLers wanting some perspective on how serious the bush fires >really are, I can tell you that on the 2nd of January, there was a haze over >Auckland City caused by the smoke from these fires (our prevailing wind is a >westerly), that descended down the length of the North Island - Sydney is >1300 miles away, across the Tasman Sea! > >Friends visiting from Sydney also said visibility in the city was as bad as >200-300 metres. Here's hoping for some really heavy rain to put these fires >out once and for all. > >Hell >____________________________ >"To have great poets, there must be >great audiences too." - Walt Whitman > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hell's Personal Photo Page: >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm > >Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: >http://www.nbls.co.nz > >. > __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
