Hi Brian, Experienced the same storm (I'm in Cranebrook). I'm surprised there aren't more fires - there certainly was lots of appropriate lightning!
Glad to hear all is ok. We've had enough of fires around this place... Ciao, Peter in Western Sydney too Brian Walters wrote: > Sitting back watching the Kiwis obliterate the Poms (cricket, guys) - glass > of red in hand - when a storm came in from the west over the mountains. > Nothing unusual about that - summer storms are to be expected here but the > lightning was very close. > > Took a look out the back window and noticed an orange glow in the back > paddock - said orange glow soon developed into a very serious looking grass > fire which was being whipped along by strong winds. I was understandably > nervous at this stage as the flames were reaching about 20 feet into the air > and we have about 100 or so eucalypts between the house and the paddock. > > Fortunately, the storm started to produce some rain, gentle at first but a > heavy downpour doused the flames after half an hour or so. I felt a bit of a > dill talking to the fire brigade officers under an umbrella... > > I've never experienced lightning-induced fire before - not keen to experience > it again. > > I'm going to lie down now.... > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
