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Date: 19 Dec 2006 22:02:06
From: Colin Wilson
Subject: Smoke's back today
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After a few days clear, the smoke haze from the fires is back today. Not
as bad as last week where we couldn't see 500 metres, but it might get
thicker in tomorrow's heat and wind. The sun is just a big orange ball,
and there's that asthmatically pungent burnt eucalyptus smell.
Think I'll avoid playing golf.
The weatherman is saying there's a reasonable possibility of 10-20mm
rainfall on Friday as some moist air comes off the Tasman Sea with a
low. Here's hoping. Those people at the firefront need some relief.
800,000 hectares and still burning.
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Cheers
Colin Wilson
Very dry Anglo-Australian
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 00:22:25
From: Chris Bellomy
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Colin Wilson <nowhere@nospam.com > wrote:
: After a few days clear, the smoke haze from the fires is back today. Not
: as bad as last week where we couldn't see 500 metres, but it might get
: thicker in tomorrow's heat and wind. The sun is just a big orange ball,
: and there's that asthmatically pungent burnt eucalyptus smell.
...thus furthering my belief that Australia is in many ways
the Southern Hemisphere version of Texas. We tend to get
smoke season here, too, from fires in Mexico. Not fun.
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Chris Bellomy
C-List Charter Member
http://clist.org/
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 09:35:31
From: Colin Wilson
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Chris Bellomy wrote:
> ...thus furthering my belief that Australia is in many ways
> the Southern Hemisphere version of Texas. We tend to get
> smoke season here, too, from fires in Mexico. Not fun.
Here's about an hour before sunset tonight at my place.
http://publishing.kyneton.net.au/smokysunset.jpg
There's actually not a cloud in the sky. And I'm about 250km west of the
fires.
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Cheers
Colin Wilson
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 16:49:23
From: Chris Bellomy
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Colin Wilson <nowhere@nospam.com > wrote:
: Chris Bellomy wrote:
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: > ...thus furthering my belief that Australia is in many ways
: > the Southern Hemisphere version of Texas. We tend to get
: > smoke season here, too, from fires in Mexico. Not fun.
:
: Here's about an hour before sunset tonight at my place.
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: http://publishing.kyneton.net.au/smokysunset.jpg
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: There's actually not a cloud in the sky. And I'm about 250km west of the
: fires.
Yep, I know that look. Looks like nasty haze, but it's not.
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Chris Bellomy
C-List Charter Member
http://clist.org/
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 09:34:13
From: david s-a
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Colin Wilson wrote:
> After a few days clear, the smoke haze from the fires is back today. Not
> as bad as last week where we couldn't see 500 metres, but it might get
> thicker in tomorrow's heat and wind. The sun is just a big orange ball,
> and there's that asthmatically pungent burnt eucalyptus smell.
>
> Think I'll avoid playing golf.
>
> The weatherman is saying there's a reasonable possibility of 10-20mm
> rainfall on Friday as some moist air comes off the Tasman Sea with a
> low. Here's hoping. Those people at the firefront need some relief.
>
> 800,000 hectares and still burning.
>
We've got it here also Colin (in the big smoke?), woke up 3.00am to
that same pungent smell, thought we had a fire locally. We've also got
the big orange ball in the sky!
Keep safe!
David
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Date: 19 Dec 2006 23:27:27
From: Colin Wilson
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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david s-a wrote:
> Keep safe!
I'm sad because on my walk last year, the first third from Walhalla to
Mt Hotham was pristinely beautiful. Then you hit the 2003 fire area and
followed burnt trees all the way to Canberra.
Now the whole Australian Alps is a fire scene. Over two million hectares
of devastation. You can walk 700km along the divide and never escape it.
How's the Anglesea course looking? Trentham is very dry.
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Cheers
Colin Wilson
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 17:38:13
From: david s-a
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Colin Wilson wrote:
> david s-a wrote:
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>> Keep safe!
>
>
> I'm sad because on my walk last year, the first third from Walhalla to
> Mt Hotham was pristinely beautiful. Then you hit the 2003 fire area and
> followed burnt trees all the way to Canberra.
>
> Now the whole Australian Alps is a fire scene. Over two million hectares
> of devastation. You can walk 700km along the divide and never escape it.
>
> How's the Anglesea course looking? Trentham is very dry.
>
Anglesea looking fairly good...but then we do have Class 'B' retreated
water from the treatment plant...and plenty of it! (EPA grant of $190k
paid for it!).....as well as available water from the coal
mine....restricted at the moment. Only three or four other courses on
that side of the bay have treated water.....but theirs is Class
"C"....Barwon GC, 13th Beach, Torquay Sands etc. No-one else has any
water at all, with Geelong District completely on Stage 4 restrictions.
What happens to Trentham's treated water? There could be an EPA grant
of sorts available to access it....well worth looking into! Anglesea's
treated water previously discharged via outfall into Bass Strait!
Interesting point re "Class 'B'" and "Class 'C'" water.
Given the limitations of our reticulation system and permit we can only
water at night.......no-one allowed on the course while watering. It
takes us something like 10-13 hours to progressively water the course,
which is completed by 7.00am. Players may not access the course inside
one hour of watering with Class 'B' water, whereas clubs using Class 'C'
water have to wait at least four hours before allowing players on the
course. Some valuable green fee time lost for those clubs.
At the moment we have restricted watering plan due to treatment plant
limitations...but once the tourists start flocking, and peeing, the
available treated water quadruples (at least)!
cheers
david
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 09:37:46
From: Colin Wilson
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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david s-a wrote:
> What happens to Trentham's treated water? There could be an EPA grant
> of sorts available to access it....well worth looking into!
Trentham's (and Tylden's) waste goes by pipeline to a joint treatment
plant at Kyneton. We can't get it unfortunately.
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Cheers
Colin Wilson
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Date: 20 Dec 2006 09:22:02
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: Smoke's back today
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Colin's never going to get laid with that lame ass weather report
opening line.
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