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    Anyone Heard from Digger lately?

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    23 hours ago, Digger said:

    After a frustrating morning trying to get into our property yesterday we were finally advised that a permit was available. We did that and were allowed in and were amazed at the devastation  we found!  Our lovely rural hamlet Sarsfield is a war zone, in some streets almost all houses are gone, in others the odd house has gone, in others most are gone with the odd one inexplicably still standing.

    We were one of the lucky ones. Everything o; our property is devastated except for our house. Sleepers in a garden bed behind the house are burned out, our front door mat has had several ember burns, that how close it came to taking our home

     We are incredibly lucky. The rest of the place is like the surface if the moon! I worked my hairy little bum off earlier in the year to accumulate enough firewood for the next season and was feeling pleased with myself....it’s all gone!

    I have nothing for winter now. The hydraulic splitter was destroyed in my shed, it will have to be replaced as I’m not. able to split by hand these days.

    Ironically my old tractor and trailer survived out in the open whereas my new tractor is a total write off as we’re all my other major bits of machinery that were  in the shed..

    Compared to many of our neighbours we are incredibly lucky! The old bloke 3 doors down is unaccounted for and his house totalled and of course we are worried about him. Others are also unaccounted for but hopefully they just haven’t thought to register with authorities.

    It will take years to recover but we are a close knit community and will help each other.

    I consider myself to be a lucky Digger to still have a house. We still have dangerous days ahead as tomorrow looks horrendous. The only thing left on our place to burn is the house so hopefully we will get through that too.

    I can visualise the whole east coast being burned as  a group of fires join to become the biggest fire Australia has ever experienced.

    3 years of drought h ave caused things to be so bad. Mother Nature  is getting back at us for our neglect of this planet, and Mother Nature always wins!

     

     

     

     

    Ive been looking on the news,the smoke cloud is HUGE, God help the Australian people. 

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    2 hours ago, merciful-evans said:

    Pork Pies mainly. Probably more due to Buster Keaton's example than Lester Young. 

    I usually wear felt one rather than this straw one. I have several. Some American, Italian & some English; including Christies, Stetson, Whitely etc.

    Note Alto player Mark (far left) also hatted on this occasion.

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    Looks good on you.

     

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    Anyone Heard from Digger lately?

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    1 hour ago, Digger said:

    Thanks Bob,

     

    Thats all just part of our way of life here though seldom (if ever) have we experienced the breadth of fires that we are experiencing now. I fear that the whole east coast is going to burn until there is nothing left. This is a massive hit to our lovely wildlife too.

    We are going to try to ingress via back roads today avoiding police roadblocks, to see it for ourselves, maybe we will be able to sleep from then on, maybe it will be worse? Our next door neighbour tells us that the house should be safe as there is nothing left to burn on the property!

    We haven’t been able to locate one of our elderly neighbours as yet and just hope he made it out before his house was razed. So far we have lost 3 houses out of 7 in our court and another just around the corner.

    Yes these are difficult times for us Aussies and we haven’t even hit the warmest months yet.

    Gael & I are luckier than many so very grateful.

     

    Glad you guys are ok.  I can't imagine how horrible it is, loss of life because of it. 

    Anyone Heard from Digger lately?

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    19 hours ago, Digger said:

    We lost everything but our main house!

     

    Rozs cottage, farm shed , tractors, mower, tools all gone! Our house is still standing by some miracle.

    Sarsfield the small rural hamlet we live in is all  but gone, our court is all but gone!

    Total devastation!

    However we are alright and we have insurance.

     

    Thank God your house was saved! I wish the rest of your farm would've been. Fire is a force hard to reckon with, here's to the firemen that risked their lives to stop the destruction.

    Anyone Heard from Digger lately?

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    22 hours ago, Digger said:

    Bushfires look like they could come through here today so we are evacuating. In fact the whole region is being told to get out!

    Daughter has a house on the water where we should be safe. Today will be an awful day 42C and strong winds.

    My country is on fire after 3 years of drought

    Give us our rain back please?

     

    Hoping for the best for you and your family, I can't imagine what Austrailia is going through with these fires. 

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    Please excuse me...

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    22 hours ago, Digger said:

    Apart from fires all around us and moving valuables into storage, it’s great Jim thanks

    Hope you guys have a great Christmas!

     

    Yes,I've been reading about the bad fires down there, stay safe and have a wonderful Christmas!

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