Hmmm... I think both bushfires I've been to (years ago in the Grampians and then in Gippsland in 2006) were before Christmas. I know we're not used to thinking of it that way because it's not until January that we really begin to bake, and hot weather = fires to most people, but it's more dependent on moist fuel drying out toward the tail-end of Spring and humidity dropping.
Chris Carson would have known more and explained it better than me; him being the fire educator and all. I miss him a lot, but think perhaps it's good that he isn't here for this. The sense of failure would be... ugly.
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Date: 2009-02-09 07:46 am (UTC)Chris Carson would have known more and explained it better than me; him being the fire educator and all. I miss him a lot, but think perhaps it's good that he isn't here for this. The sense of failure would be... ugly.
Dad says the death toll will top 200...
Jindi Cheese factory burned down...