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Gravdigr · 10-24-2012, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Firewilly?

It's definitely not firewilly.

I had firewilly once. Doc gave me a cream for it.

Big Sarge · 10-24-2012, 05:10 PM

Minus the fire, we call them "Dust Devils". With the fire, I think we call them, "Oh-Shit!!!!!".

ZenGum · 10-24-2012, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

It's definitely not firewilly.

I had firewilly once. Doc gave me a cream for it.

Yeah, but you probably didn't need four refills.

Lamplighter · 11-12-2012, 09:02 PM

Oh to be in Venice...

ABC News
11/12/12

Venice Floods
Venice Floods as Torrential Rain Hits the City

Link above has many pics...

Griff · 11-13-2012, 05:50 AM

Snow this morning 1"+.

Trilby · 11-13-2012, 06:08 AM

cold but gonna be sunny so put on a happy face.

BigV · 11-19-2012, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

We're moving well into spring now, so in the Outback (Thargomindah, Qld in particular) the forecast is for hot dry weather, smoke haze, strong winds, with a chance of fire elementals in the 4 to 6 hit dice range.

Attachment 41351

Okay technically that's a piddly little tornado (note the outdoor toilet or "dunny" on the right for scale) which is sucking up a pre-existing bushfire. I've seen things like this in bushfire footage fairly often. Without the fire we'd call it a willy-willy. With the fire, I don't know if it has a common name. Fire tornado? Firenado? Firespout? Fire devil? Firewilly?

Apparently, a local expert, Rick McCrae distinguishes this apparition as a fire whirl, attached to the ground, and not a fire tornado, which would be attached to the underside of a thundercloud.

ZenGum · 11-29-2012, 06:07 PM

I just came here to post the ABC's story on that.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-1...ornado/4380252

I was in Canberra when that fire happened. I was living in a student residence on campus. I stepped out of my room to go shopping late morning, and noticed half the sky was BLACK from smoke, which was drifting kinda in our direction.

It occurred to me that (a) I was the chief fire warden of the college, (b) although we had a plan for a fire in the building, we didn't have a bushfire plan, (c) between the fire and our location was a big mountain covered in bush that hadn't been burned for twenty years, and there are more trees on campus than students. Uuh-ohh.

Luckily, I grew up pretty bushfire-savvy, so I spent the next three hours puling a bushfire plan out of my ear, got all the 36 hoses set up to cover the whole building, planned command structure, recruited volunteer firecrew from the residents, and everything. Later, the uni fire safety officer approved all this and it became the college's bushfire plan.

Even luckier, the fire stayed to the south west and didn't get within 10 km of us, but we were getting burned leaves drifting out of the sky. They had cooled enough to not start any spot fires, but it was an uncomfortable evening.

Our office manager's house was under direct attack. They lost the garden but saved the building. She never came back to work, that I knew of.

Nature can be a real mo-fo sometimes.

BigV · 11-29-2012, 07:11 PM

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

busterb · 12-26-2012, 08:43 PM

Well look as this .Deep in Dixie.

sexobon · 12-28-2012, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by busterb

Well look as this .Deep in Dixie.

Cold times there are not forgotten.

Trilby · 12-30-2012, 05:08 AM

effing snow here. And no sons to dig me out.

Life gives you sons and then, just when you can use them for REAL work, they run off with Ben-Gal cheerleaders....ingrates.

orthodoc · 12-30-2012, 07:42 AM

Plenty of snow here, too, coming down hard enough to make the woods look like a Robert Frost poem. Which winter storm are we on, again? Seems to me like it's been one continuous blow.

Griff · 12-30-2012, 08:09 AM

Excellent X-Country skiing here. I had to fix a mechanical on the tractor's snowblower yesterday and I have no replacement shear bolt...

glatt · 12-30-2012, 12:11 PM

Just use a regular bolt.

And cross your fingers that you don't hit anything solid.

10-24-2012, 05:10 PM	#347
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Minus the fire, we call them "Dust Devils". With the fire, I think we call them, "Oh-Shit!!!!!". __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

11-12-2012, 09:02 PM	#349
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Oh to be in Venice... ABC News 11/12/12 Venice Floods Venice Floods as Torrential Rain Hits the City Link above has many pics... Attached Images

11-13-2012, 05:50 AM	#350
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Snow this morning 1"+. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-13-2012, 06:08 AM	#351
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	cold but gonna be sunny so put on a happy face. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

11-29-2012, 06:07 PM	#353
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I just came here to post the ABC's story on that. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-1...ornado/4380252 I was in Canberra when that fire happened. I was living in a student residence on campus. I stepped out of my room to go shopping late morning, and noticed half the sky was BLACK from smoke, which was drifting kinda in our direction. It occurred to me that (a) I was the chief fire warden of the college, (b) although we had a plan for a fire in the building, we didn't have a bushfire plan, (c) between the fire and our location was a big mountain covered in bush that hadn't been burned for twenty years, and there are more trees on campus than students. Uuh-ohh. Luckily, I grew up pretty bushfire-savvy, so I spent the next three hours puling a bushfire plan out of my ear, got all the 36 hoses set up to cover the whole building, planned command structure, recruited volunteer firecrew from the residents, and everything. Later, the uni fire safety officer approved all this and it became the college's bushfire plan. Even luckier, the fire stayed to the south west and didn't get within 10 km of us, but we were getting burned leaves drifting out of the sky. They had cooled enough to not start any spot fires, but it was an uncomfortable evening. Our office manager's house was under direct attack. They lost the garden but saved the building. She never came back to work, that I knew of. Nature can be a real mo-fo sometimes. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-29-2012, 07:11 PM	#354
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-26-2012, 08:43 PM	#355
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Well look as this .Deep in Dixie. Attached Images __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

12-30-2012, 05:08 AM	#357
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	effing snow here. And no sons to dig me out. Life gives you sons and then, just when you can use them for REAL work, they run off with Ben-Gal cheerleaders....ingrates. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

12-30-2012, 07:42 AM	#358
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Plenty of snow here, too, coming down hard enough to make the woods look like a Robert Frost poem. Which winter storm are we on, again? Seems to me like it's been one continuous blow. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

12-30-2012, 08:09 AM	#359
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Excellent X-Country skiing here. I had to fix a mechanical on the tractor's snowblower yesterday and I have no replacement shear bolt... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-30-2012, 12:11 PM	#360
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Just use a regular bolt. And cross your fingers that you don't hit anything solid.

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