Best: Not sure yet.

Worst: The heat. Stickign ot the damn chairs is growing damn tiresome.
Worst: Getting woken up at 11am.
Worst: Jagging up having a crack at that chick at work. #-o

Best: Have new Uni offer at way better Uni.
Worst: Got no accommodation worked out.
Worst: mk could return any minute.

Best: inside all day with aircon
Worst: homework and assignemnts to do and i have no idea how to do as i havent been back to skool yet!!

That's ok, that means Random_Hero will fuck off. It's a high price to pay, but a fair one.

Still? Poor form. :?

Best: I've been in bed most of the day.
Best: Seeing the missus again, soon.

Worst: Nothing.

:shock:

Best: Air Con
Best: Its Saturday
Worst: It will be Sunday tommorrow.

Worst: My house almost burning down.
Best: Wind changes direction and bypasses house.... just.. and i mean just..

I know how it feels
the house we recently moved from in the 2000 bushfires (i think 2000 bushfires it was sometime around that time) was right at the end of the street and at th end of the street was bush and our house also backed onto the bush and the flames came right up to the end of the street and our roof tiles at the top of the roof turned black
The sight of flames a few metres high that close to your house is extremely scary
Elvis the helicopter that dropped water dropped like right next to our house

Edited by morgan234: 7/2/2009 10:14:06 PM

I was at a mates house about 30 mins from home, and i went outside and the sky was like black... looked at my phone and had 12 missed calls from family. as i was driving home seeing everyone running around like chickens without heads and seeing fires on either side of the road. but luckily the wind direction changed and bypassed out housing estate. Comissirations for anyone who leaves near by and lost thier house.

We came close with our house. I was at work and the duty manager comes in and tells me to be prepared to drop everything and evacuate at a moments notice there is a fire, I look outside and there are flames and smoke right near my house and my mum called and siad thye were evacuated to my Aunties. The power went out and we evacuated work and as we were about to leave the fucking board called and told us to go back in and save as much dairy and meat as possible so we do this in pitch black darkness all the time the flames are getting really close and the roads are blocked so I cant get home but luckily my dad sent one of the reporters to get me. It was so bloody scary though sitting out the front of work wondering if the house was ok and I had heard that some close friends lost their house as well

Bloody Victorians and your dramatic lives! #-o
The most dramatic thing I did troday was kick my toe........

Yeah, the fire came close to our estate but didnt get into it but I was so scared when the wind changed. Near my house they are battling a pretty big blaze that is about to reach our basketball complex and has a;lready claimed several houses, we wne t for a look and within a killometer there are threes glowing, embers, flying and fires throughout the bush as our estate is on the edge of the bush

man, unlucky, i dont wanna feel what youse are going through.

Luckily, im relatively safe from fires

I suppose when you hear on the news of the possibility of fires the day before the first thing you think off is that the fires will be some other part of victoria. but when they land on your doorstep, ring the door bell and say hello im hear to take your house, its only then you take a few steps back and say....Fuckkkkkkk...

our house was basically in the bush for the fires
and there was a vacant block next to us and that got burnt out
it smoldered for the next few days after wards
we weren't allowed inside our house for a couple of days even after the flames were down
we had all the most valuable things and me and my brother stayed at our grandparents for a couple of days
while dad was part of the volunteer fire crew for the street so he was taking shifts fighting the flames while mum stayed at someone's place up the road and they would constantly be taking drinks and food to the fire fighters
but nothing is scarier when you are 6-7 years old and seeing flames come that close to your house
knowing that you could lose almost everything in a matter of seconds of the wind changing scares you

we found out about the fires being near our place from a friend
they called us up and talked to my mum and they are like "are you packed yet" mums like "nah we ain't going away on holidays for a week" the other person goes "no look out your window" mum looks out and all you hear is "fuck!"
like you say you think its never going to be near you

To your Dad & Mum i salute them..

Apprently there are more than 40 deaths and a whole heap of people trapped up in King Lake (10 mins from my house) in a building where fire fighters cannot get to them.

Edited by .:bp:.: 7/2/2009 10:31:21 PM

Yeah i can relate to the "It will never happen to me" thing. Sitting out the front of work watching the trucks just keep coming from places I have never heard of all to the direction of my hose was frightening and the sense of helplesness was crazy. But it was strangley exciting as well, terrifying but still a tad exciting

All my clothes, lap top (xbox 360 & Fifa 09)ect are in my car as we speak. keys are ready to go if it gets worse. finger crossed.

Shit I heard that there was at least 14 deaths.

Wow. Some of the stories in this thread are incredibly, can't imagine the feeling of seeing fire so close. This year is the first year I've sort of semi-worried about it, there's a fire about 20/25 km from us, which, in the context of your stories isn't that close, but it's certainly the closest I've ever been to a bushfire by far. A stray ember must have floated in and landed in our neighbors yard, which ended up burning just about everything in their yard.

i just found out one of my good mates from school is stuck in the fires somewhere in victoria
:(

Edited by morgan234: 7/2/2009 10:37:39 PM

There was a fire at Toronto while I was there.
People were evacuated and everyone was really shitting themselves.
[size=3]Dont ask me why I was at Toronto[/size]

Unlucky bp, at least it looks like we are safe now. There is a pretty big fire a few ks away but its heading in the opposite direction, our only worry is the emnbers now. In the center of Bendigo today (far from the fires which are in my area in the outer suburbs) apparently an ember travvlled a full 10 or so K's and landed in the open window of a cra and burnt it right in the center of town, that is just weird

Canada?:lol: :lol:

That's insane. Good luck mate, hope it doesn't reach that stage.

Yeah my dad was out with the reporters not too far from our house and told mum to gte out quick so we they had to quickly grab the pets, photo albums and other valuables and head to my aunties

Hope not. went out for a quick drive to see how bad its gotten. Still hasnt gotten any better. theres a grass fire directly across the road with the power lines above. Remarkably our power is still on. while the power is off in places half an hour away.

Jesus. This stuff is nuts.