Still nice and hot,I see afew brigades/group's are still having good size grass fire's and the way this is going may be like this till EASTER. I hope not hate melted eggs :x
yeah, summer appears to have reared its ugly head later than usual this year. However, in 2005 winter there were serious discussions about bringing the fire danger season to start in mid october for this summer.
Mmmmm and the permit burning season has started down here in the SE. It's the silly season, smoke everywhere and hot as hell. Hope everyone does the right thing. I am not too keen on chasing rekindles.
Quote from: steved01 on March 24, 2006, 12:39:36 PM
Mmmmm and the permit burning season has started down here in the SE. It's the silly season, smoke everywhere and hot as filtered. Hope everyone does the right thing. I am not too keen on chasing rekindles.
The permit season is our busiest time...and the permit holders often aren't diligent with their notifications...hence much wasted time responding to a controlled burn off..a simple phone call is helpful!
All i know is it was hot, and blowing a gail in the CBD earlier this afternoon...
Yep, hot today and hot and windy tomorrow. It's our busiest time as well. The non notified permits are a real killer and a total waste of time. Its the not knowing which is which that is the real drag.
Hopefully the rain last night & today reached your areas. Thus the potential for calls is minimised.
yeah but the problem we seem to have in our area is that when its been dry for a long time and then it rains, accidents seem more common. I think it could be because people drive on the wet road and make no changes to how they have been driving on the dry road. Does anyone else have this problem in their area?
Rain brings out all the oil in ther road and makes it slicker.
^^ Correct... All the oil, brake fluids, coolants, grime and everything else, is brought to the surface of the road, thus making it slippery as hell.. That mixed with everyones stupid driving in the first few events of wet weather...
= Disaster...
The driving into work this morning heard over 14 accidents in one hour.. most multiple vehicles.. few of them over 4 vehicles involved..
Road Grime = The worlds slipperyest lubricant......
Maybe someone should market it ;)
What did i say??? fresh rain = RCR's. sure enough we got one RCR and a close call involving a woman who decided to stop on a blind corner to look at a map to find her way back to adelaide.
visibility was s***house as well last night
Well at least she stopped and didnt drive along with her eyes on the map, would've had an MVA then.
much of a muchness P F. either way another MVA was minutes away