200tdi
17th February 2009, 04:17 PM
Yesterday members of the LROCV, AWDCV and D2AU forum went to Healesville to lend a hand to a couple of families who have lost everything in the bushfires.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/524.jpg
A house once stood right here. We sorted and stacked the rubble out of the way allowing the owners an area to begin again.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/525.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/526.jpg
The old saying "The silence was deafening" rang true there. I sat and listened for a spell and heard only the strange crackling noise the leaves made, not the usual rustle. No birds and hardly any insects. With each step you took a puff of dust and ash bellowed into the air, like walking through the outback bulldust.
I've posted a few more pics here:
200TDi's Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/200tdi/show/)
Rob
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/524.jpg
A house once stood right here. We sorted and stacked the rubble out of the way allowing the owners an area to begin again.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/525.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/526.jpg
The old saying "The silence was deafening" rang true there. I sat and listened for a spell and heard only the strange crackling noise the leaves made, not the usual rustle. No birds and hardly any insects. With each step you took a puff of dust and ash bellowed into the air, like walking through the outback bulldust.
I've posted a few more pics here:
200TDi's Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/200tdi/show/)
Rob