Thread: Dry lightning strikes in central NSW

Blessed with a rain storm, .


An old guy took this pic and said he was to old to fight fires.

Storms coming through here ATM too (I hope, it almost looks like they could be going to the north and south of us)

I'm keeping our tanks full, there's 100 acres of mature, dry phalaris to the immediate west of our small place, so I don't know if we'd have any chance if something did start.....

Where are you exactly Tony?

Originally Posted by series3

Where are you exactly Tony?

25km S/E of Coolah NSW.
Coolah Tops National Park

Originally Posted by rick130

Storms coming through here ATM too (I hope, it almost looks like they could be going to the north and south of us)

I'm keeping our tanks full, there's 100 acres of mature, dry phalaris to the immediate west of our small place, so I don't know if we'd have any chance if something did start.....

Hope you have this cool change your way. That long dry grass is bloody dangerous if some one is careless with it. One of our greatest risk here is some clown using machinery on a hot dry day in long grass.
Had a young chap slashing near buy here with temp over 40 deg and he had no tanker
I had a go at him and he could not understand why there was a problem
After I left he gave it away so it must have sunk in.

Tony

Originally Posted by Rangier Rover

Hope you have this cool change your way. That long dry grass is bloody dangerous if some one is careless with it. One of our greatest risk here is some clown using machinery on a hot dry day in long grass.
Had a young chap slashing near buy here with temp over 40 deg and he had no tanker
I had a go at him and he could not understand why there was a problem
After I left he gave it away so it must have sunk in.

Tony

15mm so far
Had a jumper on this morning.

So many here still slashing/mulching in the last week and no tankers at all
The same the other side of the range too. I get around a fair bit and I'm just stunned how many were into it. The stud next door are running the mulchers through the phalaris paddock ATM, thank my deity.

Cheers Tony,

The reason I ask is i'm driving up to Moree on friday/saturday from Morpeth and will be going past the Coolah area on my way. A little worried about possible fires/roadblocks etc.