Comments | leadgend: Fires and stupid people

leadgend

Fires and stupid people

Feb 09, 2009 00:27

Spot fires made it as far as Doreen so quite close to my parents place in Yarrambat but thankfully stopped short. They were ready with buckets of water everywhere and the extra driveways put in after the last bushfire there in 1980 make their house easy to defend by CFA trucks ( Read more... )

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aphephobia February 8 2009, 14:10:56 UTC

I'm so glad your parents are okay, d00d.

And... *hugs* just because... yeah.

Here's hoping your mates up that way-- and their families-- are safe.

leadgend February 8 2009, 23:41:32 UTC

I don't know anyone who lives up there any more but I guess that many of the the parents etc of people I went to school with 25 years ago would still have been there. The last time I drove through Kinglake (about 8 years ago) I commented that it looked like a fire trap... seems I was right. :(

aphephobia February 8 2009, 23:44:49 UTC

That was around the time we were looking at buying a block of land up there (we had friends from uni up there who have since moved elsewhere). I remember my Mum saying pretty much the same thing...

mrben February 8 2009, 19:41:02 UTC

Yes, I saw you wandering up Barkers Rd at about 9:30 last night as I forgot that part of town would not be a shortcut through to Elwood.

leadgend February 8 2009, 23:37:53 UTC

I'd parked in Alma road so it was a fair walk back to the car. I didn't see anyone I knew at the festival but you saw me so I guess that counts towards the whole "can't go anywhere without encountering someone I know" thing...

mysterysquid February 9 2009, 08:16:24 UTC

Glad they're okay.

leadgend February 10 2009, 00:03:59 UTC

As it happened there was no serious danger to them but it all comes down to wind speed and direction when major fires are even vaguely close so anything could have happened on the day.

Natures Fury anonymous February 9 2009, 09:18:07 UTC

I too lived in Ninks Road in and around 1980. Back then it was lot 2, not sure what it would be numbered now though. It was close to the Kinglake end on the left hand side going down towards the scouts camp. We purchased the vacant land and started building as I thought, the home I would live in forever, that was until sickness struck and we unfortunately had to sell up. The lovely couple we purchased the land from I fondly remember calling nan and pop Bugden. They were grand parents of a girl friend of mine (Rhonda) back in my School days. I too went to Hursbridge High but at that time I lived in Diamond Creek. When we moved to Ninks Road, Nan and Pop lived on the opposite side to us , in an older style home until they too decided to build a little further down the road, but still next to their then existing home ( ... )

Re: Natures Fury leadgend February 10 2009, 00:00:46 UTC

Hello anonymous person.

I haven't been up Ninks road for over 20 years so have no idea who lives(lived?) there recently and have no idea what has survived but given the intensity to the fires in that region I suspect not much. The Willshire's lived up near the end of Ninks road at the time I was last there.

Re: Natures Fury anonymous February 10 2009, 05:59:11 UTC

thank you for responding.