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I would post an anatomically correct picture but would earn another infringement point !!! It is the Aussie way of saying Ball Bag or Scrotum
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Sorry to change the subject from Douggies relations to fire fighting but I told you I would post some videos of yesterdays events for you Andy.
First the story.
On Tuesday evening I got a call from my sister asking me to come and help them through the night as a forest fire was approaching her 2 houses. Her and her son had spent a sleepless night the night before worrying about the fire that was heading their way. We talked our way through the night but kept a good eye on the fire.
The next morning the wind was blowing the fire past her house and 3 helicopters were dropping water to try to stop it's advance into areas that could affect life and property. In the afternoon the wind changed and the fire jumped a containment line that bulldozers had put in and started to come quickly towards her house. Her son is a quadriplegic and so he was loaded into her car and she drove him to a safe place. The rest of his friends and I left soon after. I went in a different direction and one that would leave me in a safe position but not far from the houses. From there I could call her cell phone and let her know of what I could see.
A fireman came out of there about 25 minutes later and came up to me and told me the main house had been saved. He said the fireball came over the roof of the green shed you will see in the videos and went over the roof of the house and down on the ground in front of the house as if my magic. The firemen were between the shed and the house at the time and he said it was like being trapped inside the fireball with no where to go. The 3 choppers had pounded the two houses with water while all this was taking place. Those guys are good. They can drop so much water and not damage anything on the house.
I was told about 5 minutes later that house number two was also saved.
What can I say but thanks to the brave fire fighters and those 3 chopper pilots.
I will group the video links into three groups.
1. The lead up to the main event
2. The main event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYq46nRNRFQ
3. After the fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGGd05V8WQLast edited by Xzessperated; 01-06-2010, 10:15 PM.Several boats in various stages of destructionComment
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Just glad your family are all good and the houses survived , the Greenies all over Aust have some explaining to do concerning not being allowed to back burn or run stock in bush area's to keep down the fire load!!Comment
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Andy the props are here. Mate you got them so sharp. June is sporting a lovely Brazilian after testing them for sharpness.
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Glad you like the props, I think we all want to know how that 2047 goes on your SAW rigger.Andy the props are here. Mate you got them so sharp. June is sporting a lovely Brazilian after testing them for sharpness.
As for the Brazilian, how about some pics????????Comment
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Thats why we need the pics of June's Brazilian !!!!!wake up you green wankersComment
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Paddy, great to here the house was OK. I was not aware of your plight. MY jest was meant to state they sure can puy out fires but are useless in starting a barby It was probably in bad taste.
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No Douggie. You would not have been aware as the only one I told I was going to the fire was Andy. It all happened too quick. My sister had 2 sleepless nights waiting for the fire to come and so she wanted me to come so she could sleep. As it turned out I got 90 minutes sleep and she got nothing because she was too worried.
It would have to be very bad to be bad taste on the mainland of Australia
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You Douggie ?? No I do not believe it!!It was probably in bad taste
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Andy here are the pictures provided by one of the fireman at my sisters house. He said he thought he was going to die as the fireball got closer.
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Close call mate, glad you are alive. Now have you amended your Will yet ? You know how much I just love a fast rigger............................Comment
we need pictures!
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