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    From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to All on Thu Feb 22 22:17:46 2024

    Hello everybody!

    Bushfire in my neck of the planet! I live on the eastern side of Lake Burrumbeet (Bottom Center).
    It might look like a long way away, but it's only 13Klm away at Beaufort.

    My main Amiga's (A1200, A3000) are packed in the car with cloths and other items.
    I'll put my Linux PC and server in tomorrow along with the BBS machine if conditions change..

    A "Watch and Act" means get ready to leave. The Grey area's on the map, are what actually has been burnt.


    http://tinyurl.com/bdfks77m

    3:633/280 is a VPS in Melbourne, so will still be online! #0-)


    Stephen


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  • From deon@3:633/509 to Stephen Walsh on Thu Feb 22 23:22:45 2024
    Re: Bushfire
    By: Stephen Walsh to All on Thu Feb 22 2024 10:17 pm

    Hey,

    3:633/280 is a VPS in Melbourne, so will still be online! #0-)

    Unless something happens in Melbourne :)

    Good luck dude, I've been lucky to not ever be in your situation, nor would I want to be... Fingers cross the wind does a 180, and the heavons open up...



    ...лоеп
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  • From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to deon on Sat Feb 24 12:23:20 2024

    Hello deon!

    22 Feb 24 23:22, you wrote to me:

    3:633/280 is a VPS in Melbourne, so will still be online! #0-)

    Unless something happens in Melbourne :)

    Good luck dude, I've been lucky to not ever be in your situation, nor would I want to be... Fingers cross the wind does a 180, and the
    heavons open up...

    Luckly I was in a "Keep Informed" area...

    For the otheer guys in the net:
    There are four basic level's, with each one being worse than the last:

    Keep Informed.
    Watch & Act (Get ready to leave/pack).
    Leave now.
    Too Late, bunker down.


    About 1am they changed my area to a safe area, not under threat.
    The fire moved in a North West direction when the change came though. It was puhsing toward Ballarat before then.
    So in the end we didn't need to leave, but it was better to be ready...

    There hase been three bushfires in the region over the past three weeks. Only the cuurent one is still doing damage.

    To the south in the scarsdale area was one last week (Grey area on map), that was also the first time back in the 90's that
    I went though the very real experiance of living though a big bushfire. It burnt our back paddock.

    This one being very close to home was enough for me to get things packed and be ready to leave....




    Stephen


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