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Mornin' all
Hope all is well north of the equator these days.
We had a fire go through our place about two weeks ago. Extraordinarily early in the season. Climate change?
Most of our firebreaks held despite the 25 knot winds behind the fire. However fire broke through on the less well prepared boundaries on the steep escarpment. As The Boy and I were initially alone and had nobody to cover for us when we needed to refill the fire unit, it burned across. Luckily neighbours gathered in the evening and some bushfires units also made it up to us. While all this was happening my poor wife was stuck in quarrantine in Perth with a bout of COVID..
I spent 48 hours working non stop to try and contain the fire on our property and protect key assets. Most of the property burned although were were able to protect a couple of hundred acres around the airstrip and hangar.
We haven't had time to do a full assessment of what has happened yet, but I think because it was an early fire the burn was quite patchy. There was still a lot of water in the landscape on the floodplains which might have broken the up the fire and protected some areas. Even in the high country woodlands the impact of the fire will be much less than a more intense burn happening later in the season.
This was the first fire that got into us for five years and my wife was quite upset, but to see the positive side, things could have been much much worse.
Oddly enough, well into dry season conditions now, we just had more than an inch of rain yesterday. Bizarre. What's happening to the climate?
Best to all
Alan
Hope all is well north of the equator these days.
We had a fire go through our place about two weeks ago. Extraordinarily early in the season. Climate change?
Most of our firebreaks held despite the 25 knot winds behind the fire. However fire broke through on the less well prepared boundaries on the steep escarpment. As The Boy and I were initially alone and had nobody to cover for us when we needed to refill the fire unit, it burned across. Luckily neighbours gathered in the evening and some bushfires units also made it up to us. While all this was happening my poor wife was stuck in quarrantine in Perth with a bout of COVID..
I spent 48 hours working non stop to try and contain the fire on our property and protect key assets. Most of the property burned although were were able to protect a couple of hundred acres around the airstrip and hangar.
We haven't had time to do a full assessment of what has happened yet, but I think because it was an early fire the burn was quite patchy. There was still a lot of water in the landscape on the floodplains which might have broken the up the fire and protected some areas. Even in the high country woodlands the impact of the fire will be much less than a more intense burn happening later in the season.
This was the first fire that got into us for five years and my wife was quite upset, but to see the positive side, things could have been much much worse.
Oddly enough, well into dry season conditions now, we just had more than an inch of rain yesterday. Bizarre. What's happening to the climate?
Best to all
Alan