Check loved ones

[campbell]

IN these heatwave conditions, can I ask to everyone in the Southern States. Please check to see your friends, neighbours, elderly relatives are safe and hydrated.
The elderly tend to stay locked in their house for safety concerns, no fans etc, and do die.

So, can you all just get off the computer for an hour and check those you know and love.

also the pets, they must be doing it tough.

 

[krusden]

Keep an eye on the fire service websites as well people. With the windy conditions I for one am concerned regarding bushfires and have found the best way to calm my nerves (i live in the adelaide foothills with a moderate fire threat IMO) is to check the cfs website at www.cfs.sa.gov.au & the tasmanian fire service www.fire.tas.gov.au ( i'm a former tasmanian) as they give more up to date info than the news websites

 

[red+black]

Not sure how Tasmania is relevant to the current heatwave.

For Victoria: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/

 

[Upgrayedd]

Dont mean to be rude or anything, but people have been exposed to greater heat for longer periods of time every year...

 

[krusden]

Not sure how Tasmania is relevant to the current heatwave.

For Victoria: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/

It's relatively hot and windy down there.

 

[Hasus]

Dont mean to be rude or anything, but people have been exposed to greater heat for longer periods of time every year...

Do you have dyslexia or something? In Adelaide it hit 45.7 yesterday and it was 42 degrees at 4am this morning, I think it's about the 44/45 mark outside now. People who live here aren't exposed to that kind of heat for long periods of time, hence the OP. It will remain this way until about Tuesday next week.

Have a look on the BoM website

 

[Falchoon]

Dont mean to be rude or anything, but people have been exposed to greater heat for longer periods of time every year...

so they'd be accustomed to it?

It's those that aren't that are most susceptible.

 

[RooBuoy]

It's too hot to go outside. I'll check on them when it isn't so hot.

 

[TigerCleavage]

Not sure how Tasmania is relevant to the current heatwave.

For Victoria: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/

I'm in Tassie at the moment, 37 right now where I am and the fire chopper is doing the rounds every hour. Very dry and no breeze where I am but in other parts of the state there are strong winds. Lots of little pricks trying to start fires here lately so the fire and police services are doing rotating scouts of hotspot areas.

 

[rdhopkins2]

If you spot anyone chucking cigarette butts out the window, call the EPA. Get the number plate details and dob 'em right in, try and find cigarette butt and extinguish.

No respect these scum. Don't even think about bushfires. Idiots.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Anyone who sees a fire is urged to ring Triple Zero, while butt tossers can be dobbed in to the Department of Environment and Climate Change on 131 555.

Penalties for throwing cigarette butts during the bushfire season include fines of up to $5,500 and up to 12 months imprisonment.

And please keep checking on the welfare of family, friends and neighbours.

 

[bigpapagman]

how do they prove that you do it?

i mean i could just ring up and say your number plate.

how do they prove you did/did not do it?


seems like a bit of a witch hunt to me.

 

[krusden]

how do they prove that you do it?

i mean i could just ring up and say your number plate.

how do they prove you did/did not do it?


seems like a bit of a witch hunt to me.

Happened to my uncle. Council worker took his number plate when he tossed the butt out the window. Got the fine and quit the smokes after that.

 

[red+black]

It's relatively hot and windy down there.

Yeah I hadn't noticed till I saw Tassie recorded it's highest temperature yesterday. But I didn't think Hobart had been too bad lately.

 

[bigpapagman]

Happened to my uncle. Council worker took his number plate when he tossed the butt out the window. Got the fine and quit the smokes after that.

so it's their word vs. yours.


so if i hate you i can just ring up and say you tossed a dart out the window and then you get a fine.



ridiculous.

 

[DB10]

I would, but all of mine live in England and Scotland where it is barely above freezing at the moment. They'd just laugh at me. Bastards.

 

[CrazyQ]

This shit aint hot.

Get over it, we're not in a ****ing volcano.

 

[Kerrby]

If one of them die, i'm sure they'll call me.

 

[tess]

My family must have full faith in me as full time Carer for my elderly mother who lives with Dementia as not one of them have bothered to call and see how she is copping.

 

[Ghostwriter]

I'm feeding the stray cats in the neighbourhood, putting out a bowl of milk morning and night, also have a drum full of water for the birds to drink, and am keeping the sprinklers going all day for the garden and snails, worms etc.
Should I be doing anything else?

 

[TigerCleavage]

I'm feeding the stray cats in the neighbourhood, putting out a bowl of milk morning and night, also have a drum full of water for the birds to drink, and am keeping the sprinklers going all day for the garden and snails, worms etc.
Should I be doing anything else?

 

[Monkster]

Dont mean to be rude or anything, but people have been exposed to greater heat for longer periods of time every year...

Not in Victoria they haven't, first time since records started that there have been 3 consecutive days over 43 degrees

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Yeah I hadn't noticed till I saw Tassie recorded it's highest temperature yesterday. But I didn't think Hobart had been too bad lately.

Hobart wasn't but there have been a few 40+ in the north-east, including Fingal; right next to the Rossarden fires; and Scamander, which saw a few houses lost in recent summers.

 

[Vince Van Mackay]

This shit aint hot.

Get over it, we're not in a ****ing volcano.

Wow, what are you, an African American Gangsta or something

Go bust a cap in your Air Conditioner then.

 

[thebiff]

Anyone who sees a fire is urged to ring Triple Zero, while butt tossers can be dobbed in to the Department of Environment and Climate Change on 131 555.

Penalties for throwing cigarette butts during the bushfire season include fines of up to $5,500 and up to 12 months imprisonment.

And please keep checking on the welfare of family, friends and neighbours.

haha all they will do is say they didnt do it and will get off every single time, you cant prove it unless you got video evidence and if your doing that I think the problem goes a little deeper.