Random Things on Your Mind (Part 5)

[brucetiki]

Can someone please explain why we are having Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

It is a US tradition and comes on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November (and I’ll be there yippee doing my bit for their economy).

We need some local versions of the brawls associated with Black Friday

I don’t get Black Friday either. Our equivalent has always been Boxing Day. At least with Boxing Day you can get cheap Christmas decorations for next year.

 

[jenny61_99]

Can someone please explain why we are having Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

It is a US tradition and comes on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November (and I’ll be there yippee doing my bit for their economy).

ANy opportunity to make a $$$$.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[GreyCrow]

Well done AmericanCrow

 

[AmericanCrow]

Well done AmericanCrow

I pretty much figured everyone knew you and I were devastatingly handsome, intelligent and loyal

but good you reminded them

 

[AmericanCrow]

52nd, Canada’s the 51st

Great, you don't mind if I move down do you?

 

[WaynesWorld19]

This technology era opens up so many more challenges for parents ....some obvious, some not so

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[brucetiki]

Looks like the fire in the hills is going to be a particularly devastating one.

CFS map shows about a dozen house fires in the emergency alert area alone, with a massive watch and act area around it.

SA Country Fire Service

The CFS serves South Australian communities through dedicated volunteers delivering professional fire and rescue services to outer metropolitan, regional and rural South Australia.

www.cfs.sa.gov.au

A house was also destroyed in the Northern Expressway fire up in Angle Vale earlier today as well.

And it looks like there 3 major fires in the Maitland emergency warning area.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Dry lightning strikes predicted this arvo too

Could be very nasty

 

[brucetiki]

New fire on the Northern Expressway - I suspect that was one caused by lightning.

The wind change could be more of a hinderance than a help with the Cuddlee Creek fire

 

[FR0GGY]

Got part of my business up in lobethal currently, no idea if it still exists.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Someone who flew into Adelaide last night posted this shot of the Adelaide Hills



Another friend of mine has had to evacuate their property near Angle Vale

 

[FR0GGY]

Someone who flew into Adelaide last night posted this shot of the Adelaide Hills

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Another friend of mine has had to evacuate their property near Angle Vale

You can’t even imagine how they can fight that.

 

[hey shorty]

The Cudlee fire has turned on itself and is heading back at Birdwood and Gumeracha.

Getting almost hourly updates from the folks, Pinery was a close shave for them.... this could be as bad.

 

[hey shorty]

You can’t even imagine how they can fight that.

They don't.

They try to get ahead of it rather than go in there, in that area it's suicide tofight it.

Pinery happened when we were OS last time, and here we are again.

 

[FR0GGY]

They don't.

They try to get ahead of it rather than go in there, in that area it's suicide tofight it.

Pinery happened when we were OS last time, and here we are again.

It’s a lot worse than that fire according to one of my cfs mates.
War zone

 

[brucetiki]

Pinery was on flat ground. Cuddle Creek is in hilly ground with fair amounts of it inaccessible.

I think this is the catastrophic hills fire everyone's been warning us about since Ash Wednesday.

Having a look at the map on the CFS website yesterday I saw 25 building fire icons in the area that was covered by the emergency warning (and that's just the one's the CFS would be aware of). I don't think we're going to see how catastrophic this has been for some time.

 

[hey shorty]

Pinery was on flat ground. Cuddle Creek is in hilly ground with fair amounts of it inaccessible.

I think this is the catastrophic hills fire everyone's been warning us about since Ash Wednesday.

Having a look at the map on the CFS website yesterday I saw 25 building fire icons in the area that was covered by the emergency warning (and that's just the one's the CFS would be aware of). I don't think we're going to see how catastrophic this has been for some time.

Nah, the eastern side of the Hills remained largely untouched.

If a fire got into Stirling, Bridgewater etc..... that would be biblical. A couple mates lost sheds and a lot of land in the last couple of days but it could've been worse.

Heart goes out to the Charleston residents family who lost their life.

 

[FR0GGY]

Was let through tonight to pick up my equipment from the main st of Lobethal all was fine apart from a bit of ash.
The part of town that I saw was fine, the outskirts not so.
Saw about 5 buildings gone from the freeway to lobethal.
Plenty of burnt paddocks though and a lot right up to houses.
Amazing job they have done to save what the have.
A few trees still burning around the place.
Power came back onto lobethal and half of Woodside at about 4pm this arvo.

 

[brucetiki]

72 homes destroyed so far.

More than 70 homes destroyed in Adelaide Hills bushfire

The number of homes destroyed in the Cudlee Creek bushfire in the Adelaide Hills shoots up to 72.

mobile.abc.net.au

 

[brucetiki]

At least 84 houses destroyed now.

Meanwhile Foodland will provide $500 gift cards to anyone who has lost their home in the fires. https://glamadelaide.com.au/foodland-to-donate-500-to-families-who-lost-homes-in-sa-bushfires/

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[hey shorty]

3 more houses gone in Gumeracha today, embers falling around both my parents places.

Meanwhile I'm in Quebec and there is snow as far as the eye can see.

Hard to comprehend

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]