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Neddy Seagoon posted:Stay safe if you're in/around Melbourne, because hoo-boy is this a rough storm tonight. NSW is copping it as well:  Edit: the NSW Incident Alerts FB page issued a warning early this morning that there was a danger of severe thunderstorms and supercells developing later and a whole bunch of galaxy brains went "But it's sunny outside right now!!!" and started screaming that they were scaremongering liars, LOL
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Stay safe if you're in/around Melbourne, because hoo-boy is this a rough storm tonight. This evening there was a [FLASH]"thou...." screamer. Reckon if I was outside I'd have smelt it. God I love a good storm.
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Feb 18, 2020 10:32
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It’s been really humid here in Sydney today, no signs of a storm on the north shore yet. I wouldn’t mind a storm if it broke the humidity for a while.
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Helith posted:It’s been really humid here in Sydney today, no signs of a storm on the north shore yet. I wouldn’t mind a storm if it broke the humidity for a while. Wollongong is currently getting smashed but there's some fairly heavy poo poo heading directly for Sydney as well  http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR712.loop.shtml#skip
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Helith posted:It’s been really humid here in Sydney today, no signs of a storm on the north shore yet. I wouldn’t mind a storm if it broke the humidity for a while. The storms from the mountains tend to head 2 ways depending on which valley they fall into as they head over the mountains. If they fall into the grose which is to the north they hit richmond hard before sweeping through the hills and north shore. The others head towards Waragamba and then hit Campbeltown and the Southern Suburbs. Tonights storms are heading in both directions currently and Orange has copped 30mm of rain in a short amount of time.
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I’m glad Orange is getting some rain, they really need it, hopefully the storms lingers over there and fills up some dams for them.
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The current thunder rumble is impressive for it's house rumbling abilities. We'll see what the actual front brings with it storm wise but We're already above 700mm of rain for this month in the mountains which is half of our annual rainfall in the space of two weeks.
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I'm currently watching a storm head from bathurst to the mountains. If I stand on the back deck I can see the lightning from the storms to the south which will bone Southern Sydney as it heads towards the coast. The mountain is displeased with the death of Holden
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Humphreys posted:The mountain is displeased with the death of Holden
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Oh lawd, that storms coming. We have a clear view out south west towards the Blue Mountains from our place and the sky is like a strobe light with all the lightning flashes. So many, I have never seen so much lightning at once and some very ominous thunder too. It’ll be on us in about an hour I reckon. Not me, but this is the lightning I’m seeing https://twitter.com/medwards87/status/1229728491681148928?s=21 Helith fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Seems like the last of it is passing over Penrith now, got about 12mm in 45 mins.
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Ok, that moved quick, it’s on us now, strong winds, heavy rain and crazy lightning. So much for an hour to get here, it’s here!
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The ABC have done an excellent retrospective on the fires and floods using satellite imagery, well worth a look. A nation torched and scarred
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Helith posted:The ABC have done an excellent retrospective on the fires and floods using satellite imagery, well worth a look. 
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Helith posted:The ABC have done an excellent retrospective on the fires and floods using satellite imagery, well worth a look. they missed an opportunity for the smoke cloud in chile and argentina  
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Helith posted:The ABC have done an excellent retrospective on the fires and floods using satellite imagery, well worth a look. That's a really solid article. That's also some crazy Chile pics.
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Laserface posted:unrelated to bushfires but there was also a french couple who lived/worked there too. They were permaculture hippies. They didnt wear sunglasses because according to them it stops your body producing melanin (because your brain cant see how bright the sun is) and thus does not protect you against skin cancer. UV cataracts are fun.
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The nearest comic store to me posted this on FB about some people donating unwanted pokemon cards to some kids who lost everything in the fires: In talking with the shop they are telling everyone to get involved through your own local stores to make this countrywide. I spent all morning sealing up 25 envelopes. Not doubles, just all my old pokemon cards seeing I have no need/want and don't even know why I have them.
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Haha, I got a YouTube ad that said "why is progress so important to Rio Tinto" [footage of a girl crying happily as her hearing aid is turned on in a doctor's office] "because it's what makes copper... sound like family Rio Tinto"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Wollongong is currently getting smashed but there's some fairly heavy poo poo heading directly for Sydney as well Yeah that one took out my Foxtel cable. Cable TV + Landline + Internet. Bang!
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The Peccadillo posted:Haha, I got a YouTube ad that said "why is progress so important to Rio Tinto" Quick! Get the copper out of the walls! Rio Tinto
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How much copper do you think there is in a hearing aid? Half a gram? Probably less.
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goatface posted:How much copper do you think there is in a hearing aid? Half a gram? Probably less. A modern hearing aid weighs about 2 grams, it's probably around the 0.1g mark. During the mining boom, all of the electronics companies went "poo poo these metals we need to use are loving expensive, lets stop being so wasteful and pursue efficiencies and use as little as we possibly can". Then the commodities prices tanked in 2013-14 and all those companies went "sweet, not only are we using a lot less of it, but it's a lot cheaper as well!"
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Sounds like they have freight trains running over the mountains again after the track washed away in the rain. Passenger trains aren’t supposed to start again till next Monday or so. I read somewhere they’re attempting to get all of the stuck carriages past the landslide at leura so that they can service the trains properly after they’ve sat for two weeks with no way of maintaining them. The trains running further than Mt Victoria still aren’t running after the bushfires in December burnt all of the line side infrastructure.
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'Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires quote:...
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Proud Goon Charity GenerOZity.com.au has raised 69k for Fire and Rescue... every cent was given CFA/RFS 
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The fires in Victoria have finally been contained https://twitter.com/DanielAndrewsMP/status/1232898782389395458
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Don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a thing that seems relevant - coming from one of the big fossil fuel funding banks: JP Morgan Special Report Risky business: the climate and the macroeconomy https://rebellion.earth/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/JPM_Risky_business__the_climate_and_the_macroeconomy_2020-01-14_3230707.pdf.pdf "Climate change is a slow moving process, but it is no less dangerous for that. It is likely to be one of the key defining features of the coming decades. The longer action is delayed the more costly it will be to deal with the issues. Moreover, a delayed policy response opens us up to potentially catastrophic outcomes, which might be impossible to reverse. Empirical estimates based on the variability of the climate in recent decades likely massively underestimate the effects. We cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened."
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Hello all, Sorry it has taken so long for me to make a post, sadly life got busy post new years and frankly I was feeling the fatigue from constantly dealing with the nonstop news feeds of crisis after crisis. I was planning on doing a big retrospective post with stats and number about the cost of the fires to my country and it's people but good forums friend Helith (who has been an amazing contributor to the thread, thank you so much bud) has linked the below link to the ABC article doing the same thing but with flashy graphics and videos. You should read that if you haven't: Helith posted:The ABC have done an excellent retrospective on the fires and floods using satellite imagery, well worth a look. To all of you Goons who donated to the various causes and supported my country in its time of crisis: thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your generosity to strangers is, as always, see inspiring and while you will likely never meet the people you have helped please know every individual who contributed to helping us recover from this literal Hell-On-Earth will have the gratitude of the nation. I don't really know what we to say. If any other AusGoons have something to post please do. Apart from that I guess we will all see eachother in 4 months time when fire season returns. 
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Gridlocked posted:Hello all, Thanks to you bud for doing the thread! and also to everyone who contributed and donated and made the thread great, we love you all  I reckon we should all meet up in the coronavirus isolation/quarantine threads when they get going lol. We have gone from having to stay in because of bushfires and smoke, to staying in because we need to guard our TP hoards from the marauding virus. See you all next bushfire season if we survive the coronapocalypse 
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