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Title: February Dragon
Post by Captain Nemo on Feb 2^nd, 2025 at 10:23am

The smell of smoke today out in the SE suburbs of Melbourne.

Probably the bushfires in the Grampians out west.

A reminder that February is usually the worst month for bushfires around here. :(

Title: Re: February Dragon
Post by Leroy on Feb 2^nd, 2025 at 10:33am

Being old I have stories and I tell them.

My father in law came to Australia in in the early 50's and went straight out into the bush working in a saw mill. When working in the bush the first thing they did was to clear an area and dig a big ditch. When bush fires would occur all the workers would gather in the ditch and sit out the fires. There was never anything in the news about the fires and nobody even knew about them because when they would go into a town nobody knew about the fires.

Title: Re: February Dragon
Post by Grappler Deep State Feller on Feb 20^th, 2025 at 1:00am

I love the smell of bushfires in the morning....