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Originally Posted by scagman
Sorry to hear about your uncles house Simon. Glad they're all safe.
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Originally Posted by mithrandir
Sorry to hear that Simon.
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Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne
Sorry about your Uncles home Simon.
Just watched the devastation on the news.
Justin.
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Originally Posted by Brian3.
Sorry to hear about your uncles loss Simon, it must be heartbreaking for him and his family. A very good friend of mine was lucky this time when the approaching fire front was halted less than 500m from his property. He and his wife were forced to flee, discretion coming sensibly before valour.
Brian3.
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It feels a little strange for me to give thanks on my uncles behalf, but thank you all for your thoughts.
In a sense my Aunt and Uncle are fortunate(!) in that they were at another home of theirs. The home that was destroyed was being prepared for subdivision and eventual sale but it was their home for ~40 years, so the emotional attachment would still be large.
The home also still contained many of their personal items that hadn't yet been transferred and can never be replaced.
They're both pretty cut-up that their large vinyl collection is now gone, including many rare Beatles and blues albums.
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Originally Posted by BPO
Hey! It's great to meet an Aussie lightning detectorer!
I operate the Omarama, NZ station.
The detector was up at the observatory at a little under 2,000m asl, but the intermittent nature of my Internet link drove me to transplant the station to the village below at around 430m asl. The detection rate's taken a bit of a hit, so I'm trying to remedy the internet issues up top so I can move the station back up there.
And thoughts to you guys battling fires. Good luck.
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Hey! Another Blitzer
Awesome.
I have met a few of the NZ guys on the NZWeather forum, but always good to meet another!
I have a second Red station that I had planned to set up at a farm in Nannup, around 300km south of Perth, however internet access is now an issue. I have trialled mobile broadband down there but it's a no go for any of the telco's that charge data by the kilobyte. There is good Telstra reception, but they charge in MegaByte blocks unfortunatelly
