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Old 09-01-2013, 08:54 AM
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Snake Valley fires

To all our friends at the Snake Valley Astronomical Society, I hope that your clubrooms and property survived the fires last night. More importantly, I hope that everyone stayed safe!!
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Old 09-01-2013, 09:08 AM
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Anyone heard from Ken?

I'd heard the fires were "near Ballarat" - but saw on The Age this morning that they were in Snake Valley!

Hope that our SVAA friends out that way are all unharmed and ok - but has anyone heard that our mate Ken's ok??

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To all our friends at the Snake Valley Astronomical Society, I hope that your clubrooms and property survived the fires last night. More importantly, I hope that everyone stayed safe!!
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Old 09-01-2013, 09:23 AM
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Heard from Ken, he has been out fighting fires for the last couple of days, fire missed his house and SVAS sheds by a couple of Kilometers.

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Old 09-01-2013, 10:00 AM
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Thats sort of a 'good news, bad news' thing. Good that Ken's place and the SVAA stuff is OK, bad about the fires and destruction.

Lets hope that the fire season comes to a very early end, its all a bit scary.
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Old 09-01-2013, 12:40 PM
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Glad to hear Ken is okay
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Old 09-01-2013, 06:35 PM
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Shock horror.

I'm away past Lakes Entrance and just heard of these fires at Snake Valley.

Glad to hear Ken and family are all safe.

I won't be making the scheduled SV Club Meeting this Friday, but hope those that do attend aren't effected by the fires and smoke. Last Year's January meeting was a blast !!!!

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Old 09-01-2013, 10:30 PM
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That's good news in part. Wondering the same.
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Old 10-01-2013, 08:36 AM
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I saw the news last night and I was also worried about the group. But it appears that in general our friends are OK.

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