The distances are mind blowing a very frightening situation, l went to Altoona Pennsylvania where a coal mine had been burning for 30yrs the town had been evacuated houses dismantled the tarmac road had a life of it's own and would move with the...
Class of 56? yer still wet behind the ears :p. Went to pick up my prescription tablets from the pharmacy yesterday, the pharmacist asked me my birthdate which is printed on the packet. I said it was the 24th of the bladybla, 1854. She smiled...
We can, thank you. Not one single building in town was touched, many of the chopper pilots fighting the fire saying that there was no need ever to have have been evacuated. But there ya go.
The evac lasted three weeks. I was in Calgary anyway...
Can we assume that you managed to move back into your place and it survived OK?
Must have been frightening.
At the mo we have no modus operandi set up if we had to be evacuated. Wondering if we ought to set one up.
Need some ideas for numbers, dots etc fo me clock, need to be 5cm if numbers but anythin will do, something different.
Used an old Mini wheel disc for the centre
We have many, many forest fires in these parts (and 500,000 hectares burned so far this year in the NWT alone). It is hard to believe until you see it, but a fire will burn all winter long in the arctic cold under several feet of snow. You can be...
Spent a few hours under me Landy today, major overhaul of the front suspension. Today's target was to clean up all the nuts and bolts on one side and spray them with penetrating stuff in preparation for replacing various parts (which I have had...
According to this, the dewdrop fire thing is very theoretical, and unlikely.
Just in case anyone gives a flip!
https://www.foxnews.com/science/can-a-water-droplet-cause-a-fire
Velly, velly intelesting!!!
I'd a thort, if the dew was on the ground then nowt would be dry enough to catch fire, but if you say so.....
Carn elp thinking that with the billions of dewdrops there must be every morn then stuff should be on fire...
I've been to Cologne, once, for the Carnaval. According to W who used to have to go there on business all the time, Cologne is the most boring town ever. Only two things relieve it, Carnaval where they all go flipping mad for a week, and the...