goes for a while, but gives a understanding of why its taking so long to restore services.
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Why do we let people live in such dangerous areas ? Fires and storms fark the place, yet building permits are still issued. At least Melbourne Water has flood level maps which stops houses being built where flooding will happen.
We had a house in Kinglake which we “fire-proofed”, neighbour’s did nothing and in some parts it was obviously a disaster waiting to happen. It did, lives lost properties gone , even our old “fir-proof “ place.
Maybe the Dandenong etc should just be for walking and picnics.
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People I know have 32 acres on the western side of Port Fairy…one side of the road is flood zone, behind them is fire zone.
How many houses are built there ?
Yowsers… but LOL at the car that drives into the tree at 7:20 in.
NSW banned property developers from party donations, but it is the enemy within, those who get elected, ranging from Councils to government.
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Maybe 15 to 20. Albert Rd, which is in line to be the new highway route to get the dual carriageway to the border. I’m alluding to the part which runs parallel to the highway. It runs in a D shape.
We live in Foster, South Gippsland. Took 2 days to cut a path for my dad to be able to get out of his property. Car got totalled and only got power back last night. Couldn’t believe the size of trees that had been ripped out…Hardest part was no phone reception either so made communication or understanding what was happening even worse. Overall we consider ourselves very lucky.
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It’s been a long while, I suspect, since many new greenfield developments have been approved in the real Dandenongs suburbs like Sassafras, Olinda etc. The houses that are already there are probably going to remain the only ones.
No level of ‘fireproofing’ would have saved Kinglake. People I know slightly lost their house in St Andrews on Black Saturday. A couple of years later, they showed me their collection of what survived. Absolutely everything left from the old house was a plumbing fitting that was a couple of feet underground, and a cutlery set that had melted and fused into a single lump. Even the damn ceramic toilet bowl had been reduced to powder. Quite literally, a nuke might not have been so comprehensively destructive.
You can’t fireproof against that sort of thing. You just have to accept that humans are relatively small in comparison when Mother Nature rolls up her sleeves and flexes her biceps. You can’t eliminate the risk, there’s simply no way to do it other than paving over the whole world with concrete and then living in a bunker. So you plan ahead, and you buy generators, and you have a bushfire plan in place, and you acknowledge the chance, or possibility, or even likelihood that some day something will go wrong.
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Father in law has a property on mt best he only just got power back today.
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Hard times for you and your family, hope things are getting better and you get all the assistance you need.
Your poor Dad, must have been awful for him.
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Brutal.
Where’s this Crumbs? Sorry I wasn’t sure if you were saying there was lots of damage around Foster or you went from there to help your dad somewhere else…
In laws used to live out of Foster, and we go down to Walkerville a fair bit…
My dad lives in Foster North and I live in Foster heading out towards the prom. The pics are from my dads place. The whole area took a beating.
Ok, ta for info.In laws used to be other side of Foster, down the far end of O’grady’s ridge rd.
Might take the chainsaw next time we go to Walkerville…
My dad lives on O’gradys ridge road! That pic is from the road…Couldn’t get in either side or Mcgleads road.
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Ok makes sense. I checked and where they were was due west of town. I always thought of it as more south than it is. They were above a massive dam to their SE and they were on the other (west) side of the road. But they got too old and came back to melbourne 10 years ago.
Played golf on Sunday and was shocked by the amount of large trees that had collapsed.