define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":313,"date":"2002-12-08T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2002-12-08T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T13:00:00","slug":"but-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/313\/","title":{"rendered":"but anyway .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i wanted to post something about the fires that are still blazing all across Sydney. this morning i woke up to smoke everywhere. all day now the whole city has been covered in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacecowgirl.nu\/photos\/081202.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">thick fog-like haze<\/a>. though they had said today was going to be &#8216;hell&#8217;, there&#8217;s good news that conditions will ease up compared to yesterday. i had ventured out early this morning to finish off a few things, but the smoke was just too much for me (and alot of people) so i came back and stayed at home and did what i could with whatever i had. i really can&#8217;t complain though, at least i don&#8217;t have to sit on my roof with a hose before the fire comes streaming towards my house. i&#8217;ll put up with some smoke.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacecowgirl.nu\/photos\/081202_03.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>there&#8217;s only 2 more weeks to my much needed break from work, and i can&#8217;t wait to just do something fun for once. when <i>was<\/i> my last break? april? not sure what i&#8217;ll get up to though, would of been cool to have seen Regan but that&#8217;ll come in time anyway. last year i went away up to couran cove with my girl friends, i think this year i&#8217;ll just stay put.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s just an article that i saw on the internet that i wanted to keep archived aswell. <br \/>\nalso .. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\/common\/imagedata\/0,3600,224347,00.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is  a map of the sydney fires &#8211; to place me on the map, i&#8217;m just about near Glenorie and Kenthurst (actually right next to the K in Kenthurst)<\/p>\n<p><b>The NSW bushfires at a glance<\/b><br \/>\nDecember 07, 2002<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Bushfires at a glance:<\/p>\n<p>HOMES DESTROYED:<\/p>\n<p>+ No further homes have been destroyed since Friday, however fire authorities revised the tally to 49 homes destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>+ One house was destroyed in Medlow Bath, in the Blue Mountains this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>+ North of Sydney, 36 homes razed around <b>Glenorie<\/b>, Maroota and Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p>+ In Sydney&#8217;s south, two homes lost at Sandy Point and one at Picnic Point.<\/p>\n<p>+ In the Hunter region, one house destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>+ West of Sydney, one house burnt to the ground in the Blue Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>FIREFIGHTERS:<\/p>\n<p>+ More than 4,500 firefighters on the ground<\/p>\n<p>+ One aircrane and a convoy of 15 firetrucks with about 100 firefighters were diverted from other areas to help fight fires in the Blue Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>+ NSW Rural Fire Service firefighters also joined by NSW Fire Brigade, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and State Forests.<\/p>\n<p>+ 94 aircraft battling blazes, including two helitankers.<\/p>\n<p>+ &#8216;Elvis&#8217;, a helitanker with a 9000 litres capacity, was due in Sydney tomorrow and expected to be in action by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>FIRES:<\/p>\n<p>+ At least 110,000 hectares burnt out since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>+ About 80 separate bushfires still raging.<\/p>\n<p>+ Major hotspot today was north of Sydney, near Brooklyn and Berowra.<\/p>\n<p>CASUALTIES:<\/p>\n<p>+ An 81-year-old man found dead inside his burnt caravan at Maroota on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>+ About six firefighters have suffered minor injuries including broken limbs, burns and smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>COST:<\/p>\n<p>+ NSW Premier Bob Carr said the bushfire bill this year would be in excess of $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>POWER:<\/p>\n<p>+ 1000 residents in northern Sydney remained without power, some since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>+ Reports that up to two-thirds of residents in the Baulkham Hills area were without phone services.<\/p>\n<p>ASSISTED:<\/p>\n<p>+ Since Wednesday, the NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS) has operated 17 evacuation centres and received aid requests from 2000 people.<\/p>\n<p>+ The DOCS Helping Hand fund has already provided $40,000 worth of aid and today had another 12 payments of $10,000 in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>+ Evacuation centres were today operating at Castle Hill RSL, Wiseman&#8217;s Ferry Bowling Club and Thornleigh Baptist Centre, and at Gosford RSL, on the central coast, with Gosford Racetrack and Nowra Showground, on the south coast, on standby.<\/p>\n<p>TRANSPORT:<\/p>\n<p>+ Great Western Highway at Medlow Bath was currently closed in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>+ One southbound lane of the F3 Freeway linking Sydney and Newcastle currently closed.<\/p>\n<p>+ Northern rail line out of Sydney closed until at least 2am (AEDT) Monday, substitute bus services have been introduced.<\/p>\n<p>+ Pacific Highway heading north from Sydney closed in both directions between Brooklyn and Berowra. <\/p>\n<p>+ Old Northern Road closed at Maroota in Sydney&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p>+ Berowra Waters Road closed at Berowra Heights.<\/p>\n<p>+ South of Sydney, Heathcote Road was shut between St Georges Crescent and New Illawarra Road.<\/p>\n<p>+ On the mid north coast, the Lakes Way was shut between Bulahdelah and Forster.<\/p>\n<p>+ At Milton in the Shoalhaven area of the south coast, Clyde Ridge Road closed at the junction of Milton Bruman Road, and Milton Bruman Road closed at Monkey Mountain Road.<\/p>\n<p>+ Further south at Batemans Bay, the Western Distributor was shut at the junction of the Kings Highway; Lyons Creek Road and River Road were both closed where they cross the Kings Highway.<\/p>\n<p>+ Ku-ring-gai National Park and Ku-ring-gai Chase Road closed to both directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i wanted to post something about the fires that are still blazing all across Sydney. this morning i woke up to smoke everywhere. all day now the whole city has been covered in a thick fog-like haze. though they had said today was going to be &#8216;hell&#8217;, there&#8217;s good news that conditions will ease up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}