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Woo! I have slept!
Okieday then. Sunday night I didn't end up going to bed until 4:30 (cos I'm a nut like that. The muses were attacking so had to obey them, as ya do) at which point Zed decided he wanted to go outside. So, opened the curtains, blinked a few times and went "Woah.... that's a fire." Bent down to look as far up the hill as the veranda would allow, still going "yep, that's a fire." There was some part at the back of my mind trying to justify this fire, thinking may~be someone was having a bonfire. At 4:30 in the morning. Yep. I'm not at my thinking best at 4:30am, which then begs the question as to why the hell I was still writing until five minutes ago, but yaknow.
Anyway. I pulled on uggies and dressing gown then went outside to investigate, cat in tow, and~ it wasn't quite as threatening as it looked from my room. Flames were only about knee-high save for this blaze up the hill a bit, and no trees were on fire, looked like just the pine needles and grass, and it was in a weird little strip. If there weren't trees in the way and it wasn't on a 45-degree slope I prolly could've jumped the thing quite easily.
Then proceeded to go and wake everyone up, starting with Mum and Dad. Mum's reaction, since they're on the bottom floor and have a different, more threatening view than from my room, was "O.O SHIT. This could be the end of us!" I think she was overreacting, personally. Dad's was to call 000, which was obviously not overreacting, cos d00d, bushfire. Colin's was "...Cool." Yeah. He had the same view as me, but still, "cool" wasn't my first thought upon seeing a somewhat threatening strip of fire bearing down on our house.
So yersh, Mum and Dad grabbed hoses and stuff and started squirting the little strip of fire that was coming down the hill while Colin and I went to wake up the person in the pink house next door to us. She's house sitting for the actual residents, so she'll have an interesting story to tell for when they get back =D;; I think she thought we were trying to break in at first. In a burgundy dressing gown and rose-print pjs.
me: *knocks on door hoping she'll wake up, even tho bedroom's on the other side of the house*
her: *wakes up!* *comes downstairs, looking suspiciously through door window thing*
me: *makes door-opening motions*
her: ...I'm not opening the door >>
me: ...Ah. Um. There's a fire. Right there *points behind house*
her: ...You're joking.
me: Nup, it's right there. I mean, right there
her: *opens door* Good heavens O.O
Mum: ASK THEM IF THEY'VE GOT A HOSE!
me: D'you have a hose?
her: Yep *dashes off now she's properly woken up*
And then~ the cavalry arrived =DD And drove past our driveway... Yep ^^; Then proceeded to make a vague attempt to do a u-ey in the cul-de-sac of our bottom driveway, which is not the easiest thing to do in a fire engine. More cavalry came up from the other direction, so I started running down the driveway to catch them before they went past it again, but someone (I was assuming Dad at the time, but turned out it was a fireman .-.;;) called out "Look out for the fire engines!" and~ I tripped. Heh. So now I have an ugly bruise on my knee and a less ugly but more painful one on my palm. Go figure. Trying to be helpful and fall over instead. Go 'narti go.
Once they started spraying water and foam and whatever else they spray over the fire, our collective hoses stopped working, so we just sat around and watched as more and more CFS people swarmed up the hill. Colin and I started gaguing this thing by the number of fire engines and flashing lights we got =3 Sum total: 6 fire engines, a water tanker, a CFS four-wheel-drive thing and two cop cars. Not sure what the cops were planning on doing, maybe catching an arsonist or something, I dunno, but they seemed incredibly cheery for having been woken up at 5am to attend a relatively small bushfire.
Certainly wasn't big enough to make the news, anyway--the CFS guy in the four-wheel-drive told us it was the third they'd attended just tonight, and eleventh since... Thursday, I think he said. Poor CFS guys *snugs them* Such a thankless job .-. Turned out that this one started because Ted (guy who lives up the hill from us) was having a burnoff on Sunday and evidently didn't quite put the whole thing out. The CFS guy blames the council tho, cos we have no~ hard rubbish collection save for the ONE that we had in February (ONE in the history of the Adelaide Hills Council), and it costs money to dump your stuff at the dump, so we burn it instead. Fire ban season got extended this year (again) and just got lifted last week. Why they decided to end fire ban season when we still haven't had rain, I dunno. But yeah, blaming the council works. We blame Ted and his hoarding >>
Finally, the fire got sufficiently doused and we went back to bed by about 6:30. One hour before I had to get up for uni. Go figure.
But yes, that was quite an exciting night/morning/whatever. We even got a mention on Nova =D Only in the form of a traffic report at 7:45, saying that the road was closed off except to residents (that's us! =DD), and the engines were all gone by 8 after having drenched the pine needles and everything to make sure they wouldn't catch again, so no more traffic reports, aww.
If Zed had decided he wanted to cooperate and actually go to sleep, we could've seriously been stuffed. Whether he wanted to go out to do kitty business or whether he was actually thinking "DANGER" I dunno, but we're vera thankful X3
Okieday then. Sunday night I didn't end up going to bed until 4:30 (cos I'm a nut like that. The muses were attacking so had to obey them, as ya do) at which point Zed decided he wanted to go outside. So, opened the curtains, blinked a few times and went "Woah.... that's a fire." Bent down to look as far up the hill as the veranda would allow, still going "yep, that's a fire." There was some part at the back of my mind trying to justify this fire, thinking may~be someone was having a bonfire. At 4:30 in the morning. Yep. I'm not at my thinking best at 4:30am, which then begs the question as to why the hell I was still writing until five minutes ago, but yaknow.
Anyway. I pulled on uggies and dressing gown then went outside to investigate, cat in tow, and~ it wasn't quite as threatening as it looked from my room. Flames were only about knee-high save for this blaze up the hill a bit, and no trees were on fire, looked like just the pine needles and grass, and it was in a weird little strip. If there weren't trees in the way and it wasn't on a 45-degree slope I prolly could've jumped the thing quite easily.
Then proceeded to go and wake everyone up, starting with Mum and Dad. Mum's reaction, since they're on the bottom floor and have a different, more threatening view than from my room, was "O.O SHIT. This could be the end of us!" I think she was overreacting, personally. Dad's was to call 000, which was obviously not overreacting, cos d00d, bushfire. Colin's was "...Cool." Yeah. He had the same view as me, but still, "cool" wasn't my first thought upon seeing a somewhat threatening strip of fire bearing down on our house.
So yersh, Mum and Dad grabbed hoses and stuff and started squirting the little strip of fire that was coming down the hill while Colin and I went to wake up the person in the pink house next door to us. She's house sitting for the actual residents, so she'll have an interesting story to tell for when they get back =D;; I think she thought we were trying to break in at first. In a burgundy dressing gown and rose-print pjs.
me: *knocks on door hoping she'll wake up, even tho bedroom's on the other side of the house*
her: *wakes up!* *comes downstairs, looking suspiciously through door window thing*
me: *makes door-opening motions*
her: ...I'm not opening the door >>
me: ...Ah. Um. There's a fire. Right there *points behind house*
her: ...You're joking.
me: Nup, it's right there. I mean, right there
her: *opens door* Good heavens O.O
Mum: ASK THEM IF THEY'VE GOT A HOSE!
me: D'you have a hose?
her: Yep *dashes off now she's properly woken up*
And then~ the cavalry arrived =DD And drove past our driveway... Yep ^^; Then proceeded to make a vague attempt to do a u-ey in the cul-de-sac of our bottom driveway, which is not the easiest thing to do in a fire engine. More cavalry came up from the other direction, so I started running down the driveway to catch them before they went past it again, but someone (I was assuming Dad at the time, but turned out it was a fireman .-.;;) called out "Look out for the fire engines!" and~ I tripped. Heh. So now I have an ugly bruise on my knee and a less ugly but more painful one on my palm. Go figure. Trying to be helpful and fall over instead. Go 'narti go.
Once they started spraying water and foam and whatever else they spray over the fire, our collective hoses stopped working, so we just sat around and watched as more and more CFS people swarmed up the hill. Colin and I started gaguing this thing by the number of fire engines and flashing lights we got =3 Sum total: 6 fire engines, a water tanker, a CFS four-wheel-drive thing and two cop cars. Not sure what the cops were planning on doing, maybe catching an arsonist or something, I dunno, but they seemed incredibly cheery for having been woken up at 5am to attend a relatively small bushfire.
Certainly wasn't big enough to make the news, anyway--the CFS guy in the four-wheel-drive told us it was the third they'd attended just tonight, and eleventh since... Thursday, I think he said. Poor CFS guys *snugs them* Such a thankless job .-. Turned out that this one started because Ted (guy who lives up the hill from us) was having a burnoff on Sunday and evidently didn't quite put the whole thing out. The CFS guy blames the council tho, cos we have no~ hard rubbish collection save for the ONE that we had in February (ONE in the history of the Adelaide Hills Council), and it costs money to dump your stuff at the dump, so we burn it instead. Fire ban season got extended this year (again) and just got lifted last week. Why they decided to end fire ban season when we still haven't had rain, I dunno. But yeah, blaming the council works. We blame Ted and his hoarding >>
Finally, the fire got sufficiently doused and we went back to bed by about 6:30. One hour before I had to get up for uni. Go figure.
But yes, that was quite an exciting night/morning/whatever. We even got a mention on Nova =D Only in the form of a traffic report at 7:45, saying that the road was closed off except to residents (that's us! =DD), and the engines were all gone by 8 after having drenched the pine needles and everything to make sure they wouldn't catch again, so no more traffic reports, aww.
If Zed had decided he wanted to cooperate and actually go to sleep, we could've seriously been stuffed. Whether he wanted to go out to do kitty business or whether he was actually thinking "DANGER" I dunno, but we're vera thankful X3
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Date: Tue, May. 24th, 2005 03:04 am (UTC)"Woke up, brushed my teeth, bush fire, went to read a book" XD.
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Date: Tue, May. 24th, 2005 04:05 am (UTC)Course, Bridgewater and Aldgate didn't rock up until the fire had actually been put out, so there were only four engines for most of the time, but still. I spotted Upper Sturt, Stirling, I think Crafers and... one other. Forget what that one was. Maybe Hahndorf. Definitely Upper Sturt and Stirling tho.