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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:20 pm
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no from chemist warehouse in the city...

Chemist Warehouse! That's a surprise and good to know. There must be far more of them near everyone than Bunnings. (She did get P2-rated ones, right?)
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WOW, IM SO HAPPY TEARY, HOPE ITS GETTING TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE!!
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... HOPE ITS GETTING TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE!!

This from BOM: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR022.loop.shtml

Looks like there's currently a heavy band from Bendigo to Castlemaine to Macedon and down to Melbourne.
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WOW, IM SO HAPPY TEARY, HOPE ITS GETTING TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE!!


Well it just saved our asses here, still a long way from Gippsland though.
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Watch out for flash flooding today.

JFC your not kidding, its belting down here!!

TP, there’s no need to use my official title on Nick’s. Wink
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I went for a walk at lunchtime in the CBD to buy smokes, yeah it was smokey but no big deal. Sit around a campfire for a few hours you'll get worse.

Funny thing is, the advice on wearing the breathing masks is that those dodgy face masks you see lots of Asians wearing in the CBD are not only useless at filtering out any pollutants, they actually just make it harder to breathe

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think positive wrote:
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Watch out for flash flooding today.

JFC your not kidding, its belting down here!!

TP, there’s no need to use my official title on Nick’s. Wink


Hehe! Well done!

I just found a double pack of P2 masks in the cupboard! I handed them to my dripping wet daughter as she came in the door, not sure it was appreciated!

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^ Stui, I think those are just "surgical" masks - they're intended to stop you contracting swine flu, not to stop smoke.

I don't know how it was in the CBD today but the breathing difficulties were hideous there, yesterday.
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Geez, it's surreal reading this thread. I hope you all get relief soon enough.
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^ Stui, I think those are just "surgical" masks - they're intended to stop you contracting swine flu, not to stop smoke.

I don't know how it was in the CBD today but the breathing difficulties were hideous there, yesterday.


Some are cloth, some are some designer stuff potentially more fashion statement than practical.

I've moved buildings from Elisabeth St near the markets where there was a lot more Asians in masks to up near Russel and Lonsdale.

Today was pretty much the same as yesterday. The building managers locked the front doors beside the revolving door and made all traffic use the revolving door in an attempt to keep the smoke out, which of course made for hilarious watching at all the distracted idiots who walk into the locked door because they didn't see or read the big sign right in front of their face Laughing

Despite being a smoker, I had no issues with breathing in the air, no different to normal and I can walk 3-4km without running out of breath normally. Actually, it might be further, I normally have to pull over with shin soreness before the breath gives out

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think positive wrote:
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no from chemist warehouse in the city...

Chemist Warehouse! That's a surprise and good to know. There must be far more of them near everyone than Bunnings. (She did get P2-rated ones, right?)


yep, so she will have 4 now!!

and OMFG the thunder here just scared the absolute **** out of me!

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Four is better than two! We don't know how long this will go on for.
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Four is better than two! We don't know how long this will go on for.


Sad true, man its so awful, i just finished sobbing over Jimmy the pig, i cant take this, im taping the tennis telethon, i just cant watch that koala screaming in pain again. just take my money...

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Geez, it's surreal reading this thread. I hope you all get relief soon enough.


I know, right? I feel like we’re all living in a prologue to Peter Watkins’ The War Game, or something.

https://youtu.be/OA_CndlBu0g

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Geez, it's surreal reading this thread. I hope you all get relief soon enough.


Storm this arvo killed the smoke, we've had 18mm of rain since 5pm at my place, we've had double the amount of rain in the first 15 days of Jan that we had in all of jan 2018.

With the climactic conditions that caused the drought finished (positive Indian Dipole and the negative phase of the southern annual mode) we're likely (hopefully) for some more rain and less drought.

Won't help the places burned in the Black Saturday fires 10 years ago, they're primed to burn again next month withe some typical February heat, so we aint finished yet.

Us city folk are fine, winging about a bit of smoke in the air isn't my deal, the fire fighters and people in the front line of the fires have had it far worse

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