Following on from yesterday, today we are facing Extreme fire danger. Extreme is the second top rating for fire danger, with the top being Catastrophic. Parts of our state are rated Catastrophic today, and the advice for those areas is simply to leave early. Friends who have been camping in an area that will today be rated as Catastrophic were told to leave last night, because if a fire develops today there would be no chance for them to survive. All National Parks in NSW have been closed today.<\/p>\n
Because of where our home is (quite close to bushland), and the likely wind direction today, we feel that our home is at a very high risk of fire attack if a fire develops in our area. Yesterday, as well as physically preparing our home and yard, we prepared our bushfire survival plan so that we know what we will do in such an emergency. Our plan is simply to leave early. There is no way we would stay behind to defend our property.<\/p>\n
We have neighbours who are older and do not have transport, so I went in to one of them and we prepared her bushfire survival plan as well – she would come with us if we left early or evacuated in an emergency. Our other neighbour is very elderly and we would just front up at her door and say “come with us, now”. She’s not really with it enough for me to prepare her beforehand. Even if I did, there’s no knowing whether she’d remember any of it at the time.<\/p>\n
This morning we will keep our house shut up as much as possible to keep the heat out. The forecast is still for 43 degrees Celcius (just under 110 degrees Fahrenheit). We’ll water the vegies early and cover them with a sheet to keep some of the heat off.<\/p>\n
We will pack our bushfire survival kit and maybe even pack the car, ready to leave. Perhaps we’re overdoing it, but quite frankly, I’d rather survive. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Hopefully tomorrow I will simply report that the day passed without incident, though we were extremely hot and sweaty. As we’ve been saying to all family and friends, stay safe and stay cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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