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Subject: Re: suggestive impression Author: Oz Ozzie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:09:30 02/01/16 Mon In reply to: Leo Kerr 's message, "suggestive impression" on 21:08:13 01/12/16 Tue This time, I found the story very frustrating to read. I'm familiar with bush firefighting. And the first thing any fire fighter at all is thinking all the time is 'what is the weather going to be doing'. It was already annoying me - that is wasn't the first question - as stupid way before you made it a plot device. Like a diver suddenly realising they needed to ensure an air supply.... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: suggestive impression Author: K Pelle [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:47:26 02/02/16 Tue >This time, I found the story very frustrating to read. >I'm familiar with bush firefighting. And the first >thing any fire fighter at all is thinking all the time >is 'what is the weather going to be doing'. It was >already annoying me - that is wasn't the first >question - as stupid way before you made it a plot >device. Like a diver suddenly realising they needed to >ensure an air supply.... I don't know about that! I was in northern Alberta in the early 1960s and helped fight a couple of small forest fires there. I recall that we got caught by surprise when we were hit by a sudden thunder storm on one fire and inside of half an hour the fire doubled in size. We were lucky though and the rains hit right afterward, which helped control the fire. I think the difference in thinking might have been because of the area - we were east of a mountain chain, but predominant winds out of the west, so weather was extremely changeable at any time. The old saying that "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get" really applied up there. kp [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: suggestive impression Author: Oz Ozzie [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 04:26:23 02/02/16 Tue >I don't know about that! I was in northern Alberta >in the early 1960s and helped fight a couple of small >forest fires there. I recall that we got caught by >surprise when we were hit by a sudden thunder storm on >one fire and inside of half an hour the fire doubled >in size. Yeah, that was the 60s. Now, with weather radars, full coverage, etc. We (the fire community, though I'm not a firefighter) are obsessed with wind forecasts, specially since 100s of people have died here in wind changes in the last few years (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires). My favourite resource: http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/equirectangular but there's heaps. Anyway, I would think it would be criminal for the incident commander to not be keeping a close eye on the weather in 2015. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]