Happy New Year to All

[Rally Pack 2000]

3 minutes ago, Vista said:

Good to hear you have a little distance from it. 

You can still smell it constantly though, its like a fog 24 hours a day, sometimes pea soup fog that you can only see two houses away. I haven't driven the car in a couple months now, everything is just too smoky and grubby and it still hasn't been fixed since it was rear ended back in October and wont even see a workshop till February. There will be ash in the white paint when that finally gets done Im sure!

[Rally Pack 2000]

On 05/01/2020 at 02:45, Vista said:

Good to hear you have a little distance from it. 

The area was reopened but there is not much left of our favourite local walking spot. The hill in the background had a forest of trees similar to the foreground before the new year now there is barely a sign there was anything ever existed on the slopes of it.

[notenoughtime]

Has the smoke cleared yet? Terrible what’s happened 

[Rally Pack 2000]

On 14/01/2020 at 07:44, notenoughtime said:

Has the smoke cleared yet? Terrible what’s happened 

The smoke actually turned to dust yesterday. We has a huge dust storm that engulfed Sydney. It gets in everywhere. I took off the car covers to rinse them and the water turned to mud. The images below is the dust that filtered through the covers not even the bulk of it that fell on top.

Then the hail storm his this morning which didn't damage the cars but everywhere the stones landed on cars they melted and mixed with the dust to create mud spots

Car washing is banned at the moment from water restrictions but the pressure hose is accidentally going to be pointed at both cars over the weekend!

[Vista]

On the news here it looks like you guys have gone from one extreme to the other almost overnight?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51453767

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[Rally Pack 2000]

Yes we have had a few storms this week and really spooky electrical storm tonight but the water has been most welcome even putting some of the bad fires out and they are even talking about lifting water restrictions. Good to see some locals back having survived the dry.

The floods over there are looking pretty grim. Has anyone here copped any damage or been washed out?

[YellowTaxi]

Good pal of mine has a Mk1 currently totally submerged.

Once the water goes we will see how bad things are.

 

[katana]

2 hours ago, YellowTaxi said:

Good pal of mine has a Mk1 currently totally submerged.

Once the water goes we will see how bad things are.

A car in a damp garage is one thing for rust propagation but total immersion - BUMMER! Hope its covered with insurance!

Aussie dust storms are nothing - Global weather is going mad!

[John escort mk1V6]

Yes , i feel very sorry for that shit overthere , are you familiar with Max Igan ?

[Rally Pack 2000]

7 hours ago, katana said:

Aussie dust storms are nothing - Global weather is going mad!

You wouldn't be saying that while you were choking on one for a few days and everything you eat tastes like dirt! But dust storms were last week. Its rain and flooding this week which came as a big surprise to everyone. I think the country is trying to show sympathy to the worser floods in the UK.