I would just like to say

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Stanleysteamer said:
According to the Frog fire brigade at least 80 % more like 90% have a human cause either deliberate, or accidental like chucking a lighted cigarette out of a car window. They are trying to say that things like lightning strikes do not commonly start fires.

and I don't think it is a law, I think it is just the insurance companies doing what they all do, trying to never pay out. Why the gubmint allow it I have no idea.

What is dewdrops lighting? Do they make themselves into little magnifying glasses or summat?
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A dewdrop has all the ingredients for a magnifying glass if it's in the right place the Sun at the correct elevation dry understory bang fire
 
DanClarke said:
...that my son called me from Cologne to ask for a favour regarding chaperoning a surveyor at his house while he is away at Gamescom. As we were talking he suddenly lost his ability to speak and then said "What the ****! There's a completely naked woman jogging through the square here totally starkers with everything on show and there's people of all ages here, kiddies too!"
I was going to ask him to get a pic, but thought better of it.
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And thay called it the streak the fastest thing on two feet 🎼🎶🎵🎤
 
DanClarke said:
...that my son called me from Cologne to ask for a favour regarding chaperoning a surveyor at his house while he is away at Gamescom. As we were talking he suddenly lost his ability to speak and then said "What the ****! There's a completely naked woman jogging through the square here totally starkers with everything on show and there's people of all ages here, kiddies too!"
I was going to ask him to get a pic, but thought better of it.
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I've been to Cologne, once, for the Carnaval. According to W who used to have to go there on business all the time, Cologne is the most boring town ever. Only two things relieve it, Carnaval where they all go flipping mad for a week, and the Christmas market!!
So maybe this burd got so sick of it she decided to make her own entertainment!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
Stone56 said:
A dewdrop has all the ingredients for a magnifying glass if it's in the right place the Sun at the correct elevation dry understory bang fire
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Velly, velly intelesting!!!
I'd a thort, if the dew was on the ground then nowt would be dry enough to catch fire, but if you say so.....
Carn elp thinking that with the billions of dewdrops there must be every morn then stuff should be on fire all the time.

But then I ham a hignoramus!!
 
DanClarke said:
...that my son called me from Cologne to ask for a favour regarding chaperoning a surveyor at his house while he is away at Gamescom. As we were talking he suddenly lost his ability to speak and then said "What the ****! There's a completely naked woman jogging through the square here totally starkers with everything on show and there's people of all ages here, kiddies too!"
I was going to ask him to get a pic, but thought better of it.
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He didn't give her a score out of ten then? ;)
 
Spent a few hours under me Landy today, major overhaul of the front suspension. Today's target was to clean up all the nuts and bolts on one side and spray them with penetrating stuff in preparation for replacing various parts (which I have had in the garage for nearly a year). That target has been achieved. Also on the schedule was to check out the workshop procedure for removing the top turrets. Manual says remove the cover from the wheel arch and lift the turret out through the engine bay, simples. But it doesn't mention all the hoses, bits of harness and air box which are in the way :rolleyes:. Next on the list is to do the same for the other side. Then find my bucket of enthusiasm to do the dismantling and reassembly with the new parts, with a bit of painting in between.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Velly, velly intelesting!!!
I'd a thort, if the dew was on the ground then nowt would be dry enough to catch fire, but if you say so.....
Carn elp thinking that with the billions of dewdrops there must be every morn then stuff should be on fire all the time.

But then I ham a hignoramus!!
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We have many, many forest fires in these parts (and 500,000 hectares burned so far this year in the NWT alone). It is hard to believe until you see it, but a fire will burn all winter long in the arctic cold under several feet of snow. You can be driving along in January, it's -40c out and there is smoke coming out of the ground! Some of these over-wintering fires flare up again the spring.

We were evacuated in '23. It's quite the experience. I never thought I'd find myself registering as an evacuee. That same year the town of Hay River was evacuated twice, and the hamlet of Enterprise was 90% destroyed by a fire that moved 80kms in one day. At one point 60% of the population of the NWT was evacuated at the same time. Some days the smoke is quite alarming and the sky is apocalyptic. I'll see if I can work out how to post a video I took a couple of years ago.

Edit: It appears not. I too is an hignoraymuss!
 
Need some ideas for numbers, dots etc fo me clock, need to be 5cm if numbers but anythin will do, something different.
Used an old Mini wheel disc for the centre
 

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Squonker said:
We have many, many forest fires in these parts (and 500,000 hectares burned so far this year in the NWT alone). It is hard to believe until you see it, but a fire will burn all winter long in the arctic cold under several feet of snow. You can be driving along in January, it's -40c out and there is smoke coming out of the ground! Some of these over-wintering fires flare up again the spring.

We were evacuated in '23. It's quite the experience. I never thought I'd find myself registering as an evacuee. That same year the town of Hay River was evacuated twice, and the hamlet of Enterprise was 90% destroyed by a fire that moved 80kms in one day. At one point 60% of the population of the NWT was evacuated at the same time. Some days the smoke is quite alarming and the sky is apocalyptic. I'll see if I can work out how to post a video I took a couple of years ago.

Edit: It appears not. I too is an hignoraymuss!
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Make it into a Youtube then put up a link is the way, apparently.
 
Squonker said:
We have many, many forest fires in these parts (and 500,000 hectares burned so far this year in the NWT alone). It is hard to believe until you see it, but a fire will burn all winter long in the arctic cold under several feet of snow. You can be driving along in January, it's -40c out and there is smoke coming out of the ground! Some of these over-wintering fires flare up again the spring.

We were evacuated in '23. It's quite the experience. I never thought I'd find myself registering as an evacuee. That same year the town of Hay River was evacuated twice, and the hamlet of Enterprise was 90% destroyed by a fire that moved 80kms in one day. At one point 60% of the population of the NWT was evacuated at the same time. Some days the smoke is quite alarming and the sky is apocalyptic. I'll see if I can work out how to post a video I took a couple of years ago.

Edit: It appears not. I too is an hignoraymuss!
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Can we assume that you managed to move back into your place and it survived OK?
Must have been frightening.
At the mo we have no modus operandi set up if we had to be evacuated. Wondering if we ought to set one up.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Can we assume that you managed to move back into your place and it survived OK?
Must have been frightening.
At the mo we have no modus operandi set up if we had to be evacuated. Wondering if we ought to set one up.
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We can, thank you. Not one single building in town was touched, many of the chopper pilots fighting the fire saying that there was no need ever to have have been evacuated. But there ya go.

The evac lasted three weeks. I was in Calgary anyway when it was ordered, but was called back to work as emergency personnel half way through which was kind of cool.

As it turns out we had no modus operandi either. There is only one road out of town, and the closest city is an 18 hr drive away (although there are progessively larger communities along the way). The authorities were saying there will be no evacuation, there will be no evacuation, and then at 7pm one night they changed that to "leave immediately". Imagine having kids that had just gone to bed. Or several large dogs.

What would have been truly frightening was the South Slave region. Off the main highway you have a 40km drive to Hay River, a dead end road. The community of Fort Smith is 300km from Hay River at the end of another dead end road. Fort Smith was evacuated to Hay River, and 24 hrs later Hay River was evacuated (for the second time). As everyone was leaving Hay River to head to the highway 40kms away the fire breached the road, which became impassable. But all the communication lines were down - no land lines, no mobiles, so the folks heading that way, as instructed, were heading straight into the fire. Apparently visibility was so bad some people just pulled off the road, unable to go any further. Others tried to turn people back around. Plastic body panels and headlights melted in the heat. That would have been genuinely terrifying, I reckon.
 
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