Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022
They say they have the fire under control today, but it's still really smoky around here, and I can hear the helicopters constantly.
I was struck by this pic in The Guardian taken yesterday from south of Sydney Harbour that shows the scale of the thing:
Credit: Farid Farid/AAP
In an ever-changing world, sometimes it's nice to have a spot of consistency.
Today, it's Aotearoa giving Australia a beating in rugby again.
Very soothing 🇳🇿 😂
Good news.
They are typically very good at getting control of these things, especially when the professional firefighters go in to help the volunteer ones.
This, here, is the thing that worries me about it.
If we want to have green areas in the city, a few houses are gonna be threatened by fires every now and then.
But they've been building a bunch of these retirement villages up that way for a couple of decades now, and this fire is heading in their direction.
The fire as seen from Long Reef/Dee Why Beach
Photo credit: Andrew Quilty
Fortunately, they appear to have their Hueys available, but they typically send the bigger helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft over to North America to help there while we're in winter, so I don't know if they're back yet 🤞
Interesting. The smoke from the fire is the only thing showing up on the weather radar.
Can confirm first-hand that it's really big now. I hope they have air assets available this early in the season 😬
Note: It won't get to us because there's are a lot of built-up area in between. The smoke's very bad, but.
They're doing a hazard reduction burn on 23 Hectares of bush today - which is excellent because that will help prevent a dangerous bushfire later in the summer - but the wind is coming from the WNW, so those of us who are downwind of it are coughing our lungs out.
They make concert tickets expensive because people will buy them. All the rest of the rationalisation is nonsense.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/21/green-day-australia-tour-tickets-dynamic-pricing
Rutger Hauer! Always wonderful.
The Blade Runner soliloquy was close to perfection.
RIP.
So the cool free-to-air SBS World Movie channel here has Sin City on tonight.
It makes me wish Bruce Willis well. Whether it was Moonlighting or the Die Hards, he entertained us and I’m grateful.
Couldn't resist doing a bit of Keef with that Tele while I had everything plugged in 🤷♂️ 😂
I imagine it would be pretty annoying for at least one person if this book stayed on the NYT Bestseller List for a few weeks 😂 :
It’s a bit chillier than usual for this time of year, but still T-shirt and shorts weather in the sun 😊
Dave Muir 🇦🇺🎸
Enthusiast.
I like guitars a lot. Maybe too much.
I also do music production and mix engineering.
Joined Jul 2022