[AusRace] Kyneton

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So was this mobile phone thing a Telstra endeavour, as I'm with Vodaphone 
and got nowt.

Lindsay.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louise Campbell" <louisec at intermet.net.au>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AusRace] Kyneton


> To finish this off topic, I must add I thought the sending of messages to
> mobile phones bureaucratic idiocy. Local ABC and regional CFAs were doing 
> a
> wonderful job of warning. Only thing the mobile phone stunt did was
> demonstrate what a marvellous national resource they could be sometime
> perhaps. Louise
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com [mailto:ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com]On
> Behalf Of norsaint publishing
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 2:06 PM
> To: AusRace Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [AusRace] Kyneton
>
>
> Steve,
> how on earth did you know, given you're where you are?
> Nothing gets past you, obviously.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM, SteveB <essbee at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Louise for that.
>>
>> MICK(????not his real name????) or Nick, your brain is addled with all 
>> the
>> angst in your life.
>>
>>
>> Louise Campbell wrote.....
>> Not quite as hilarious as you might think. I live 21 kilometres from
>> Kyneton, 17 from Musk. The Daylesford fires got a bit closer to us than
>> Musk
>> and I had so many embers in the backyard I couldn't believe it. Certainly
>> they had burnt out before they hit but the grass was so dry it would have
>> been another story if they'd been closer. These warnings are absolutely
>> vital to us. And we've the large Wombat State Forest next door but
>> fortunately it was never threatened.
>> Kyneton was keeping watch on the Kilmore fires and set up a relief centre
>> there for the whole district. The number of roadside trees down was also
>> pretty alarming. You've no idea of the effect of the drought. However,
> that
>> is in the past and so far as I know the Kilmore fire has been contained.
>> The
>> winds have sprung up strongly and it does look as though they might bring
>> rain. For the sake of all the people losing or threatened to lose their
>> crops I hope so.
>> Hilarious? NO. Everyone needs a nanny some time or another! Louise
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com <
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>> ausrace.com <http://ausrace.com/mailman/listinfo/ausrace>]On
>> Behalf Of norsaint publishing
>> Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 9:27 AM
>> To: AusRace Mailing List
>> Subject: [AusRace] Kyneton
>>
>>
>> Anyone know if Kyneton is still on?  Given the apocalyptic warnings for
>> Victoria today, nothing would surprise me.
>> Hard to believebut  the good citizens of Victoria yesterday all received 
>> a
>> text message from the Victorian Police no less, warning of a very hot day
>> today and dangerous winds and advising us all to stay inside, drink 
>> plenty
>> of water, exercise our bowels etc etc.
>> Has the Nanny state finally surpassed itself?
>>
>> By the way, in Melbourne today, it is a very mild 19 degrees and raining.
>> This stuff is starting to become very very hilarious.
>>
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