Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave, Melbourne,Australia
Q350: Canadian Railroad Trilogy "A drink to the living, a toast to the dead". I'm pleased to see Joveski survived Australia's worst ever bushfire day last Saturday. The death toll in our state Victoria is 108 & expected to be much higher. Many people died at Kinglake, just 30 miles from Melbourne. The fires have destroyed several towns (including Marysville, Narbethong & Flowerdale), 750 homes, 350000 hectares of land, etc. More towns are under threat now, including Beechworth & Stanley in north-eastern Victoria. It appears several of the fires were deliberately lit & the authorities are hell-bent on finding & charging the culprits. Victoria was more vulnerable to bushfires than ever before, after 10 years of drought, the last month without rain & last week several days in the mid-40s degC (around 110degF). Late summer & plenty of tinder-dry fuel for bushfires. On Saturday, Melbourne had its highest temperature on record (46.4degC/116degF) & north winds up to 100Km/h (60mph). The flames were up to 10 storeys high & crossed paddocks etc in seconds. Ironically, parts of Queensland in north-eastern Australia are currently suffering from major floods after record rainfall!
|
Q350 - .... living,a .... = CRT = yup. Since Mende beat you too it with an unintended BUT working song, by tradition we give the first working song the win, but with this list special criteria - lets split you and him both win this one huh ? OK by you 2 ?
Yea Dave - above in Mende's submission - I mentioned the 114 F I saw in Windows weather widgets I have for 12 cities. I've never seen temp that high in Melbourne - since I've been watching. We use acres over here for no-metric ( I know I know lol ) - I did a quick conversion on 1 hectare = 2.471 acres in imperial units,and came up with (I'm tired right now, but) -I got 864850 acres, divided by 640 acres/sq mile (not including longitudinal convergance..or spherical excess - only about 1arc second /75 sq mles - so that factor is 18" spheroidal excess, not worth the calc further for fire area, it would make the area smaller,,, but the convergance is -a bout 52 feet per across the top of a 6 mile x 6 mile USPLSS Township (theoretical - they never measure out that way)36 acre township at my latitude) comes to 1,351 sq miles not incl convergance.
That's big big big. I am really sorry to hear that. And that total area in sq miles converts to (by sq rt) c 36.8 miles square (on edge, eg 36 miles x 36 miles)- not square miles. Thats the size of many "average" counties in forested Colorado. That is BIG .... wow....and all those lives. And people's homes. We have a pretty agressive wildland fire mitigation program up and down the front r ange hear and down in the Rampart rangfe where I am....but both counties I have worked in are in Colorado's "red zone for top fire probability" - lots of lightning, lots of forest on high slopes - and as you said - canyions wals to arc/jump across - once you see that - no movie effect impresses you very much, huh ?
Well - you got the trophy kill on CRT - the BIG song I was lookin for - but Mende's got a lot on his mind - as I said in his - lets split the win between you and Mende what say ? I'll post it. Thanks Dave - and for the info - I like to crunch the numbers lol..