Covid and Fires

Hi all
Perth is currently in a 5 day covid lockdown (day 3). This is after 10 months of no community transmission and was found from one of the guards in the hotel quarantine testing positive.

Yesterday, I mentioned after raid, I was preparing for evac from fires - just incase!
In 22 years I have lived here we have been evac'd 3 times.

The last 2 and a half days this fire has been burning.
59 homes gone - 9000 hectares burnt!!

This is the picture on the "warning map" as of this morning my time.
Red = fire zone
Yellow = watch and act
Blue = advice level.

The blue thumb pin is Tweedle and me.
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The weather today is forecast as 36'C and winds up to 70km/hr.
Wind direction is everything.
If it is easterly, which it normally is up until the afternoon - we might be evac'd.
The land between the red area and us is mostly open shrubbery/paddocks with very dry grass.
If the fire gets in that, it will move very quickly.
Just letting you know what is happening here incase tweed and I need to go fast today.
We are packed. It is a case of round up 3 cats into the carriers and put in cars with our already packed stuff and we are gone to my daughters place.

I hope the fire will not go your way.

pretty nerve wracking~

It has moved! We are still in the blue (see the blue thumb nail).
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So you get an idea of the distance ...
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You can see the 10km at the bottom right!

We are still in the blue... and waiting

It has changed again..
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Fires not finished BUT Tweed and I are safe it appears.
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Good news then =)

Hugs