Yesterday was a dangerous day for me.

[Jimbuna]

Probably looking forward to a few days off school now, I suspect

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Probably looking forward to a few days off school now, I suspect

I got Friday off, and now I get Monday and Tuesday off as well

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

I got Friday off, and now I get Monday and Tuesday off as well

Nice one....I remember the days of long gone past but for different reasons such as power failures or burst water mains

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Nice one....I remember the days of long gone past but for different reasons such as power failures or burst water mains

"Snow oop t' me eyeballs!"

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by TarJak

"Snow oop t' me eyeballs!"

My school would probably still think about being in session that day.

If we get a few inches, and there's no ice on the main roads, we're still in school even though most of the kids live on the gravel county roads.

I'm just waiting for the day where we literally get snowed in and they tell us to "come get your work when you can"

Talking about Wasps, I have a Hornet story you'll get a kick out of.
I was doing the demo work on a Wendy's about 2 weeks ago. That required me to remove the outside signs, lights, brick, and misc stuff.
I went up on the roof to remove the top panel lights covers so I could unbolt the structures. Since we didn't have the lifts or ladders onsite I parked the box van close enuff to climb up there. I climbed onto the drive thru window then up to the roof no problem.
I started unscrewing the covers then flipping them off to get to the bolts.
That is when the 'Yellow Hord from Hades' made an unexpected appearence!

Now you have to picture everyone else standing on the ground looking up at me as I took off at the fastest run I could manage in a direction opposite the now angry 'Hord'!
That worked great until I ran out of roof with the 'Hord' still intent on revenge for destroying thier home.
I'm still not sure if it was blind panic or a stratagy on my part but I didn't stop running and went right off the roof at a dead run landing on the box van still running then from there to the ground.

When I went around the corner to where everyone else was standing I saw money exchangeing hands and the bastums had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard!

Seems as soon as I took off running they were betting on if I'd jump or not!!

[TarJak]

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by privateer

Talking about Wasps, I have a Hornet story you'll get a kick out of.
I was doing the demo work on a Wendy's about 2 weeks ago. That required me to remove the outside signs, lights, brick, and misc stuff.
I went up on the roof to remove the top panel lights covers so I could unbolt the structures. Since we didn't have the lifts or ladders onsite I parked the box van close enuff to climb up there. I climbed onto the drive thru window then up to the roof no problem.
I started unscrewing the covers then flipping them off to get to the bolts.
That is when the 'Yellow Hord from Hades' made an unexpected appearence!

Now you have to picture everyone else standing on the ground looking up at me as I took off at the fastest run I could manage in a direction opposite the now angry 'Hord'!
That worked great until I ran out of roof with the 'Hord' still intent on revenge for destroying thier home.
I'm still not sure if it was blind panic or a stratagy on my part but I didn't stop running and went right off the roof at a dead run landing on the box van still running then from there to the ground.

When I went around the corner to where everyone else was standing I saw money exchangeing hands and the bastums had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard!

Seems as soon as I took off running they were betting on if I'd jump or not!!

That's funny.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Talking about Wasps, I have a Hornet story you'll get a kick out of.
I was doing the demo work on a Wendy's about 2 weeks ago. That required me to remove the outside signs, lights, brick, and misc stuff.
I went up on the roof to remove the top panel lights covers so I could unbolt the structures. Since we didn't have the lifts or ladders onsite I parked the box van close enuff to climb up there. I climbed onto the drive thru window then up to the roof no problem.
I started unscrewing the covers then flipping them off to get to the bolts.
That is when the 'Yellow Hord from Hades' made an unexpected appearence!

Now you have to picture everyone else standing on the ground looking up at me as I took off at the fastest run I could manage in a direction opposite the now angry 'Hord'!
That worked great until I ran out of roof with the 'Hord' still intent on revenge for destroying thier home.
I'm still not sure if it was blind panic or a stratagy on my part but I didn't stop running and went right off the roof at a dead run landing on the box van still running then from there to the ground.

When I went around the corner to where everyone else was standing I saw money exchangeing hands and the bastums had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard!

Seems as soon as I took off running they were betting on if I'd jump or not!!

I'd have given my pension to see that

[nikimcbee]

Those are Aussie wasps too. You're lucky they didn't carry you away.

You're close to Asia....Asian wasps...

[fireftr18]

Found this on a trade magazine website.

http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-atta...-in-Australia/

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Found this on a trade magazine website.

http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-atta...-in-Australia/

Yes, the BBC had an article on that earlier this morning, troubling thoughts considering the weather conditions for the coming days mean that they're not out of the trouble zone yet. I doubt that the Springwood fire will merge, but there's a good likelihood the Mount Victoria one will.

Helluva nasty situation out there right now, even the thunderstorms aren't helping since they're mostly electrical storms which spark even more fires. The firefighters really have a battle on their hands, most of them are volunteers and quite a few of them have lost their homes already.

Just have to keep everything crossed that this doesn't develop into a 2009 like scenario, that was a nightmare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Februar...rian_bushfires

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Found this on a trade magazine website.

http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-atta...-in-Australia/

Most worrying indeed

[TarJak]

Weather forecast tomorrow looks bad. Winds predicted to gust to 100kph and temps in the high 30's and about 10% humidity. Perfect firestorm weather.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/we...022-2vz3h.html

Hoping tomorrow isn't as bad as being predicted. There are now thousands evacuated or being prepared to be evacuated in the state as around 50 fires continue to blaze.

[Cybermat47]

Now I get the week off, and a trip to Canberra to see my Uncle and go to the AWM. And my dogs are coming too!

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Found this on a trade magazine website.

http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-atta...-in-Australia/

I didn't realise they'd caused that much damage.

R.I.P. whoever died.