Re: No one from Victoria?

Hi John, I don't know if you got Helene Wild's (ANOS) email. Eddie Sabljak's house and Fernacres Nursery are OK. Helen and Barry Richards in Yarra Glen had some property damage but the house is apparently OK. Andrew Gibbons

Other than Helene's son, who's house in Kinglake had a bit of fire damage but otherwise survived, those ANOS members who Helene has contacted seem to be OK. To be honest those with serious property damage may have greater priorities at the moment than checking in with their orchid society. Andrew

Really sorry to hear about Jenny, Andrew. She will be missed.

Has anyone heard from Reiner? Used to post under the name AusDigi. His website is down, but since it was housed on his own server that may not mean anything. He used to take photos of terrestrials on his tramps through the national parks.

True, these people probably have bigger problems than contacting folks from their orchid societies, but it just lets you know how the world has changed. We've never met you and probably never will but we know you and wonder how you are and hope everything's OK.

K Barrett

Has anyone heard from Reiner?  Used to post under the name AusDigi.  His

> website is down, but since it was housed on his own server that may not mean
> anything.  He used to take photos of terrestrials on his tramps through the
> national parks.
>
> True, these people probably have bigger problems than contacting folks from
> their orchid societies, but it just lets you know how the world has changed.
> We've never met you and probably never will but we know you and wonder how
> you are and hope everything's OK.
>
> K Barrett

Reiner lives in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He should have been far enough away from the fire that burnt parts of parts of the Fern Tree Gully area. His house is not near the fires burnng to the north or east of Melbourne.

Reiner lives in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He should have been far enough away from the fire that burnt parts of parts of the Fern Tree Gully area. His house is not near the fires burnng to the north or east of Melbourne.

_____________ Thank you Andrew. You're a pal! I guess I can't get over being a den mother.

K Barrett

Not a problem. I realise it's quite disconcerting, when disasters occur outside of your country, to try and piece together where your international friends are on a map you're probably not familiar with.

Does anyone know anything about Kye?

Diana

Not a problem. I realise it's quite disconcerting, when disasters occur outside of your country, to try and piece together where your international friends are on a map you're probably not familiar with.

Hi Diana

No need to worry about Kye. He lives in Queensland and is probably closer to the floods in Northern Australia than he is to the bush fires in Victoria. Such is the nature of Australia that we are drowning in the north, burning in the south and being eaten in the middle (two shark attacks in Sydney in last two days!)

That reminds me of when I was in India a few years ago. I was in the Punjab, where the monsoons had failed for several years in a row by the time I arrived. Average temperature was 45 degrees Celcius, and Rajastan, to the south of Punjab was even hotter and drier. The suffering of those in rural areas and in ghettos was terrible. And a month after I arrived in the Punjab, in Assam, the easternmost state in India, they had terrible floods that drove all kinds of nasty critters into homes, and we remarked how cool the Punjab had become when the termperatures moderated to 35 degrees Celcius ;-).

To bad one can't easily create an infrastructure that takes such surplus water and pipe or otherwise ship it to neighbors who need it. That makes as much sense as the pipelines that carry oil and natural gas from western and northern Canada down to the states and east to central Canada, perhaps more so. Reduce the hazard, at least a little, due to flooding, and get it to the south to ameliorate the worst aspects of the drought.

Needless to say, our thought and prayers in this household are with the folk down under who are living through such tough times; both in the flooded north and burning south.

Ted

Thanks for your thoughts Ted. Our politicians have been talking about a North-South water pipeline to bring water from the monsoonal north to the drought stricken south for more than 100 years. If they had started back then it would have been finished by now.

Now, had it been an oil pipeline that was required ......!!

John

wrote:

That reminds me of when I was in India a few years ago. I was in the Punjab, where the monsoons had failed for several years in a row by the time I arrived. Average temperature was 45 degrees Celcius, and Rajastan, to the south of Punjab was even hotter and drier. The suffering of those in rural areas and in ghettos was terrible. And a month after I arrived in the Punjab, in Assam, the easternmost state in India, they had terrible floods that drove all kinds of nasty critters into homes, and we remarked how cool the Punjab had become when the termperatures moderated to 35 degrees Celcius ;-).

To bad one can't easily create an infrastructure that takes such surplus water and pipe or otherwise ship it to neighbors who need it. That makes as much sense as the pipelines that carry oil and natural gas from western and northern Canada down to the states and east to central Canada, perhaps more so. Reduce the hazard, at least a little, due to flooding, and get it to the south to ameliorate the worst aspects of the drought.

Needless to say, our thought and prayers in this household are with the folk down under who are living through such tough times; both in the flooded north and burning south.

Ted