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Hope all our Aussie friends are out of harms way! Been reading about tornadoes of fire and hope you guys are not in the path pf these things.
Wow. Lot of damage. I too, hope and pray for the safety of those in the path.
Indeed... pretty damned scary. Tornadoes of fire. 
Sheesh!
These are from a few months ago...
http://4umf.com/tornado-of-fire-hits-australia/
Stay safe you lot!
The BOM just added a new colour to their weather charts....50 to 55c .....;)
^ BOM = Bureau of Meteorology ... in cryptic Australian [he didn't forget the second 'B']. 
We had a close reminder of just how bad this bushfire season is just yesterday. The smoke from a nearby fire was so thick we could not see the [usually visible] city centre of Ipswich, about 8 kms away as the crow flies. Yeah, visibility was down to less than 100 metres and the smell of smoke was all through the house.
No tornadoes of fire, though, and thank goodness for that.
Thinking and sending good thoughts to Aussie land. Hope everyone from here especially is kept safe. 
starkers and I are safe but for some of the people in Tasmania are not so lucky
my thoughts and prayers are with you ... the clip is about 4 days old not much has changed
Tasmanian crews are spending the night on the Tasman Peninsula in the south-east, working on two bushfires which still have active fronts.
The Forcett fire remains on a watch-and-act warning, and 12 crews are still working on its active fronts. Five communities are still at the advice level.
Wind gusts have caused fire boundaries near Kellevie, Bream Creek and Marion Bay to flare up on Friday afternoon, while residents south of the fire front have also been kept on alert.
Residents south of Eaglehawk Neck, along Blow Hole Road to Doo Town, should remain vigilant, but there is no direct threat to communities.
The Fire Service says more than 160 firefighters spent the night backburning on the Tasman Peninsula in the south-east where two bushfires are burning uncontained.
Returning home
After being closed for a week the highway between Hobart and Port Arthur was re-opened to residents and property owners yesterday.
For many in towns like Dunalley and Murdunna, there was only debris to sift through.
Sam Chaffey lost the shack he built with his father in 1954 and everything in it.
"A lot of memories, all the photographs and all the things in there," he said.
Roger Brown was luckier - his Murdunna property was saved by firefighters as flames hit the deck.
"Obviously five minutes could have been devastating for us," he said.
The Arthur Highway will re-open to all traffic from 6:00pm (AEDT) tomorrow with the speed limit of 60 kilometres per hour, as crews work to restore services.
Chief fire officer Mike Brown says crews are taking advantage of the mild conditions.
"It's now a week since the worst fires we've had in Tasmania that we've experienced since 1967 have started," he said.
"While many of the fires are still burning and there's much more to be done, conditions have moderated and provided us with an opportunity to contain sectors of those fires, particularly those around the at-risk communities."
Mr Brown says he is confident the bushfire risk remains low enough for residents of the state's devastated south-east peninsulas to start returning home.
"[Firefighters] have been making some really good progress in the last two days," he said.
"The next two or three days are going to give us more opportunities to make the community areas, particularly down on the Tasman Peninsula, more secure.
"It is likely then in remote pockets we'll still have some fire activity."
He says although a man has been charged for leaving a campfire unattended, sparking the Lake Repulse blaze, for the most part, people respected last week's catastrophic fire warnings.
"In so many ways I think the Tasmanian community responded marvellously because we had a total fire ban in the southern region on the Thursday, we had a state-wide total fire ban on the Friday and we in effect got very few new fire starts through that period," he said.
Mr Brown warned the fire threat remained across the state for the next eight to 12 weeks.
Crews are also hopeful of containing the large Montumana bushfire in the state's north-west, which has so far burnt more than 3,000 hectares and destroyed two shacks.
About six millimetres of rain fell on the fire this morning and more showers are forecast for the weekend.
Barry Davies from the Parks and Wildlife Service says the threat of flare-ups remains, but the fire is close to being contained.
"The main fire front has now died right down, so three sides they're just getting a lot of blackening out, and on the fourth side, the southern side, they're just working on some breaks," he said. sorry for the long reply
Thoughts and prayers to all, especially the brave firefighters. Stay safe and hopefully out of harms way.
I'm so glad you and yours are safe. And Congrats on you handsome grandson. 
I hope for a drastic change in weather for Australia.
Make it Rain!!!
Thanks IROKONESS, we are safe where we are, but my daughter and the kids are only 1 or 2 hours drive from Launceston to Hobart and the Fires are mainly in Hobart so they are safe for now but I do have other family members that live not too far from the fires mostly on the outskirts or other suburbs around Hobart
Yup, somebody had to jinx us.... 
now it's pissing down, a least here in Queensland, buckets of it. All major river systems in the North are on flood alert status and several towns are isolated. Tully, the wetest town in Australia recorded nearly 500 millimeters in 24 hours, so it's not just wet up there, it's saturated. It's not so bad where we are here on the South East, though it has been raining steadily for the last 36 hours or so. It has been constant and heavy at times, but there are no flood warnings for our area as yet.
Are those rains helping the firefighters? I hope so for everyone's sake. You don't know whether to grab the rubber duckie or a really big squirt gun.
The rains are in the North of the country and the bushfires are in the Southern states, so no, the rains are not helping them at all.
Well it's official, we are cut off from the rest of Brassall and Ipswich/Brisbane, etc. The roads way down the bottom of our street are flooded. We are up on a hill so we should be okay, touch wood. It was worse last time and we didn't get flooded out, so hopefully we'll get through it unscathed again. However, here's hoping those in lower lying areas are not too badly affected. Many have been evacuated, so let's hope/pray, whatever, that they have homes to go back to, and that their possessions are okay.
That does not sound good Mark, being cut off and everything. Good thing you're on higher ground. I'll keep happy thoughts and prayers for everyone. As a contrast, two thirds of the US is experiencing the exact opposite almost. Within the last ten days three massive pile-ups, one happened in Canada, 70 vehicles, two in the midwest, one involved 50 vehicles and the other I didn't see a count. All due to icy road conditions and very poor visibility. Its bad all over yet next week we're looking at temps near 60 F. Crazy!
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