Today is National Hangover Day

Unusually, I'm not joining in this celebration this year, although I have done many times in the past.

I would imagine that @Dazza can tell us what it feels like

 

The only hangover I'm suffering is from a lack of sleep. I reckon I've had about 12 - 15 hours sleep in the last 3 or 4 days.

 

Clear as a bell
Ding dong

 

It sounds like it’s getting worse. How is it looking?

 

It's going to be horrendous by the weekend as it looks like the big fire in the Victorian Alps and East Gippsland will join with the one behind us.
The smoke in the area is around 200 times what is considered hazardous to health, so basically we're wearing dust masks through to full respirators.

 

Are you set on staying put then?

 

How far would you have to go to be safe ?

 

We're 42 kilometres to the nearest town of any size but it's right in the path of a fire, in the other direction it's about 80 kilometres and already crowded with people who have escaped from the coast.
I'll probably bunker down here and hope for the best.

 

Stay safe, dude.

 

The fire is so intense that the eucalypts are just exploding, in some areas there is nothing left to burn but tree stumps are still smouldering and any breeze ignites them again. If or when the fires join then the sheer size of them will create a weather system under the pyrocumulus clouds with it's own lightning, thunder, cyclonic wind but because there is little moisture no rain.

 

@Merlin Cat
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...8ZdzB-k6uZTw1W5AUXRfZJAJNmBIGKBtKqen-Mt7_-lxQ

 

I’m fine! We’re all off for a stroll up Glastonbury tor later, for a laugh.

 

No hang over like an old person I had a snooze sofa ,that helped the consumption . Spose I owt ta get up soon n have a new year walk int fresh air ,see a few sites I spect

 

I'm too old to get drunk. I like a drink but I know my limits!

 

Don, are people asking why your PM waited so long to get the military mobilised? Seems an awful lot has been left to volunteers up to now?

 

Actually quite refreshed this morning , spent the night in the camper as well which usually exaggerates a hangover for me ... not managed anything to eat yet though ..

 

According to ScuMo helping people isn't the job of the military as they aren't trained for it. Bushfires are usually the remit of volunteer firefighters, although the volunteers aren't getting any younger, the average age of our local brigade is over 50.