Guy and gals, I will be disappearing for a few months, due to work commitments. I should say, unfortunate, work commitments. I don't know if you have heard, but Canberra, Australia's national capital had several of it's suburbs devastated by bushfires on Saturday the 18th. Four people died, 300 people were injured and over 400 homes destroyed. One third of the city lost power, water and sewerage for a couple of days. I have been asked to participate in the clean up operation which will probably take several months, so I will be taking my leave of the Forums for a while. If I get the opportunity I will look in occassionally to see how things are going, but in the meantime keep up the good work guys, this is the best WW2 Forum around. Cheers. Sniper _____________ "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." Dave Barry
Major bummer, Sniper! But Good Luck to you! Have a good one, build up Canberra and hopefully we will be seeing you soon!
Good On You Sniper....Do Us proud down in our Capital, help restore those poor folks lives. I hope it wasn't arsonists....I just don't understand how people can get a kick out of doing this to some poor people.....
Those bush fires seem to be causing trouble every now and then, unfotunately. Anyway, take care and come back soon! For the bush fires For your return
Good on you, Sniper. Just got an email from a family friend in Canberra. Fires were apparently started by lightning strikes hitting bushland two weeks ago & then being fanned by high winds and 37 deg C temperatures. She says 'tonight a cool change arrived from the south and it's a blissful 14C' so hopefully the crisis is past..... but she also says the destruction is 'a huge shock to the community'.
Too bad. I hope you get back soon! I really liked your greeting card, Sniper! Now who's going to replace me when I am not at "What happened today?" thread?
