Heat in Manila

 

I am now a bit more organised with some footage of the recent heat we felt in Manila. As previously reported the ITI hangar was very close to a fire outbreak that threatened our passage through to Boracay.  This is the first time I have added a video to my blog so I have had to reduce the HD. 

 

 

 

Fire Site Revisited

Long weekend internet access means I'm typing this on a tablet with wifi slow connection speeds. This is a laborious exercise.  Am just proving to myself that mobile updates are possible. Tally Ho then. Visited my sister in Darawiet Guim. The fires there earlier in the year were nasty. They had good preparations with very little excess fuel,

 

eg keep your grass shorn to the ground and radiate out as far as you can and I mean 100 metres and more. When the fire got to that boundary it basically stopped as there was nothing to burn.  That didn't stop embers from hitting nearby trees and the house itself.

Also having a water tank on the back of the ute allowed for putting out spot fires. This went on for four days. The greenery has returned now but there are still some fences that need to be repaired.