Tuesday 5.2.19   2004
All the Emergency warnings are now lifted for the State though quite a few fires are still uncontrolled.  Firies are working on back burning and clearing containment lines.  Water bombing is continuing.  Several villages near us are still under Watch and Act notices but we are at Advice level.
All told, the fires have burned over 200000ha (500000 acres) so far across the State over the past month.  And north Queensland is having record floods.  Townsville, where we lived for a while, has had more than a metre of rain over the past few days and the Leichardt River is running a banker n the Isa (where we also used to live.)  The river at Cloncurry is mad!  And Julia Creek had over 230mm of rain in 24 hours.  At Julia Creek!
Here, we had a gentle Nor' Easter today which kept the smoke away so Sue and I picked fruit (about 10 kg of plums and nectarines - Golden Drop and Greengage plums, mmmm!)
We have rain forecast from tomorrow night, for several days.  Hopefully, it will fall in the fire zone and surrounds.