Thanks mate.
Several relatively good things happened yesterday.
Gigantic clouds of smoke blocked out the sun for most of the day so the temperature stayed in the mid 30's instead of climbing higher, then early in the afternoon the wind dropped and changed direction from north to south-west, pushing the fire away from the city fringes and back into the Mt Lofty Ranges, which also cleared much of the smoke.
My place is completely undamaged and is now out of danger but the fire is still out of control and spreading in all directions.
All roads into the fire area are blocked.
Here are three pics taken from this site.
https://www.facebook.com/SampsonFlatFireSA/timeline1. The map.
On the lower left of this pic is a pink area defining the outer north-eastern suburbs. This is where I live.
2. The road into the beautiful town of Gumeracha. Taken yesterday.
3. The smoke plume yesterday, taken from near the small town of One Tree Hill.
Emergency evacuation centers have been set up to care for people forced to evacuate their homes.
Similarly emergency centers have been established to care for any lost/injured animals trying to escape from the fire.
The people and businesses of Adelaide have come in their thousands to provide food, drink and shelter to anyone/anything in need.
Special praise and thanks has to be made for the heroic efforts of the firefighters both on land and in the air.
Estimates of property damage cannot be made yet because it's just too dangerous to go and look and the smoke blocks any attempt from the air.
There are injuries but thankfully no reports of any deaths at this stage.
The weather over the next couple of days looks fairly benign but on Wednesday the forecast is for high temperatures and strong winds again.
No rain is forecast.
Hopefully the fire will be contained by then, but if not we face more critical times.
I don't know when things will get back to normal but I'll try to let you know what's going on.
I'm dying to take some time off to watch Fucking Åmål again.