Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Finally have my camera back!!

I finally got my luggage and camera back. Here are a few pictures looking out our hotel window. This was the first 2 hours of the fire. After that we thought they had it under control and headed out to our family's house in Glenrosa. In that 10 minutes it grew from 10 hectares to 50, jumped the highway and was making it's way down the mountain right above us. That's when we were evacuated.

about an hour in:

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it didn't take long though for it to spread and really get going
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these guys were amazing!!
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this was the sun around 5 in the afternoon
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5 comments:

  1. very cool shots Leslie - love the water bomber shot. Glad you're all safe - is your house okay?

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  2. You must have been pretty close to get these great shots!

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  3. thanks Laureen :) Our family down there was just finally today able to go back and thankfully their house was OK. It came pretty close though.

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  4. hey its miranda,
    im happy you got your camera back you sould send thouse in to the news so ppl can see how bad it is
    love tya

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