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"Lana Wolstencroft should have been walking down the aisle towards her high
school sweetheart, Todd Byrnes, on Saturday afternoon. Instead, the pair were
at the Mansfield showgrounds, standing in the sun as the smoke haze from a
devastating bushfire lifted.
“The fire just kept developing,” Wolstencroft says. “So we were like, we’re
just going to have to watch this, see how it goes.
“And then yesterday we resigned ourselves to the fact that it was going to have
to be cancelled. But we’ve been together 22 years, so it’s not …” She trails
off before Byrnes jumps in – “Another week’s all right.” They both laugh.
Saturday brought a sliver of relief with cooler weather, after temperatures
climbed as high as 46C on Friday afternoon as a heatwave gripped Victoria.
Winds carried ash and smoke to inner Melbourne suburbs, and an orange sun
burned in the grey sky – but fires continued to rage across the state, with
authorities warning they could burn for weeks. More than 100 buildings were
reported to be destroyed and in excess of 300,000 hectares (74,000 acres)
burned."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
