Anyone else in Vic copping this wind?

[bushies.girl]

Gusting at 70 km/h here atm, not liking it at all

[nicnacs_4u]

yes and it`s B......y hot too!!

[bushies.girl]

Cooling down here but the wind is horrible, hit 90m/h a short time ago, power keeps going on n off

[imastawka]

Hot wind gusting at 65km/h and temp is still 29

[bushies.girl]

Dropped to 21 here, wind is gusting at around 85 - 90m/h , going to be a quite few trees down, hope none come down on the highway   ..... had a cpl of sm blackouts, wont be surpised if they are more    ....... Noticed the lights are on up at the firestation, am guessing they have a crew standing by , in case they are needed.

[brerrabbit585]

There's a string of fires across the south west of Victoria.  I lost count at about 23 but there were several more after that.  I'm 40 km from the nearest one but a friend emailed and said her son is only 10 kms from a couple of them and he's already left.  The sky is pretty red down south!

[bushies.girl]

Oh that doesnt sound good, I am in SW Vic as well    ....... havent heard the siren go off but there are lights on down at the fire station

[brerrabbit585]

Have a look at the website. 

http://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/?=&bbox=141.9927978515625%2C-38.62116234642252%2C144.75860595703...

There are fires from Colac right across to the SA border, but it's worst just south of Camperdown.  I don't think there's any grass left to burn in the rest of the state, hence the fires being only in the south.

[bushies.girl]

I've keeping an eye on that site, not much grass left over my way, most of the paddocks are down to bare dirt  ....  Trees falling across the highway are a huge concern atm   ..... We really need rain and heaps of it

[bushies.girl]

How is going over your way? Doesnt look good atm   .... Noticed Warrnambool has opened an evacuation centre  ..... Worrying time for quite a few folk  in the surrounding areas