tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post5088120816033678527..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: A sizzling Saturday - extreme heat, breezeways and the meaning of catastrophic fire dangerJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-34351564844081584402017-02-15T17:55:54.691+11:002017-02-15T17:55:54.691+11:00I agree with you
I agree with you<br />Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-61025997199566771652017-02-13T11:28:48.962+11:002017-02-13T11:28:48.962+11:00The Tuscan style came to Canberra about a decade a...The Tuscan style came to Canberra about a decade ago. Tile roof (usually black!) with eaves about 6 inches wide, or no eaves at all, just a gutter. At the time I viewed it as yet another way for builders to cut costs. Hate to live in one.<br />2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-73812998037799231432017-02-13T07:18:13.004+11:002017-02-13T07:18:13.004+11:00Morning, 2t. Interesting comment on the houses. By...Morning, 2t. Interesting comment on the houses. By Tuscan,do you mean what we used to call Italian modern as compared to Yugoslav Gothic? Intuitively, I would have assumed tuscan style to be suitable for hot weather. Mind you, having just done a web search and looked at some modern examples, not at all sure of that!<br /><br />Many gums do shed branches even at the best of times. Totally sympathise re walking around in winds! Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-78774150299357495552017-02-12T18:41:14.223+11:002017-02-12T18:41:14.223+11:00It has been reasonably hot in Canberra too. I miss...It has been reasonably hot in Canberra too. I miss those old verandahs! We have a deck, but the roof isn't tin, it's translucent plastic which doesn't help much in this weather. In a piece of nanny-statism the result of which I quite like, the ACT has forced homeowners to show how well their houses are passively heated/cooled when they come to sell. Owners of 'Tuscan' style houses have to admit that you need heating and cooling year round - i.e. you might like the look but you'll pay for it in cash or, in the case of a blackout, in discomfort. Mind you, my west facing fibro house complete with tin roof rates 0.5 on the 6 point scale so that'll come back to bite me one day!<br /><br />Just to get it off the table, the disaster scenario for climate change is a world-wide average 4 degree rise. Not a blistering day in Forbes, however uncomfortable that may be. Back to the current weather...<br /><br />The heat and high winds have led to brittle gums (can't remember their proper name) snapping off sizeable branches all over our neighbourhood. I tend not to walk in high winds at the moment - some of those branches are a hundredweight or more. And I remember the tar bubbling in the streets of Adelaide as a more-or-less annual event.2 tannersnoreply@blogger.com