Comments on: Marysville minute by minute: an eyewitness to disaster http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hlinstead http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/#comment-4973 hlinstead Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4973 A really chilling account. I felt your rising tension and fear. So glad you got out safely. A really chilling account. I felt your rising tension and fear. So glad you got out safely.

]]> By: Deborah Searle http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/#comment-4974 Deborah Searle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4974 Gripping reading - but did the house survive? Gripping reading - but did the house survive?

]]> By: Marilyn http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/#comment-4975 Marilyn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4975 I was listening to 774 until 5 am and enjoying the cool change in Adelaide after 12 days with an average temperature of 105.6 and no-one had any idea what had happened.<br /><br />People were phoning the station from all over the country and there was simply no news to report.<br /><br />It was like living in the twilight zone when I woke on Sunday afternoon to hear that so many towns had been obliterated. I was listening to 774 until 5 am and enjoying the cool change in Adelaide after 12 days with an average temperature of 105.6 and no-one had any idea what had happened.

People were phoning the station from all over the country and there was simply no news to report.

It was like living in the twilight zone when I woke on Sunday afternoon to hear that so many towns had been obliterated.

]]> By: belinda s http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/#comment-4976 belinda s Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4976 I'm glad that you and Peter and Peril made it out safely! <br />Sorry about our FoodWorks store being closed early, but you will be happy to know that all my staff made it out safely in the end! All are now homeless, only one staff member got away in her car with her sons, and the others spent the night on Gallipoli Park as the town burnt around them! One of my junior staff members mother and brother died in the fire, while her older brother and father were on the local CFA truck saving houses and lives! We are going to rebuild our FoodWorks store, and all our staff are coming back to rebuild there lives and homes, we are one big family, and our love for each other, and our town and our customers will reflect this! I hope that your friends will rebuild there home, and that they are safe and well, it will be wonderful too see you one day, in our new store so please come in and say hello :) I’m glad that you and Peter and Peril made it out safely!
Sorry about our FoodWorks store being closed early, but you will be happy to know that all my staff made it out safely in the end! All are now homeless, only one staff member got away in her car with her sons, and the others spent the night on Gallipoli Park as the town burnt around them! One of my junior staff members mother and brother died in the fire, while her older brother and father were on the local CFA truck saving houses and lives! We are going to rebuild our FoodWorks store, and all our staff are coming back to rebuild there lives and homes, we are one big family, and our love for each other, and our town and our customers will reflect this! I hope that your friends will rebuild there home, and that they are safe and well, it will be wonderful too see you one day, in our new store so please come in and say hello :)

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/marysville-minute-by-minute-an-eyewitness-to-disaster/#comment-4977 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-4977 Full of suspense and foreboding. Well done leaving safely. 4 Corners last night would have scared you all over again.<br /><br /> Full of suspense and foreboding. Well done leaving safely. 4 Corners last night would have scared you all over again.

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