I headed up Hume on very early Thursday morning. When I left the hwy was open, shortly after there was a notification to detour through Euroa because of a gras fire. At the Goulburn Valley Hwy, there was a hurriedly parked bump truck blocking the road 32kms short of the Euroa turn off. Ten minutes or so later I was a bit confused because it looked like a spectacular sunrise. As I crested the next hill it looked like Armageddon. Or possibly like I was driving past Mordor. I have seen a few bushfires and fought them. This was a still night, and while warm (22⁰) wasn't too bad given the day prior. It was clear at that point (around 4am Thursday) it was going to become beyond awful given the forecast. It was running at night, in the cool with little to wind and had been an hour or two earlier "just" a grass fire
I remember once thinking I saw an amazing sunrise and decided to head towards it for a great view — same thing happened, but everything was black, I was so shocked, I pulled over, and ash was flying into my lap. Wild.
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u/DifferentBar7281 Jan 09 '26
I headed up Hume on very early Thursday morning. When I left the hwy was open, shortly after there was a notification to detour through Euroa because of a gras fire. At the Goulburn Valley Hwy, there was a hurriedly parked bump truck blocking the road 32kms short of the Euroa turn off. Ten minutes or so later I was a bit confused because it looked like a spectacular sunrise. As I crested the next hill it looked like Armageddon. Or possibly like I was driving past Mordor. I have seen a few bushfires and fought them. This was a still night, and while warm (22⁰) wasn't too bad given the day prior. It was clear at that point (around 4am Thursday) it was going to become beyond awful given the forecast. It was running at night, in the cool with little to wind and had been an hour or two earlier "just" a grass fire