Stu Box
11th February 2009, 6.46 am
Hi everyone
Its been a full on few days for us as we were in the firing line from the Bunyip state park fire near Melbourne which I became aware of on fri arvo.
The Circle Duo (Gina and I) had a gig that night in Melb so I left my fiance, Robyn to pack her valuables and get rid of the kids, I got back from the gig and started packing from 3am sat morn fully aware of what destruction was possible. I had much stock including 60 Box guitars, 10's of thousands of bottles for my other products and 100's of stomp boxes in the workshop. moving all this was my main focus as well as saving all my music gear and studio. we had a few trailers and 4 cars loaded by mid morning leaving all the furniture, tools and machinery behind etc, then worked our arses off cleaning up and filling gutters with water. by 11am the N/W winds hit and we were out of there.
We came back at different stages just before and just after the fire went through. 9pm that night we snuck in a little ways to see if we could get back home but everything was still burning so we turned back.
6am next morning we snuck in the back way to avoid police rd blocks and driving up the hill to our place we thought there was no conceivable way it was going to be standing. we came around the last corner and behold our place was like an oasis in the middle of a war zone.
We wandered around in dazed disbelief trying to figure how it was possible (my force field had worked)
We then drove back down the hill to our dearest friends Ben and Jules (Ben is in the live Circle outfit).
We knew their place had gone by then and I drove up a trk to were his farm sheds and dairy were.
Its was like a scene out of a movie. everything had burnt except the milking shed. Ben had already hired a generator, had the cows rounded up and was milking them except there were no fences and all the paddocks were burnt black and still smouldering.
Ben said he didn't know what else to do but milk.
They had lost everything except a few personal items but were alive. since then feed and water has been donated to them so they are kicking along. (cant keep a good Aussy down)
The Circle will be doing a number of charity gigs over the coming weeks to donate to victims and to all our close friends who lost everything.
We are the lucky ones as there has been a huge number of tragic losses.
Take care all
Stu Box
The Circle
www.myspace.com/stubox
www.myspace.com/thecircle
Its been a full on few days for us as we were in the firing line from the Bunyip state park fire near Melbourne which I became aware of on fri arvo.
The Circle Duo (Gina and I) had a gig that night in Melb so I left my fiance, Robyn to pack her valuables and get rid of the kids, I got back from the gig and started packing from 3am sat morn fully aware of what destruction was possible. I had much stock including 60 Box guitars, 10's of thousands of bottles for my other products and 100's of stomp boxes in the workshop. moving all this was my main focus as well as saving all my music gear and studio. we had a few trailers and 4 cars loaded by mid morning leaving all the furniture, tools and machinery behind etc, then worked our arses off cleaning up and filling gutters with water. by 11am the N/W winds hit and we were out of there.
We came back at different stages just before and just after the fire went through. 9pm that night we snuck in a little ways to see if we could get back home but everything was still burning so we turned back.
6am next morning we snuck in the back way to avoid police rd blocks and driving up the hill to our place we thought there was no conceivable way it was going to be standing. we came around the last corner and behold our place was like an oasis in the middle of a war zone.
We wandered around in dazed disbelief trying to figure how it was possible (my force field had worked)
We then drove back down the hill to our dearest friends Ben and Jules (Ben is in the live Circle outfit).
We knew their place had gone by then and I drove up a trk to were his farm sheds and dairy were.
Its was like a scene out of a movie. everything had burnt except the milking shed. Ben had already hired a generator, had the cows rounded up and was milking them except there were no fences and all the paddocks were burnt black and still smouldering.
Ben said he didn't know what else to do but milk.
They had lost everything except a few personal items but were alive. since then feed and water has been donated to them so they are kicking along. (cant keep a good Aussy down)
The Circle will be doing a number of charity gigs over the coming weeks to donate to victims and to all our close friends who lost everything.
We are the lucky ones as there has been a huge number of tragic losses.
Take care all
Stu Box
The Circle
www.myspace.com/stubox
www.myspace.com/thecircle