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General Discussion => The Flea Trap => Topic started by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:16:01 AM

Title: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:16:01 AM
Anyone following what's going on with all the massive fires burning right now in B.C. and in other provinces too? Here's some pics, def not the air quality we are used to:



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http://globalnews.ca/news/2093425/photos-fires-create-haze-blanketing-b-c-in-sea-of-yellow-and-orange/
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:16:55 AM
Ooops some didn't turn out  ac_blush
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 12:18:37 AM
We have one an hour away.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:18:46 AM
Multiple fires in Pemberton explode in growth overnight

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My son is going up there to work next week  ac_crying
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Bricktop on July 06, 2015, 12:20:01 AM
Bad news...I believe your fires are as catastrophic and destructive as ours.



Hope you can put them out soon.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:26:22 AM
Dangit! Why is my computer being so sucky? Anyways, my pc is not as important as what's happening with the forest fires. The trees, the animals, the homes, the people, the air quality, the water restrictions....From where I am we can't see anything beyond a few miles and no mountains are visible anymore.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 12:27:21 AM
Tis the season Annie.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2015, 12:33:17 AM
Quote from: "RW"We have one an hour away.


We can smell it from Burnaby Mountain, very heavy. How's your air quality?
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Anonymous on July 06, 2015, 12:25:05 PM
Winds changed and places like Yorkton, Saskatchewan made it hard to breathe outside the other day. Reminds me of the Slave Lake, Alberta fires of a few years ago. Winds changed and sent all that smoke South over Edmonton. It blocked out the sun and had people choking.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 12:53:02 PM
Quote from: "GrAnnie"
Quote from: "RW"We have one an hour away.


We can smell it from Burnaby Mountain, very heavy. How's your air quality?

Ours is still pretty good but one change in the winds and we'll be smelling campfire.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Anonymous on July 06, 2015, 01:22:27 PM
Quote from: "RW"
Quote from: "GrAnnie"
Quote from: "RW"We have one an hour away.


We can smell it from Burnaby Mountain, very heavy. How's your air quality?

Ours is still pretty good but one change in the winds and we'll be smelling campfire.

It can happen in a real hurry too.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Frood on July 06, 2015, 01:26:07 PM
There was a family not too far away from here who had built a concrete fire refuge with electrical connection and everything. When the fires ripped through a few years ago, the heat melted the electrical wires within the fortification walls and began sucking out valuable oxygen from the enclosure while the man of the house did his best to plug the holes and keep his family breathing. Fire is unpredictable. Lots of people died on that day.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 02:10:32 PM
This is our local one

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Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Frood on July 06, 2015, 02:27:16 PM
Holy shit that's a lot of fuel. Our shit gets burnt and grows better because of it. Do your burnt trees still grow after the fire or is that it for them?
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 02:30:26 PM
That's usually it for our trees but we get great new growth all around them.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Anonymous on July 06, 2015, 05:34:07 PM
Quote from: "RW"This is our local one

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Wowsers RW. I hope you get a lot of rain soon out West.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Bricktop on July 06, 2015, 08:00:37 PM
Terrifying. And all you can do is sit, watch and hope.



Stay safe, y'all.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 08:02:58 PM
We need to get our Martin Mars bombers on these fires.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Bricktop on July 06, 2015, 08:07:30 PM
And prepare to evacuate...



And don't think...not for one minute...that it won't happen where you live.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: RW on July 06, 2015, 08:09:54 PM
I don't think that for one minute.  We've had BIG fires very close to home.
Title: Re: B.C. Fires
Post by: Annie on July 07, 2015, 12:09:28 AM
Holy shit RW, you're a lot closer to a major fire than I thought. It's quite smoggy and a little hard to breath here but we don't see the flames at least.
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