[housewife]

Glad to hear you got the pets taken care of. Last move I drove 8 hours with 2 cats and a dog one of the cats screamed the whole way. She lost her voice but kept on screaming!

[BRAH]

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The Canadian Rockies in BC.

[Strutz]

herbie herbie:

Got to my daughter's house in PG good God the smoke here was worse than next to the fire! It's lifting this morning though.
On the way out there was a convoy of at least 20 cop vehicles headed to the Fort, something major is up. They laid this huge pipeline all down the other side of the lake, but you can't drive over it once it's filled, I think they're about to order everyone there to evacuate.
No pet carriers anywhere, the damn cat cried all the way here. Shout out for Petland, the PG store set him up with a proper size carrier, harness and nametags for him and the puppy.

Glad you made it to PG. Hopefully all goes well back home and you can return soon.

herbie herbie:

Women.
Popped into the store to talk to the old lady. She remarks, in front of all the staff and customers I suppose you haven't had time to sweep the floor yet?

You know, in case the fucking house burns down with a dirty floor....

LOL. In her defence I can relate as I'd probably be the same way. Leave no dishes in the sink either!

[Public_Domain]

[xerxes]

After a clear days here on the coast, the smoke rolled in again turning the sky into a smoky, hazy mess. And it turned the air into a weapon for people with asthma like me.

[herbie]

We took off and went out to Terrace instead to the step daughter's. Grandkid had to return there from PG anyway in a few days.
Beautifully clear, hot and sunny here but that was another 700 km drive. Said fuck it today and had a $20 halibut lunch. The evac center here isnt open until tomorrow. Enjoying telling people "I em domestic refugeeee"
Streamed a TOwn Hall from home this morning, things more stable but they said if you've left dont come back yet.
One local mill decided to stay shut down til its over and paid everyone $1000 emergency pay!

[housewife]

Wow but a really sucky way to get vacation

[Tricks]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

Doot doo do, it'd be such a beautiful day, if only the sun wasn't a muted red dwarf floating in an all-consuming expanse of cumstain-coloured clouds.

That was a vivid description.

[herbie]

Lack of info and official indecisiveness is so frustrating.
Get children and people with breathing problems out NOW! The road could be cut off at any second!
3 days later... you weren't officially ordered to evacuate... but don't come back, you'll be in the way and might have to leave again at a moment's notice!
6 tanks of gas, hours of driving, crashing on couches and eating out, freaked out animals.
Going to gov't office shortly to see WTF is going on. Trying to do all this on a pension its getting tight. Kitty cat and I would like to be back in our own house, hard to treat this like a vacation when it's unplanned, unbudgeted and the pets have to tag along.

[Hyack]

The sky is still somewhat grey but the Sun has managed to break through the haze and is actually the yellow sphere it usually was before the fire season started.

[Robair]

Blow smoke back to BC

$1:

A satirical battle of hot air is gathering steam in Spokane, Wash.

A Facebook event calling on “Spokanites” to put fans on their roofs and blow wildfire smoke to B.C. is being taken seriously by some.

The tongue in cheek event is scheduled for Friday at noon.

“To get rid of this smoke, we have to work together as a community,” the event’s description reads. “After much deliberation and mathematical calculation, we have figured that it is absolutely possible for us to blow this smoke away with high-powered fans.”

Organizer Caleb Moon says he and some friends came up with the idea while they were hunkered down indoors, away from the smoke.

“It was just a silly idea, so we decided to make this whole Facebook event for our friends not thinking that it would actually take off and people would believe it,” he told CTV.

He posted the event Sunday evening, and as of Wednesday morning it had more than 1,500 people saying they would take part.

“Team work makes the dream work. Let’s do this, Spokanites. Let’s send this smoke right back to those Canucks!" the page says.

Suck It Spokane!

$1:

We want to help our neighbours down south get rid of their smoke (and let's face it, our own, too!). So we have done no real math or calculations but we know how vaccuums work (kind of) and we urge every Pentictonite to get their Vacs out and aim them high in the sky to suck the smoke out as Spokane tries to send it our way!

[DrCaleb]

I lol'd when I read that.

[Strutz]

Today is awful here. The smoke is pretty much at ground level and you can barely see a couple of blocks away because the haze is so thick. Normally from my deck I can see the incoming and outgoing flights to YVR to the north of me. A few days ago they became a blurry outline of a plane and today absolutely no view of them at all, unless all flights are going in/out from the western side of the airport.


I noticed this article today and herbie might be already aware of this since it's happening in his area.

$1:

B.C. Wildfire Service tests out new products to battle wildfires

With 563 wildfires burning in B.C., the province is looking at whether it can take advantage of a number of new firefighting technologies.

But as the senior officer of research and innovation with the service, Mike McCulley, told Daybreak Kamloops host, Shelley Joyce, "just because something sounds great, doesn't mean it is great."

McCulley says his team is constantly testing out new technologies to see whether they could be effectively implemented into its disaster response.

Right now, he's in Fort St. James testing out the Safeguard sprinkler systems.

In an effort to protect the town from the nearby Shovel Lake fire, Safeguard, along with McCulley has deployed a system that uses 120 water sprinkler cannons — some of which can pump out up to 1,250 gallons of water per minute — to create a more than 180-metre-wide water curtain between the wildfire and the town.

"We are ready to go at a moments notice should the fire get any closer to Fort St. James," said Safeguard Safety owner John Kelly.

Kelly say it's a substantial system.

"it's the biggest mass water sprinkler curtain for municipal protection that North America has ever seen."

Because of its size, the B.C. Wildfire Service's McCulley says it's difficult to find the opportune moment to really test it out.

He says that with the unpredictable nature of fires "we just don't get those windows" to set up large response systems.

And without properly testing a product, McCulley can't determine whether to add it to its defensive measures.

More here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.4795354

[herbie]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I lol'd when I read that.

It's fucking Facebook. Even more effort required to skim out the idiots and assholes!

Posted on a FB info group that they were no longer giving out vouchers for self-evacuees. Goddam response was instant, I was full of shit, so and so just said they got a week's vouchers, so and so's sister heard that so and so got a 3 day voucher.
I went to the evac center, we only got one yesterday because they didn't open until AFTER most motel & hotel checkout times. Somebody forgot that little tidbit when they made up "policy".
The lady on crutches ahead of us got one no problem, self-evacuation for health reasons because your throat might get sore from smoke doesn't cut it, especially when no matter where you go, it's smoky! SO the 20 something after us didn't get a voucher.
People were posting methods to appeal and what gov't official to call....
like if you're able to wheedle and whine all fucking day you ain't away for legit health reasons!
I had to post I was coming home because I wanted to and only let cuz the wife succumbed to the fucking panic you assholes were spreading. Yeah she has asthma but she hasn't pulled her fucking inhaler out once in the last week!
I regret leaving when I could've stayed and volunteered to help with something, she does too as she could've stayed and help keep the supermarket running when all but the managers ran away. Guilted out maybe when she heard 2 dozen townspeople from the volunteer center showed up to unload the supply truck that got though and stocked the shelves.

[BRAH]

It seems to be getting worse, is there any end in sight?