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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Hope none of our Canadian crunchers are caught up in this. I hope they can get it under control soon. Canadian fire still rages after 7 days |
BladeD Send message Joined: 9 Aug 11 Posts: 13320 Credit: 1,603,919 RAC: 2 |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Sounds like cooler temperatures and some light rain are helping the firefighters get a better handle on things. Best wishes to all who have been affected. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Wow what a week! First we had a fire to the north, then very quickly every one was caught up in the fear, and the pressing need to do as much as possible soon enough. We have every one housed, and hopefully with as little loss of life as possible. We have lost two young girls to a road accident. When the fire fighters found out about that, they then made a special effort to save their home so the family would not be with out the material reminders of their lives. We have had an outbreak of dysentery in three areas of the province, medical people are working to limit how far it may get. Canada thanks the world for all the kind offers of help, Alberta thanks the rest of Canada for every kindness. We need the help. Lastly Alberta is proud at the unselfish rush to help shown by all of us not in the fire zone. We tell ourselves that we are special, this week we have been special. Canada is a tough country to live in, sometimes it just sort of jumps up and bites you. Thanks to all of you for your kind concerns and offers of help. We will get there! |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I have a Calgary friend who has told me some politics are involved and I can't quote him here because it would be moderated. Seriously. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Canada Fort McMurray: Leader says 90% of city survived. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36253444 But seeing all this pictures from there when its looks like a warzone... |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Maybe your friend shouldn't listen to them? Some people always find time to complain. Now is the time for helping! |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65746 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Maybe your friend shouldn't listen to them? +1 The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Some people always find time to I totally agree. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Maybe your friend shouldn't listen to them? +1 We had a big forest fire here as well some years ago. We even got help from Italy and France! |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
That is a Canadair plane with 2 turboprop engines. I have seen it practicing in Liguria to swoop up water from the sea. Tullio |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I have a Calgary friend who has told me some politics are involved and I can't quote him here because it would be moderated. Seriously. Do people really believe the trees and bushes paid attention to who was in power? Until somebody shows me an untouched photo of an elected Member of Parliament lighting the fire, these articles are unworthy of discussion. BTW, some of these articles are from the same blogs and e-magazines that blame the current Alberta government for causing the world collapse of oil prices that occurred several months before the party was elected. Logic and serious thinking is clearly lacking. If you want to find a human link, blame global climate change. Rising temperatures and changing moisture patterns are changing how the fire behave, but the fires have been there since the end of the last ice age, maybe even earlier. Another human change is the spread of cities and towns into what used to wilderness. There have been fires this large in northern Alberta in the past, they just never ran into significant human presence before they burned themselves out. BTW, if we blame climate change and the spread of urbanization, who carries the most blame: the current party (in for 9 months) or the previous party (in for 41 years before that)? |
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