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Good morning! Quite the day yesterday, coronation and horse racing, quilting store's open houses, health issues, and all the other stuff. Let us gather round the Coffee Cart to remember yesterday and get ready for today. All is ready, come join in.

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Is the west a place for burning people and their sorts?

Some say burning man festival and the stake was places where? Women were covered so you couldn't see their state of heat in the night!

Heat in the night is potentially a point for a myth to erupt when the tous was doing nothing ... it comes down to that!

The rac eist on ...
 
I am wondering how the air quality is in the area of the fires. They appear to be terrible. Hope a good rain comes soon
 
JayneWonders said:
I am wondering how the air quality is in the area of the fires. They appear to be terrible. Hope a good rain comes soon
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I've seen photos of the Grande Prairie area. The air quality weekly would be off the scale awful. We've experienced a few horrible smokey summers. It's not fun.

A friend just posted this photo. We used to live in Fort St John. For reference, Wonowon is Mile 101 and Dawson Creek is Mile 0 on the Alaska Highway. (Highway 97). We know of people who are near the fires north of Fort St John on the way to Wonowon. It's a worry. I suspect if I could find a map of the Alberta side of the Peace Region, it would look similar. (Hythe and Beaverlodge are in AB)

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Meanwhile, Grand Cache BC is dealing with flooding. Grand Forks is preparing for flooding and I believe has evacuated areas near the river.
 
Never rains but it pours, as they say. Though in the wildfire areas, I suppose that's actually what they want. Less so in the flooded areas.

Ontario has been fairly quiet so far this spring, though maybe fire season is getting underway up North. We don't always hear about it much unless a community is under threat. The flooding on the Thames happened but didn't seem to be any worse than usual this year. Nothing newsworthy, anyhow.
 
Mendalla said:
Never rains but it pours, as they say. Though in the wildfire areas, I suppose that's actually what they want. Less so in the flooded areas.
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I understand that a lot of the flooding in BC is due to snow pack melt from the mountains. Heat is likely a factor there. I just listened to CBC BC news and they said half of BC is under flood watches or warnings. We had a weather warning yesterday that included a warning about the potential for flooding. I suspect this type of warning is included in that stat.

Northern BC could sure use cooler temperatures, less wind and some rain.
 
JayneWonders said:
I am wondering how the air quality is in the area of the fires. They appear to be terrible. Hope a good rain comes soon
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It's actually been ok here, Chemguy is out in the garden right now. Nearby tt's a lot of dry grass fires, tends to burn a bit cleaner and not hang around the same. There are forest fires too, so far we have been fairly lucky here with wind directions.

Surprisingly most of the province currently has good air quality.

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Waterfall said:
Whoa! Like the two sides of God, the wrath and the beautiful. Without the story, that picture is beautiful!
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The whole series is beautiful.

This is one from Moberly Lake, BC. It's the same idea. It's a beautiful photo with terrible reasons for its beauty. Many people have been evacuated not far from there. We believe friends have been evacuated.

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I find these photos a bit "foreign". I am English, where wildfires would never win due to the daily rain. And I live in the basin of a deep mid-Ontario lake, so it gets dry in spots at times (a friend had a spectacular grass fire next to her farm recently), there's usually enough lake effect condensation, and tons of underground streams, to alleviate this. Mendalla, too, yes?
 
We're getting a little to used to the idea of wildfires now. It's quite sad. The island has some protection but isn't immune.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I find these photos a bit "foreign". I am English, where wildfires would never win due to the daily rain. And I live in the basin of a deep mid-Ontario lake, so it gets dry in spots at times (a friend had a spectacular grass fire next to her farm recently), there's usually enough lake effect condensation, and tons of underground streams, to alleviate this. Mendalla, too, yes?
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Yeah, we don't get much wildfire-wise down here, even in a dry summer. I think in Ontario it is more of a problem as you get further North and East, outside the influence of the Great Lakes. Seems to me the Northwest has had some bad fire seasons of late (Thunder Bay to the Manitoba border and northwards from that line).
 
Good morning! For those affected by wildfires, and floods, for friends who may have been evacuated to God knows where, for pics that are beautiful for awful reason, for all other things that come up, we gather around the Coffee Cart in conversation and community. (Those in the area out west, stay safe.) All is ready, come and join in.

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The world is an alien pathetic place given the love-hate situation for cursive script! Such exhibited feelings going on in places ... that some would never speak of and thus the logo ... ineffable! Logo ... that's word eh? Few grasp much 've it and say they know the ultimate ... yet there is no end! Just more to expand into ... mental process is more favourable than economy ... it is stuck with mortal limits! Even credit for that is being squeezed ... emotionally taxing ...

It is a sophisticated study said to be etude of variables we do not know well ... this the hole, abyss? Psyches sink ... more to play with in the drink as things in the bottom of the goblet!
 
Good morning to all. May your day be something that makes you smile at least once, that you laugh at least once, and go hmmmm at least once.
 
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