Bad,Bad Fire Season going on!

[VE7DCW]

BC is going through one of the worst fire seasons we've seen in almost 50 years going along with the drought that has hammered the western part of North America.I woke up this morning with the skies obliterated in thick smoke from the Port Hardy fire on the north end of Vancouver Island that has only been burning the last couple of days! I tried to take some pictures with my cell phone camera to show you what it was like here outside the house,but my camera won't take the right pictures.....

Click on the link below and see the CBC news story about it from Vancouver with contributed photos from viewers who take accurate pictures of what it's like in the Vancouver area.We are a little worse shape smoke wise,but it is a blessing in one way,the smoke has blocked the sun lowering the air temperature 8 degrees Celsius.A far cry from the 30+ degrees Celsius record temperatures we have been suffering the last 10 days or so! (I suppose this demonstrates the effect of a nuclear winter in theory!) :shock:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/smok...uver-1.3138949

[VE7MGF]

but its a dry winter

[NQ6U]

I can relate to this.

[W2NAP]

step 1 get marshmallows
step 2 go to fire
step 3 ???????
step 4 profit

[VE7DCW]

but its a dry winter

.....but,but Surrey never has a dry summer! Mike.......the Surrey mayor keeps touting it as the promised land,that's if you don't mind dodging all the bullets!

[K0RGR]

We're getting a lot of smoke from those fires here. Our normally blue sky looks overcast, but it's smoke.

It looks like our family camping spot in Alpine Co., CA got torched this year. Maps of the fire show it burning right up to the edge of the lakes we camp on, and
all the campgrounds down below that are ashes now. The damage will likely take a very long time to recover. There had not been a fire back there since I was a
small child, and it didn't get near the lakes, so there was a lot of burnable fuel for this fire - not good for trees. If a fire goes through quickly, the trees can survive.
They half ruined this some years ago when they paved the road to the lakes, but it was still an OK place to camp - just a lot more people now.

[VE7MGF]

there is a wet summer in surrey now just 2 shootings this weekend
really stinks of smoke in delta toay

[VE7DCW]

there is a wet summer in surrey now just 2 shootings this weekend
really stinks of smoke in delta toay

I agree..... the smoke is real bad here in Duncan and ash from the Port Hardy fire is falling like fine snow everywhere! You can literally smell the burning trees from up there.......sad really :(

[N8YX]

I hope the pine beetles and other tree pests lay low this year, else there could be a lot of dead wood to add to the problems.

[N7YA]

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