08-22-2023, 06:12 PM
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#281
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally Posted by Nancy
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Omg omg omg omg omg
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08-22-2023, 06:59 PM
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#282
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by taxbuster
Funny you should say that....we arrived in Calgary y'day and everyone told us we smelled like smoke....and whenever I come into our camper it, too, smells smoky. Sheesh.
What a treat, though, being somewhere one can breathe without difficulty!!
It's stopped raining at home, but is supposed to restart again in a few hours and continue most of today and part of tomorrow. Fingers crossed for all of us.
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Hahahaha. It's completely sunny and clear here now
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08-22-2023, 07:54 PM
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#283
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Hahahaha. It's completely sunny and clear here now
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Just heard that from my sis-in-law in SA! It's all about the wind, eh? Oh well...we just started our camping trip a week early really.
Edit: and we got another 4mm overnight. Hopefully both Kelowna and Adams Lake did too.
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Last edited by taxbuster; 08-23-2023 at 07:48 AM.
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08-23-2023, 10:11 AM
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#284
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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we finally got some rain over night - not sure how much. but anything is good!
the air is much improved but it's still smokey. it's so nice and cool right now outside (apparently it's 12C), but with two asthmatics in my house all windows and doors remain closed and my AC just kicked in.
we can now see across the lake again - there are lots of columns of smoke still rising from the mountain. it seems weird to see that and be 'relieved'... but i guess compared to a wall of fire columns of smoke are an improvement.
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08-23-2023, 05:36 PM
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#285
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One of our favourite wineries (Ex Nihilo) was just allowed back to their location on Camp Road in Lake Country. Hoping our friends and neighbours are all OK!!
I don't think people who aren't around it and haven't experienced that kind of stress - whether directly involved or just "close"...dammit...it's like "community PTSD". It's unbelievably discombobulating.
We are always checking the wildfire site, rain, the cameras....the news....ugh...it's just frickin' tough sometimes.
Fortunately it seems that many can take at least a small sigh of relief ... for now...and hope that it continues.
Meanwhile, I picked all my basil at home, transported it in the camper to Calgary (will the Flames please DO something!!!?) and it is now numerous litres of pesto.
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08-25-2023, 06:51 AM
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#286
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The B.C. Wildfire Service has confirmed it temporarily pulled out crews fighting fires in the province's Shuswap region after protesters showed up at an RCMP roadblock Wednesday evening in what police say was an effort to "overwhelm'' the blockade.
Police say protesters challenged officers at the blockade on the Trans-Canada Highway, and "threats of violence'' against emergency workers had prompted the Mounties to increase their presence there.
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They tell officers they do not believe politicians have the right to prevent them using the road, and that it is illegal for the RCMP to block it.
The group, which organized itself on Facebook, had hoped to rally enough support to push through the closure to enter the evacuation zone, saying they planned to support property owners still fighting fires inside.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...946420?cmp=rss
I don't even know what to say on this one....
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08-25-2023, 08:09 AM
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#287
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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In before "I bet they are from Alberta"
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08-25-2023, 08:59 AM
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#288
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
In before "I bet they are from Alberta"
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I bet they all attended Anti-Covid rallies
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08-25-2023, 09:25 AM
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#289
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Location: Virginia
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Are these guys YOHO types that believe the fire situation is either overblown or a false flag intended to propagate the Climate change agenda hoax, and allow the government to have control over who goes down which streets?
Maybe the next time a fire takes out a bridge, don't tell them that is why the road is closed, and they can push through the barricades and it will work like a buffalo jump.
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08-25-2023, 09:57 AM
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#291
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Wildfires are a hoax, the smoke is Soros funded chemtrails. The evacuees are crisis actors so Trudeau can loot hardworking Canadians homes and sell their things to China.
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08-25-2023, 10:04 AM
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#292
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
In before "I bet they are from Alberta"
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This area is weird. There's a ton of granola, move here to live off the land types, then a bunch of NDP types who sold modest trillion dollar homes in Vancouver to move here for more affordable housing and spend the difference, then local hillbillies, and a bunch of retired Alberta oil patch people who have summer cabins in that area. All together it's a very strange mix, but the conspiracy nuts are strong. Just outside of Salmon Arm in Enderby was the area with the lowest vaccination rates in the province. Just two weeks ago there was a protest on the side of the road against teachers sexualizing children (????). Lots of trucks with big Canada flags driven by toothless Cletus. They'll park right beside a Porsche SUV and Mercedes. Just weird
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08-25-2023, 10:10 AM
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#293
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hyperbole Chamber
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It's all a plot by Trudeau to clear land for solar panels.
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08-25-2023, 10:12 AM
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#294
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This area is weird. There's a ton of granola, move here to live off the land types, then a bunch of NDP types who sold modest trillion dollar homes in Vancouver to move here for more affordable housing and spend the difference, then local hillbillies, and a bunch of retired Alberta oil patch people who have summer cabins in that area. All together it's a very strange mix, but the conspiracy nuts are strong. Just outside of Salmon Arm in Enderby was the area with the lowest vaccination rates in the province. Just two weeks ago there was a protest on the side of the road against teachers sexualizing children (????). Lots of trucks with big Canada flags driven by toothless Cletus. They'll park right beside a Porsche SUV and Mercedes. Just weird
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Ya, I never understood the BC saying Alberta is totally redneck thing when interior BC is pretty goddamn redneck itself, probably even moreso. There are some areas that really open your eyes.
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08-25-2023, 10:14 AM
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#295
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Originally Posted by fotze2
Ya, I never understood the BC saying Alberta is totally redneck thing when interior BC is pretty goddamn redneck itself, probably even moreso. There are some areas that really open your eyes.
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It was just taken down, but there was a billboard heading to Vernon from here about "Canadians need to wake up" about some RCMP conspiracy I couldn't quite follow. It was basically a Facebook post on a billboard
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08-25-2023, 10:14 AM
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#296
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by fotze2
Ya, I never understood the BC saying Alberta is totally redneck thing when interior BC is pretty goddamn redneck itself, probably even moreso. There are some areas that really open your eyes.
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Pretty sure the Ram 1500 is the official truck of BC, so that says something
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08-25-2023, 10:51 AM
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#297
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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The Wildfires are a Bill Gates conspiracy to try and track my movements via 5G cell phone towers!
I knew it all along!
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08-25-2023, 11:09 AM
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#298
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by fotze2
Ya, I never understood the BC saying Alberta is totally redneck thing when interior BC is pretty goddamn redneck itself, probably even moreso. There are some areas that really open your eyes.
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You could probably draw a continuous area in interior BC, Washington State, Oregon and include rural Alberta, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming that would have the highest concentration of far right whackos anywhere.
BC, Washington, Oregon and California all seem to have very liberal coasts and very far right wing interiors.
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08-25-2023, 11:10 AM
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#299
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sherwood Park, AB
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Originally Posted by fotze2
Ya, I never understood the BC saying Alberta is totally redneck thing when interior BC is pretty goddamn redneck itself, probably even moreso. There are some areas that really open your eyes.
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Living in the west Kootenays for a decade I can confirm they've got at least as much of a redneck population per capita as Alberta.
Probably even farther down the redneck ladder lol
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08-25-2023, 11:17 AM
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#300
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by indes
Living in the west Kootenays for a decade I can confirm they've got at least as much of a redneck population per capita as Alberta.
Probably even farther down the redneck ladder lol
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I've consistently said that if you leave Victoria/Vancouver farther than your bicycle will take you, you will be astonished.
Most of BC is redneck as hell...Northern BC is essentially Canada's Ozarks.
The reason British Columbians created the 'Alberta Stereotype' was because of Familiarity and Deflection.
Rural BC is hardly alone though, ever been to Rural Ontario or Quebec? Its essentially the same except with a significantly heightened degree of entitlement.
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