Thanks Tish. If there is an evacuation order, we are out of here. The alert boundary is about 400m to the west on the other side of the river.
I would never put the firefighters at any additional risk by sticking around. They have enough to worry about protecting critical infrastructure and homes. The last thing they need is to be unnecessarily placed in danger because someone didn’t heed the evacuation warning and then needed rescuing, reports of which happened last night in West Kelowna
Thanks Tish. If there is an evacuation order, we are out of here. The alert boundary is about 400m to the west on the other side of the river.
I would never put the firefighters at any additional risk by sticking around. They have enough to worry about protecting critical infrastructure and homes. The last thing they need is to be unnecessarily placed in danger because someone didn’t heed the evacuation warning and then needed rescuing, reports of which happened last night in West Kelowna
Stay safe!
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Thanks Tish. If there is an evacuation order, we are out of here. The alert boundary is about 400m to the west on the other side of the river.
I would never put the firefighters at any additional risk by sticking around. They have enough to worry about protecting critical infrastructure and homes. The last thing they need is to be unnecessarily placed in danger because someone didn’t heed the evacuation warning and then needed rescuing, reports of which happened last night in West Kelowna
Cooler temps are helping the firefighters. Had two friends stay here last night who were evacuated from West Kelowna last night. Things are still pretty tenuous
There are other places in bad shape as well. Some areas further north in the Shushwap. Overall, 35,000 British Columbians are currently evacuated with 30,000 more on alert.
A good news story is that the firefighters saved a brand new $75M water treatment facility with $10,000 worth of sprinklers and pumps. The flames were over top of the structure. True professionals those firefighters.
Wishing you and yours good luck and helpful winds to get the fire away (rain is probably too much to hope for right now). I have several relatives leaving Kelowna now, one couple who just purchased their Kelowna home last fall. I can’t imagine how scary it must be to see that smoke and those flames come closer
We have been so fortunate in Victoria and most areas of the Island this summer. I almost feel guilty for how easy our summer has been compared to tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of other British Columbians and Canadians in other provinces.
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Best wishes to your loved ones in Kelowna often. I live about 90 minutes south of downtown Kelowna in the narrowest part of the Okanagan valley and the smoke is so thick down here you don’t want to be outside.
Best wishes to your loved ones in Kelowna often. I live about 90 minutes south of downtown Kelowna in the narrowest part of the Okanagan valley and the smoke is so thick down here you don’t want to be outside.
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Thank you. My cousin and her husband, who have the new house, are with other family locally so who knows how long that will last. The other set have decided to drive back up to Prince George for the duration.
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Hi oftenreading, Thanks for reaching out in a pm. After reading your inquiry to TK1 I felt left out!
I returned home because so many communities sent firemen and equipment to help stave off the fire and keep travel corridors open thus far, even though the fires are still out of control. I'm glad I have air purifiers to cleanse our air in the home and that we have a home, too!
Hi oftenreading, Thanks for reaching out in a pm. After reading your inquiry to TK1 I felt left out!
I returned home because so many communities sent firemen and equipment to help stave off the fire and keep travel corridors open thus far, even though the fires are still out of control. I'm glad I have air purifiers to cleanse our air in the home and that we have a home, too!
No intention to leave you out, Tish! In my brain it made sense to ask after 1T here, since it's his thread, and pm you directly in case you weren't checking this thread, but I readily admit my thought process may be opaque to some . Good to hear your home is safe - I hope it remains so.
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^ Damn my fickle clairvoyancy powers. And my inability to comprehend translucent, transparent, and opaque definitions without my hippocampus revisting synaptic neural networks from grade six science with the freaky teacher (and my first employer) who had a red spot in his eye, Mr. Paine.
I had booked (but cancelled) some Juan de Fuca (is that spanish ffs) camping this summer in case our air quality petered out sooner... I'll get Pipsqueak on a ferry and into a surfing hat and booties, yet! Enjoy the island summer!
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Wonder what the locals called it?
Ahhh... I guess I should say I was going to visit the Coast Salish.
I can’t clairvoy worth shit either, Tish
Sorry to cause an unnecessary reminder of Paine
I have done some camping in various areas of the Island, both back country and front country (family-friendly). PM me if you have any questions that I might be able to answer.
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Currently, back to thread integrity, I'm discussing with my daughter how her first overnight summer camp, where she found summer love (true love forever) a few weeks back just burned 90% down (based on images taken from boats, since it's evacuated still) while wondering about the school district email about evolving learning environments if some schools don't start up after labour day.
Nothing has changed here often. Weather is somewhat cooperating (cooler, no wind) but the full extent of the damage has yet to be determined. The smoke is still incredibly thick. The folks up around the Shuswap area have dealt with a pair of fires that combined to form an estimated 410 km2 in size. The fire about 10km from me is still out of control, estimated to be about 1100 hectares. We remain just outside the evacuation alert zone.
Stories of some West Kelowna firefighters who continue to work even though they are completely aware they have lost their own homes. The Fire Chief mentioned some of the burned trees were ripped out of the ground by the force of the fire and winds.
To top it off, the first tropical storm to hit California in 8 decades gets pushed north by a mid-west US high pressure system, unfortunately very little rain will reach these fires. To everyone in California affected by the flooding and earthquake, my thoughts are with you, it is a shame Mother Earth didn’t save some of that precipitation for the BC interior.
^ I hope you can get outside for some fresh air soon!!! I'm starting today in the yard listening to the group of people with no shelter chat in the bordering park. Puppy will get an outing soon!
Nothing has changed here often. Weather is somewhat cooperating (cooler, no wind) but the full extent of the damage has yet to be determined. The smoke is still incredibly thick. The folks up around the Shuswap area have dealt with a pair of fires that combined to form an estimated 410 km2 in size. The fire about 10km from me is still out of control, estimated to be about 1100 hectares. We remain just outside the evacuation alert zone.
Stories of some West Kelowna firefighters who continue to work even though they are completely aware they have lost their own homes. The Fire Chief mentioned some of the burned trees were ripped out of the ground by the force of the fire and winds.
To top it off, the first tropical storm to hit California in 8 decades gets pushed north by a mid-west US high pressure system, unfortunately very little rain will reach these fires. To everyone in California affected by the flooding and earthquake, my thoughts are with you, it is a shame Mother Earth didn’t save some of that precipitation for the BC interior.
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There are other places in bad shape as well. Some areas further north in the Shushwap. Overall, 35,000 British Columbians are currently evacuated with 30,000 more on alert.
https://www.castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/442499/McDougall-Creek-fire-behaviour-appears-to-have-calmed-Saturday-morning
A good news story is that the firefighters saved a brand new $75M water treatment facility with $10,000 worth of sprinklers and pumps. The flames were over top of the structure. True professionals those firefighters.
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I returned home because so many communities sent firemen and equipment to help stave off the fire and keep travel corridors open thus far, even though the fires are still out of control. I'm glad I have air purifiers to cleanse our air in the home and that we have a home, too!
No intention to leave you out, Tish! In my brain it made sense to ask after 1T here, since it's his thread, and pm you directly in case you weren't checking this thread, but I readily admit my thought process may be opaque to some
Sorry to cause an unnecessary reminder of Paine
I have done some camping in various areas of the Island, both back country and front country (family-friendly). PM me if you have any questions that I might be able to answer.
Currently, back to thread integrity, I'm discussing with my daughter how her first overnight summer camp, where she found summer love (true love forever) a few weeks back just burned 90% down (based on images taken from boats, since it's evacuated still) while wondering about the school district email about evolving learning environments if some schools don't start up after labour day.
Is that a run-on sentence?
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