FOREST FIRES

[GrauGeist]

The crane in the background is about 700 yards away

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I gotta admit that at first, this image looked like a photo from Mars...

 

[fubar57]

Day 2 in camp compared to day 6. It finally poured rained over night

 

[rochie]

big difference

 

[Crimea_River]

I heard a stat yesterday that the area burned so far in Canada is equal to the size of Vancouver Island plus all the maritime provinces together. Boggles the mind.

Source of chart:
View: https://medium.com/extreme-weather-stories/living-with-wildfires-inwards-and-outwards-990180cf17c8

 

[Gnomey]

Good#)94£ so take.

 

[fubar57]

Good#)94£ so take.

Looks like someone has been sipping the medicinal alcohol

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That is good news George, you guys have had it bad for so long. Sadly for us down here, were not looking forward to summer.

 

[fubar57]

Not out of the water yet Vic. Off the 2195 fires this year, 384 still active

• 10 fires of note. These threaten property and lives
• 145 out of control
• 141 being held
• 98 under control

 

[Gnomey]

Stay safe George!

 

[fubar57]

A wee update, one month later. 2232 fires this year, 286 still burning

• 0 fires of note
• 38 out of control
• 73 being held
• 175 under control

 

[MiTasol]

So far my 50km diameter area is lucky - lots of small fires that the volunteer brigade have managed to stop. Multiple started by the same idiot according to the brigade captain when we met earlier today. There have been a lot of significant fires about 100km from us and this press photo shows one spectacular fire a little over 100 km away that has killed two and destroyed 16 homes so far.

Sixteen homes lost in Tara as Queensland bushfire emergency continues

Authorities have confirmed at least 16 homes have been destroyed in Tara, with dry lightning storms also causing havoc in the region for firefighters overnight.

www.abc.net.au

There have

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thinking of you guys up north.

 

[ARTESH]

A wee update, one month later. 2232 fires this year, 286 still burning

• 0 fires of note
• 38 out of control
• 73 being held
• 175 under control

Great thank to all those who involved to take out fire.

 

[fubar57]

Two weeks later. 2246 fires this years, 245 still burning

• 0 fires of note
• 31 out of control
• 49 being held
• 165 under control

 

[fubar57]

Two weeks later, sub zero temperatures, snow on the ground and still 175 fires burning

• 24 out of control
• 39 being held
• 112 under control

I've removed the filters to show only the red dot, out of control fires

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Never good George and one would have thought the snow would have helped kill them.

 

[fubar57]

Still 91 fires burning but all are under control

 

[Shortround6]

You need more snow????

 

[fubar57]

Actually yes. We are over 60% below snow pack levels. A lot depends on spring run off including supplying my mine with water in the summer. At this time of year I should have over 3ft on my lawn and now I have less than a foot

 

[Shortround6]

Actually yes. We are over 60% below snow pack levels. A lot depends on spring run off including supplying my mine with water in the summer. At this time of year I should have over 3ft on my lawn and now I have less than a foot

Hopefully you can get closer to what you need in the next few months, bad as that may make driving/traveling.