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British Columbia declares state of emergency amid ‘devastating’ wildfires

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    Grimmcartel
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    Hi folks. Reporting from Abbotsford BC, I can see and smell the smoke here, and Kelowna is a good 4 hour drive away. The last few years have been brutal fire seasons in BC, but the drought this...

    Hi folks.

    Reporting from Abbotsford BC, I can see and smell the smoke here, and Kelowna is a good 4 hour drive away. The last few years have been brutal fire seasons in BC, but the drought this year seems to be the worst yet. Normally, this is a rainforest. It's a little uncanny, considering this town is normally a suburban sea of green lawns, to see almost all of them tan and parched. These are the people who usually scream about the gubmint and wave flags on overpasses, but even they have stopped watering and washing cars etc. For it to have gotten through to that demographic is a definite indicator that things are not ok here.

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    1. online_persona
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      Salt Spring Island checking in. The sky is looking very weird at the moment (9:15am). According to https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ we're going to get the worst of the smoke tomorrow. Stay...

      Salt Spring Island checking in. The sky is looking very weird at the moment (9:15am). According to https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ we're going to get the worst of the smoke tomorrow.

      Stay safe everybody!

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  2. chocobean
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    There's a lot of nights in a hundred years. The terrifying thing about this statement is that every single night of every summer could be another hundred years worth.

    “We fought a hundred years worth of fires all in one night,” he said.

    There's a lot of nights in a hundred years. The terrifying thing about this statement is that every single night of every summer could be another hundred years worth.

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