[williamgoody]

Read about this in the MD boards. Anyone heard about this?


http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showt...threadid=16793

 

[Zanth]

Yeah, its been worldwide news now for over a month. Fires everywhere and folks sometime having 2 minutes to evacuate. These fires now are on par with what has happened this summer in Portugal. Same intensity of fire, although the damage in Portugal is still much greater.

 

[Kelvie1234]

Yeah.. provincial state of emergency... brutal stuff.

My friends visited Kelowna about 5 days ago (now it has been evacuated), and they said the sky was red and looked like it was burning...

Quite a sight... they took pics too...

 

[averydonovan]

Last summer we had this problem in Colorado and Arizona, but unlike the fires in Canada and Portugal they weren't too near major residential areas, although the Arizona fire did burn through a few small towns in one of the most beautiful parts of that state

I remember the first day of the Hayman fire in Colorado, when the skies in Denver were red, ashes were falling, and the air outside was quite unpleasant because of the smoke. Very eerie to say the least. There were a lot of fires statewide that summer due to the lack of rainfall and snowfall the previous winter, luckily this year it hasn't been nearly so bad. But it looks like British Columbia is getting them all instead, along with an always pleasant drought.

In Europe the temeratures had reached almost 30 degrees (F) above normal in many places, and many thousands of people died in France due to the heat there. That same heat helped along the fires in Portugal and in Italy.