The province of British Columbia burns once again.
It has become a yearly problem in British Columbia, Canada, just like some other spots around the world.
Forest Fires.
100F weather (40C), no rain in a month,and 1000s of acres of kill off from Pine Beetles, the provinces is like a box of kindling ready to be lit.
That was lit today in my area. Already two massive fires, one an hour away, one two hours away, now one 20 minutes away. A train sparked a fire on the side of the lake which shares the name with my city. Who knows how it will react with two more weeks of the same weather with less than a centimeter of rain in the forecast.
In 2003, a similar fire threatened the city of Kelowna, British Columbia. In 1999, the same story happened to a city I was staying in named Salmon Arm. Could it happen again?
Maybe.
It has become a yearly problem in British Columbia, Canada, just like some other spots around the world.
Forest Fires.
100F weather (40C), no rain in a month,and 1000s of acres of kill off from Pine Beetles, the provinces is like a box of kindling ready to be lit.
That was lit today in my area. Already two massive fires, one an hour away, one two hours away, now one 20 minutes away. A train sparked a fire on the side of the lake which shares the name with my city. Who knows how it will react with two more weeks of the same weather with less than a centimeter of rain in the forecast.
In 2003, a similar fire threatened the city of Kelowna, British Columbia. In 1999, the same story happened to a city I was staying in named Salmon Arm. Could it happen again?
Maybe.
