#kelowna wildfire

[djhinnwe]

Taking a break from my ACTRA rage for a minute to bring you: FIRES IN BC!

Hey everyone,

As you may or may not know BC is on fire.

As usual the Central and South Okanagan are weathering the worst of it. If you are travelling for your vacation... don't. It isn't quite as egregious as the Maui fires or even the Yellowknife fires as we are far more prepared for disaster of this size, but we literally do not have room for you.

The "completely gone" is as of this morning, August 18th 2023.

Red = under evacuation, orange = on alert.

Stay home and when you come visit next year PUT YOUR FUCKING FIRES OUT. Or get one of the smokeless firepit options that exist so you don't fucking light us on fire in the first place.

Anyway, we'll ultimately be fine. This has been our summer for the last 10+ years. The infrastructure that Maui and Yellowknife lack exists here. We'll cry and we'll mourn, and we might lose a few people, but most of what is going to be lost is just stuff (I will likely be losing some heirlooms due to my storage locker being in West Kelowna at this rate and I cannot go get them due to being locked out for lack of payment b/c I forgot to pay August).

So if you want to help, put Maui and Yellowknife first.

To help Maui: https://mauinuistrong.info/support

To help NWT: https://cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/help-for-evacuees-calgary-red-deer-1.6940623 (bottom of article)

To help BC: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017T

[love-me-mercilessly]

Okay trust me I understand this is a very serious situation I am in the middle of it

But

I present the current evacuation map with no comment:

[lettherightrobin]

wildfire on vhs

kelowna, british columbia, 2003

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The University of British Columbia Okanagan has been placed under an evacuation order. In a notice posted to social media on Friday, the university said everyone must leave campus immediately. If anyone is on campus and needs access to transportation, they are asked to make their way to H lot. Everyone is asked to leave immediately and in a calm manner.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[galaxiadecima]

If you're planning on travelling to the Shuswap/Okanagan right now for 'vacation', then please, do not. You are not welcome right now. Keep traffic as much to a minimum as you possibly can while locals and families try and figure out their next steps to safety and security.

Meme under the cut because I've been crying for hours.

[anavar-immela]

I've been seeing articles that refer to the fire situations in Yellowknife and Kelowna specifically as 'unprecedented', and when I look over the details under a headline with that word all I can think is

there was precedent

there was precedent

there was precedent

there was precedent

there is always precedent.

Five years after Slave Lake burned, so did Fort Mac. And just because the fire was bigger, they called it unprecedented. They had five years to learn, and they made all the same mistakes.

'Do you believe Canada is doing enough to support wildfire victims?' a poll in one of the articles asks me, and I vote immediately NO. At this point I don't even know what would be 'enough', but clearly we're not there yet. Half of all people who've voted in this poll agree with me. We are not doing enough.

My heart goes out to all the people who've lost their homes and all the people who are about to. You are not alone in what you're feeling.

[tomorrowusa]

«It's just an unbelievable summer. It's the kind of extreme weather that we climate scientists have been warning about for decades – it just now seems to be happening everywhere, all at once.»

—Climate scientist Peter Gleick, a senior fellow at the Pacific Institute, on the torrent of climate disasters over the past few months. Quoted at the journal Foreign Policy.

Yep, they've been warning us for decades, but the fossil fuel companies have have devoted copious amounts of money to try to stifle those warnings.

Even as I type this in late afternoon in the Northeast of the US, another potential disaster is looming. Wildfires are threatening Yellowknife – the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories.

Yellowknifers head to Alberta as serious wildfire conditions continue

The mayor is still in the city coordinating efforts.

Also in Canada, British Columbia is experiencing a wildfire emergency near West Kelowna.

Letting people know about such occurrences is what Republicans like Ron DeSantis call "politicization of the weather". 🙄

[tilbageidanmark]

The McDougall Creek wildfire, West Kelowna, British Columbia, Aug. 18, 2023

[ceevee5]

“The fires moved so rapidly on Friday that the number of people under evacuation order went from 4,500 to 15,000 in an hour, while another 20,000 were under evacuation alert. The province currently accounts for over a third of Canada's 1,062 active fires.”

[aurorauroboros]

my mom trying to take me n my cat back home while its still in the alert zone n one block away from the evacuation zone

i aint going back unless both my grandma and my uncle force me out of their place (which they said they wont do and i doubt they will) OR until our place isnt in the alert zone

"trust in the lord" trust in these nuts you can go but im chilling with my grandma and cat

[six-of-ravens]

okay multiple cities in different parts of the country being evacuated bc of wildfires might be too much for me

[510amy5]

My best friend lives in BC and her town has wildfires burning on all sides. She isn't far from Kelowna where a fire is now burning homes. She has been trying to fly out so see me but her flight has been canceled 3 times. Things are getting really bad.

[andrewknott]

On October 4, 2023, we had the honour of hosting a unique stay and golf experience at Sagebrush Golf Club for Kelowna Firefighters. Their bravery and commitment during this year's wildfires have been awe-inspiring. Local businesses, including King Taps Kelowna Lakeside Family Restaurant, Nude Beverages, and the Keg Steakhouse, joined forces to express our collective gratitude for these remarkable heroes.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A wildfire-related travel ban to hotels or campgrounds in many communities in the southern Interior will be lifted at midnight, according to B.C.'s Minister of Emergency Management.

The order was implemented Saturday and restricted travel for the purpose of staying in temporary accommodations to Kelowna and West Kelowna, Kamloops, Oliver, Osoyoos, Penticton and Vernon.

It was designed to make space for the thousands of evacuees ordered out of their homes due to hundreds of wildfires burning around the province, as well as first responders and support staff.

However, non-essential travel to West Kelowna continues to be prohibited and people are being urged to stay away from the Lake Country and Shuswap areas.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[islander1974]

United BC or BC Liberals cannot seem to help themselves

By Peter Kelly Late August is upon us and wildfire season is in full swing. For several months, many areas of BC have not had significant rain to temper the threat of raging wildfires. Climate change is the culprit and we’re all to blame. But that’s what has led to stunning extremes to our climate patterns here and around the world. For us, it means tinder dry forests by early spring and ashes…

[wickedjack81]

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