- they've added a new alert zone (which
means you're supposed to be ready to
evacuate) a couple of km away. It
doesn't really make sense because the
people on the far side of it, who are
closer to the fire, are not on alert.
I don't really think much has changed
since yesterday.
- locals are accusing the BC Wildfire
Service of making the fire worse with
a controlled ignition. The idea is
that you burn the forest off before
the fire can get to it. The Wildfire
Service set their fire when the wind
was blowing toward the two forest
fires that were out of control,
knowing that the wind was going to
reverse on them. They thought that the
fires would then turn back on the
already burned areas. There's some
debate over whether the plan worked.
The two wildfires joined together and
jumped the planned ignition zone. To
be fair, it was windy as hell and to
the south of us, a wildfire jumped
Okanagan Lake, which is pretty crazy.
The micro-news:
- yesterday, I bought one of those
allergen/HEPA furnace filters and
attached it to a box fan to scrub the
air in the house a bit. It's gone
brown in 24 hours. Yikes.
- I'm jonesing for a typewriter. Go
figure.
That's it. In M*A*S*H terminology, we
haven't had to 'bug out' yet!
