An entire canadian city is on fire

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mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Alberta is the Texas of Canada, and I'm happy to see it burn

# ¿ May 4, 2016 16:21

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:58

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Some of this footage is actually pretty scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOC5YGyoGDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g27v60qjpPE

http://imgur.com/gallery/2KHh3

Behold, the ruins of a town that 80,000 people lived in yesterday.

It looks like a loving fallout game now.

But I don't have sympathy for the people that didn't even bother to insure their property for $80 a month. You work in Ft McMurray, you can afford it you numbskull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSWZVaUlYc

mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 4, 2016

# ¿ May 4, 2016 16:33

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VRViperII posted:

I'm not calling you out, but I'm honored that the first post you've made on your 7 year old account was to shake your fist at my cynical comment. That's honoured with a "U".

# ¿ May 4, 2016 17:14

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Lime Tonics posted:

Someone started the fire on purpose to raise oil prices because the oil companies are slumping.

~~Trudeau~~Notley lied, people died

# ¿ May 4, 2016 19:36

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EvilJoven posted:

In most of Canada mortgages are full recourse; no handing the bank the keys and giving them the finger.

Except for Alberta.

So ya expect a lot of people walking away from their mortgages.

Will this be what bursts the Canadian housing bubble?

We should be so lucky.

# ¿ May 4, 2016 21:23

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Darth123123 posted:

is it burnt down and done yet?

The entire province has now declared a state of emergency. Communities as far out as 50km from Fort McMurray are being evacuated. Firefighters and waterbombers have been almost completely ineffective. They say the only thing that can really help is rain.

Footage of ash and destruction raining from the heavens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2iPvXAggM&t=86s

# ¿ May 5, 2016 17:30

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Pawn 17 posted:

Also why are the people directing traffic not wearing respirators? Breathing in fire smoke for hours isn't so good for you.

I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and say that due to the state of emergency they're either used up or turned to ash. The fire has engulfed hospitals, fire halls (ironically), and other facilities/job sites. Not only has much of that PPE likely been destroyed, but they've also been at this for over two days. I'm not sure if any filter cartridges would last that long.

# ¿ May 5, 2016 19:44

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Blistex posted:

Or he had time and figured it would be nice to have some way to cook food while living in a Walmart Parking lot for the next 3 months.

Pfft, amateur. There's a perfectly good way to cook food, and it's rolling through his town right now.

# ¿ May 5, 2016 21:11

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Marijuana Nihilist posted:

because people from Alberta are whiny little bitches who will cry over the slightest bit of adversity

also an unnumbered amount of pets died

# ¿ May 6, 2016 01:21

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Keg posted:

If this happened in the USA how long do you think it would take before people would start looting houses?

the burnt ones, or the ones on fire?

# ¿ May 6, 2016 02:21

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It's amazing that any telecom is still working there. Congrats on the kitten barbeque livefeed.

# ¿ May 6, 2016 04:39

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

So the people talking to reporters are the drug addicts tweaking out, right?

mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 05:48 on May 6, 2016

# ¿ May 6, 2016 05:38

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CLAM DOWN posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2iPvXAggM

page 6 you canpol regular :bigtran:

# ¿ May 6, 2016 21:41

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Keg posted:

The entire city is yellow

#hongcouver

# ¿ May 7, 2016 02:49

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I only stayed in Vancouver for a couple years, but I had no idea that was a prevalant sentiment.

# ¿ May 7, 2016 05:47

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Darth123123 posted:

This article says the fire created its own lightening. Wtf is that hyperbole?

Let me introduce you to PYROCUMULUS CLOUDS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrocumulus_cloud

# ¿ May 7, 2016 18:46

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Germstore posted:

The news also said it jumped a 1 km wide river which is- quite a thing.

I take it back, this fire deserves a name so I can name my boat after it. Right now Pyrocumulus is a strong contender though.

Harrower posted:

I'd attribute the lack of fatalities to the fact that the authorities didn't really waffle on declaring a state of emergency and just went with evacuating the whole drat town when things started to look real bad, rather than waiting till things were actually real bad.

I really hope that most of them understand this.

# ¿ May 7, 2016 19:17

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Russia has regularly been crossing over into Canada's ADIZ to see how NORAD reacts, and some rather blatant attempts have even made the news, particularly when Vladmir Putin is in power.

This offer is a ~~wolf~~ bear in sheep's cloathing.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 06:18

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etalian posted:

Fort McMurry survived, only 10% of the buildings got destroyed in the wildfire:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36253444

So 90% of the buildings survived? gently caress donating money to these whiners. :smug:

# ¿ May 10, 2016 13:51

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:58

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

loving Albertans ruining it for the rest of us again. :argh:

vvv edit: yeah, I misread that as 'province' before my ninjaedit. Still waking up on the west coast, sorry. vvv

mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 14:37 on May 10, 2016

# ¿ May 10, 2016 14:31

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