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Massive natural disaster in Fort McMurray. . . then a fire came along!
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May 4, 2016 16:41
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I'm dreading the news when police/firefighters stumble upon a burnt out building with the remains of a bunch of dead S.E Asian sex slaves tied up in the basement.
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May 4, 2016 16:47
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Bonzo posted:Isn't the whole city pretty much Newfies working in the oil fields? I think the drug dealers/pimps/hookers that supply them account for at least 1/4 of the total population.
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May 4, 2016 16:57
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Half the contractors in Alberta are probably sporting erections that could penetrate drywall right now.
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May 4, 2016 20:51
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slidebite posted:I was thinking more about the thousands of people out of work with $700K mortgages that were about to go into bankruptcy now have a nice insurance payout to look forward to. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the people who lost their homes opted for the bare minimum insurance plan and are now going to get a cheque that still doesn't cover the remaining amounts on their mortgages.
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May 4, 2016 21:00
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Reverse Centaur posted:They'll just go to Toronto instead. The perfect place for someone with no money and a vehicle requiring a parking spot to start anew.
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May 5, 2016 02:35
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:Cool shot of a gal rescuing her horses during the fire Nice to see/hear about these. Have heard enough people on the radio saying, "police wouldn't let us go back to the house. . . I'm sure our two dogs have burned to death by now.".
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May 5, 2016 20:27
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Arcsquad12 posted:Those dogs would only burn to death if the fuckers had left them indoors rather than letting them run free so they had a chance to get clear of the fires Homes in the City/Suburbs typically have back yards that are fenced high enough to prevent dogs from leaving. Also if there has been lots of smoke in the air for a while, you might want to leave your pets inside so they are not breathing it in. Also dogs will sometimes rather crawl into a corner of the yard, under the deck, or in a doghouse and die from smoke inhalation/burning rather than running to safety. Also a lot of people were at work, or getting supplies then heading home and were cut off by police, not knowing that they would not be able to go home to get their stuff/pets, so they would not have had a chance to do so.
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May 5, 2016 20:39
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Vakal posted:That BBQ probably costs more than most peoples cars. 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.
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May 5, 2016 20:45
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Toadvine posted:Sucks for the dogs. Being off social media for an hour at one point was the difference between, "things might get bad" and "you're not going to hour house 100m away, evacuate now!". Hindsight is 20-20 and it's easy to say that everyone should have known what was happening, but there is also a sense of shock and disbelief/denial when something this bad happens.
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May 5, 2016 23:18
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Germstore posted:The news also said it jumped a 1 km wide river which is- quite a thing. Apparently people's yards were being lit while the main body was still a few km's away. Embers were being sent ahead of the fire and landing on dry grass, so fire-fighters would be trying to establish a line, then turning around and seeing a new fire that was in the process of encircling them or cutting off a road. Alberta has been having drought-like summer conditions for over a month, and everything is a stray cigarette butt from being a new wildfire. There were some people who were saying, "Just get a few dozen bulldozers and made a swath of dirt a few lanes wide and this fire will be licked. When you have a fire that can catapult itself multiple kilometres ahead of itself, you can see how laughable ideas like that are. The video Keg posted of the guy running past a plate sized fire in his back yard and "making a hasty exit" is a good example of how impossible something like this is to fight.
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May 7, 2016 22:07
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crowoutofcontext posted:Russia is offering to "save us" with their super water bombers. When you're dealing with a forest fire of this scale and speed, even a water bomber 10x larger than what they're currently using is just spitting into an inferno and hardly going to make a difference. Some of the water bombers already working there have said that the fires have either burned through, or hopped over their fire-retardant strips like they weren't even there.
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May 10, 2016 13:38
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Cartouche posted:Is Canada made out of literal newspaper, deadwood and matchsticks? Does Alberta go straight from snow to inferno? The prairie provinces either get intense flooding or intense drought, never anything in-between. Alberta went from snow in March to +20 weather since then with not a drop of rain. In Calgary, people who have not been watering their yards have found they look like month #2 of a "conserve water" advisory. Things are so dry that all ATV's are supposed to have spark inhibitors on their exhaust pipes to prevent fires.
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May 10, 2016 14:10
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