American Wildfires

smokinrav said:

Ironic that the US and Canada have, by far, the largest collection of fresh water on Earth in the Great Lakes. International treaties prevent the piping of any great lakes water over any border illegal without the consent of all 7 states and 3 Canadian provinces. Which, of course, will never happen.

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Careful. Any of the southwestern states start eyeing any idea like that and within a decade you'll hear the sucking sound at the lakes like the sound of a straw at the bottom of a soft drink.

I know a fellow down south in a tight water restriction area that once has a $1000 water bill, admittedly during a period of high usage. I'm worried that water is becoming a classist commodity and that water "theft" is going to be become commonplace, seeing cars with little harbor freight trailers towing small water tanks into remote areas to pump out of lakes/creeks/rivers, with poorer people being fined/arrested for trying to supply their family with basic needs.

smokinrav said:

In northern Illinois, I've been drinking lake Michigan water for some 30 years now. Its excellent water.

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Yeah right. That must be why they call the beer made with it Schlitz!

It was 115 degrees in British Columbia today, heck of a hoax.

rollitup said:

Yeah right. That must be why they call the beer made with it Schlitz!

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There's lots of Wisconsin beers made with lake Michigan water that taste like shit. Looking at you, Point.

rollitup said:

Yeah right. That must be why they call the beer made with it Schlitz!

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Schlitz is like a #1 beer in Switzerland or one of those countries. Now brewed in Germany.
I like British isle beers. You can chew on them.

Schlitz was good beer. They had a brewery in my area, until it was sold to Stroh's (yuck).

Oh lordy, i had blocked Strohs from my memory. Another bad Wisconsin beer. Some other brands Strohs bought...
Goebel, Schaefer, Schlitz, Augsburger, Erlanger, Old Style, Lone Star, Old Milwaukee, Red River, and Signature

I used to drink some Strohs Bock beer back in the day, it was seasonal, also drank most of the list above lol.

Old Style, Lone Star, Old Milwaukee, and Schlitz were not seasonal in Wisconsin or Chicagoland. Source: Me. I lived in Madison and Milwaukee for 10 years. Old Style, the for Beer of the Chicago Cubs, was particularly vile

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120.9 F in fucking Lytton B.C., that's not located in death valley.

Large numbers of morons will be setting off fireworks next weekend in these conditions.

captainmorgan said:

120.9 F in fucking Lytton B.C., that's not located in death valley.

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That's in BC Canada! This keeps up and there will be bigly fires, the whole northwest will burn to the ground.

Authorities say they're investigating more than 100 deaths likely caused by the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon alone, health officials say more than 60 deaths have been tied to the heat. http://apne.ws/VrLBh4x

Heat wave update: 486 sudden deaths reported in B.C. over 5 days | CTV News

Heat wave update: 486 sudden deaths reported in B.C. over 5 days

VANCOUVER -- A staggering 486 sudden and unexpected deaths were reported across British Columbia over the past five days as the province suffered under a blistering heat wave, coroners said Wednesday.

That includes 98 sudden deaths in Vancouver, where police said two-thirds of the victims were age 70 or older.

The government is still working to determine how many of the fatalities are directly related to the sweltering heat that's broken dozens of local and national temperature records, but the B.C. Coroner Service said it's likely the majority are connected to the weather.

Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe urged the public to touch base with family, friends and neighbours, particularly those who live alone, to ensure their safety until the heat wave is over.

"People can be overcome by the effects of extreme heat quickly and may not be aware of the danger," Lapointe said in a news release.

"Please arrange regular check-ins with those who live alone, and encourage everyone you know to drink water, stay in the shade as much as possible and visit cooler environments whenever they can."

The 486 sudden deaths reported between Friday and Wednesday afternoon represent a 195 per cent increase over the number of deaths that would normally be expected over a five-day period, officials said.

So, the heat wave in Canada was so strong that it created extreme wildfire conditions, and when the fires started the heat plumes were so strong they created severe thunderstorms, which are so strong they're creating lightning that's sparking new fires

I was happy to see Biden is trying to get out front of this season's fires.


It floored me that the fire fighters were only making about $13 an hour. Biden bumped it up to $15, but even he said that is stupidly little to be paying people risking their lives.