11,000 evacuate Kelowna, BC to escape Forest Fires - Polidicks

More Canadian news, yay! Sauce: [url]http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1808133[/url] [quote]Three large wildfires are causing terror and are chasing thousands of people from communities where memories of burning subdivisions are still fresh. The fires started Saturday and within hours were burning out of control. All three are on the west side of Okanagan Lake. By yesterday, they had forced the evacuation of 11,000 people from 6,500 homes. ---- The fires are spread out. Two are threatening communities in and around the District of West Kelowna, where large houses are set along terraced streets. The communities of Glenrosa and Rose Valley are now virtually deserted, save for emergency response teams and fire crews. About 6,500 homes have been cleared out since Saturday; yesterday night, reports were that only a few residents remained in their homes and were refusing to leave. Highway 97, a major route running through West Kelowna, was closed on Sunday and will likely remain so until the fires can be beaten back. The fire jumped the highway on Saturday and will move down to the lake, and to more homes, if it's not contained. Six years ago, the Kelowna fires came from the south, along the east side of Okanagan Lake, and lingered briefly in a large mountain park; this allowed neighbourhoods time -- in some areas, even days -- to evacuate.[/quote] Fires started on Saturday, but the shit is hitting the fan now. This picture is from 2003, but it's the same idea: [URL=http://img31.imageshack.us/i/vvfire.jpg/][IMG]http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9674/vvfire.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOyWinfKiFg&feature=related[/media]

Makes me glad I live in Minnesota. [B]EDIT:[/B] Why the fuck would you refuse to leave?

Forest fires are annoying. It makes air smell bad.

Isn't it freezing in Canada? Wouldn't that make most bushfires deliberate?

not in australia nobody cares

I'd watch that.

[QUOTE=phill977;16152616]Isn't it freezing in Canada? Wouldn't that make most bushfires deliberate?[/QUOTE] Please tell me you're kidding. It's mid-summer. Do you really think that it's freezing here in mid-summer?

[QUOTE=phill977;16152616]Isn't it freezing in Canada? Wouldn't that make most bushfires deliberate?[/QUOTE] Let's hope that was sarcasm. Tempatures in Yukon are usually in the high 20°C range during the summer. I have visited Kelowna and it's hot and dry, reaching tempatures of over 40°C in the summer. I've stayed there for a week once. Also, the damage from the 2003 fires is crazy. When I went in 2008, the burnt trees were everywhere, when we hiked up a nearby moutain/ hill thing.

Who are these cunt moles rating this shit funny?

this is a fake article, in canada it's aways below zero.

Fucking Kelownanians (say that three times :v:) fagging up our Kamloops air with their forest fires... Bah, this is nothing. It was 40% contained when I left for work last night. EDIT: Pretty picture from last night. [img]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2009/07/20/bc-fire-cbc-w090720.jpg[/img]

[img]http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/179233_4RdH56lqrfWJG8KcSb576cXTw.jpg[/img]

IIT: People who know jack shit about Canadian weather. I mean seriously, Canada gets weather like the northern states. It is not always freaking cold up here.

[img]http://www.pissedonpolitics.com/Otay%20Lake%20Mount%20Miguel%201.jpg[/img] This was a fire just a bit from my house in otay ranch by the lake.

I'm a 3 hour drive from Kelowna. My Grandma lives there =[

Looks like my friends are gonna have to cut their vacation short.

Haha I was driving down central bc and saw it when it was just like an acre or two.

Trying to be California? Just wait until August-November! But in all seriousness, those are some nasty fires.

Shame this is happening again, Kelowna seems like a beautiful place, however i must say, I'm glad i live in Victoria and not there. And yeah.. people underestimate how hot it is here Lately it's getting to above 30 degrees Celsius which is 86 Fahrenheit. That is scorching.

Uh oh, I have a friend in Kelowna. There was a bad forest fire here in Halifax earlier this year: [IMG]http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/21fbc3a5.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=phill977;16152616]Isn't it freezing in Canada? Wouldn't that make most bushfires deliberate?[/QUOTE] Yes thats why the shadow in the picture is wearing what appears to be a shirt and shorts/skirt.

[QUOTE=Senney;16153176]Please tell me you're kidding. It's mid-summer. Do you really think that it's freezing here in mid-summer?[/QUOTE] Yea, but Canada is close to the Arctic. But it does really depend on how south in Canada; i guess.

[QUOTE=phill977;16171269]Yea, but Canada is close to the Arctic. But it does really depend on how south in Canada; i guess.[/QUOTE] Anything below the northern provinces gets about the same weather as most of the US.

[QUOTE=Waltz;16170006]Kelowna seems like a beautiful place....[/QUOTE] Kelowna is full of mansions and rich assholes. Come to Kamloops. Shit is a lot more fun over here. :dance:

Forest fires at night have a surreal beauty to them.

[QUOTE=tarkata14;16152549]Makes me glad I live in [b]Minnesota.[/b][/QUOTE] Sup brotha'.

[QUOTE=phill977;16171269]Yea, but Canada is close to the Arctic. But it does really depend on how south in Canada; i guess.[/QUOTE] You really don't know what you're talking about do you? It isn't rare to see the temperature in Nova Scotia to be higher than that of the Northern States. You idiots think an imaginary line is keeping all the cold up here or something. "Yea, but Canada is close to the Arctic." Really intelligent shit buddy.

Local news update. People are returning home to broken windows and smashed back doors. Yep. Ten people so far have reported their houses being cleaned out of anything of value. The police are currently looking for a group of people who were seen fleeing from the area on quad bikes and other all-terrain vehicles which were probably used to bypass the police checkpoints via decommissioned roads.

Time for Smokey the bear to fuck some people up.

[QUOTE=laval;16170213]Uh oh, I have a friend in Kelowna. There was a bad forest fire here in Halifax earlier this year: [IMG]http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/21fbc3a5.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] I saw that when I was coming out of school "Where's the fire?" "Turn around"