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⬅️ Previous capture (2023-11-04)
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Well, here's the daily fire update: The macro-news: - 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!