Fort McMurray burns...

[WOTR]

I am no longer there- but did spend a number of years in that town.  Watching it burn and recognizing the places and the extent of the fire on the videos is absolutely amazing.  Fort Mac has tons and tons of trees- lots of hills where they did not build and lots of undeveloped land between the communities.  It was nice- but I'm sure that has contributed to the devastation and difficulty containing it.

Just thought I would post it as it really has been on my mind all evening.  I guess the only good thing is that if there is a city to burn, Fort Mac is probably the best one.  Rents are outrageous and that keeps the disabled and seniors out of it.  Pretty much everybody in town was able bodied and I doubt there was a single retirement home there (at least there was not when I lived there...)  I did not know a single person who did not own three vehicles and  I would think that it was probably the easiest mass evacuation ever.  (I'm sure there were no people screaming in pain while trying to fire up the wrecked Prius.)

Not that I expect people to understand or care- but the traffic circle sign @ :13 is the far North of town while the trailer park seen at 1:38 is leaving the South of town.  Petty much tells you everything...  80,000 - 100,000 people evacuated.  Unreal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKaM6bw_S5U

In case you figured it was just the two ends of the town... this is right downtown.  One side of the highway is treed- the other is businesses and residential (where I lived against the river...)  I like the truck heading south at :44 loaded with gen sets and compressors.  You have to understand that equipment does NOT travel south out of town- EVER...  Scholars will undoubtedly tell you that equipment going south is a sign of the apocalypse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqj2bm1VwF0

[Teh PeNgu1n oF dOOm]

Fort McMurray has been a blight on Canada for some time.  Exploding cancer rates among the First Nations people and poisoning of their land, not to mention the exploitation of foreign workers.

Hopefully Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will grant reparations to the First Nations people and apologize for the barbarity this place has caused towards them and foreign workers.

[WOTR]

Fort McMurray has been a blight on Canada for some time.  Exploding cancer rates among the First Nations people and poisoning of their land, not to mention the exploitation of foreign workers.

Hopefully Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will grant reparations to the First Nations people and apologize for the barbarity this place has caused towards them and foreign workers.

Don't worry- there are a ton of first nations people who will be homeless after this... But they deserve it for working in a non-approved industry rather than staying home and living in poverty or hunting and fishing.