All Hell Is Breaking Loose Right Now In British Columbia, On Fire

[appalachiablue]

Daily Kos, Aug. 16, 2021.

At 9pm (PST) I was alerted to my old stomping ground was trending on Twitter. Kamloops, BC was where I lived for over ten years and my children still live and work there. I left there to live on my even older stomping ground, Vancouver Island where I grew up as a teen. So when I saw the city on the list, I clicked on it and stared in horror at the tweets I was seeing.

BC is burning...again. We seem to go through this every year now. Beginning in May the wildfires start and they don’t stop until mid to late September. Most years the fires have been isolated communities of only a few scattered people and lots of uninhabited wilderness, but lately we’ve lost towns. And usually the main cities in the interior of BC...Prince George, Kelowna and Kamloops host all the evacuees from the towns and outlying areas. Not this year.

This year not just towns and small communities are in danger of burning to the ground, but the cities and suburbs are. Even the highways are ablaze:

Link to tweet

Britton Creek is the midpoint rest stop between Hope and Merritt on the Coquihalla Highway, the 4 lane highway that runs from the city of Vancouver right up to Kamloops and beyond to Kelowna. It’s now closed. And there was a rockslide on the other highway , highway 5 (a two lane road actually) that goes from the interior to the coast...



- Wildfire closes Coquihalla between Hope and Merritt,
https://www.theprogress.com/news/wildfire-closes-coquihalla-between-hope-and-merritt/

Read More,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2046139/-All-Hell-Is-Breaking-Loose-In-BC-Right-Now

[Bev54]

1. My home town Vernon, is in the midst of many evacuations yesterday

My close friends were evacuated from their cottage on West side of Okanagan Lake 3 weeks ago and now their home, for the second time. There is now another big fire in Glenn Rosa in West Kelowna and it too is threatening close friends. I saw a video of a plane trying to land at Kelowna airport at 4:45 and it was pitch black with smoke and they eventually had to turn around back to Vancouver. Read this morning there is another new fire just started out in Cherryville, out by Lumby. These fires are cutting off all routes of escape if need be. This is totally disastrous.

[appalachiablue]

2. Huge disaster, can't believe what I'm watching-

it sounds so scary, terrible for your close ones and all.

All the best though at this dire time, and thanks for the report.

I visited Vancouver by boat once, for a day with friends from Seattle. Wonderful area, I've been there 3-4 times and would love to return to the PNW.

[orwell]

3. Went through Kamloops decades ago...

...such a beautiful area.

What a mess we have created just so we can burn the last of the ancient sunlight.

[MurrayDelph]

5. Drove through there twice a few years ago

Once on our way to Jasper and Banfffffff and once on our way back.

There was a very nice local zoo there. Hope they (and everyone else) is OK.

[TalenaGor]

4. in two weeks my husband and I are supposed to go sail the San Juan Islands

I'm wondering if it would be better if we didn't....

[pfitz59]

6. The San Juans are fine

Seattle is fine.

[BoycottTimHortons]

7. Climate change is destroying us

Bit by bit. The wildfires are getting worse each year. Eventually most of the West coast will be uninhabitable. Especially when major earthquakes rear their ugly heads.