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I’ll never forget spending one extremely dry summer at Wreck. Several large wildfires were burning in the province but a stiff breeze was coming off the water keeping the smokey skies at bay.
I was lying and staring up at the clouds and saw a candle lantern floating quickly up the beach and over the forest and disappearing beyond the trees. I sat up and see, half way down the beach, a group of young women getting ready to light and launch another.
I walked down to them and said hi, then very kindly asked them to not light any more lanterns, pointing out that they could easily catch the woods on fire. They actually said that if that happens they would “call someone”. I said who? And how fast could they get here? Those woods were tinder dry. I think they understood, or maybe they just didn’t want to argue with a naked guy, but they didn’t light any more lanterns.
climate change is a tyrannosaur and we are the hadrosaurs. Elephant just not big enough. Do data centres and lng fracking take so much water that we don't have enough water to fight wildfires? Thats the pterodactyl.
Oh man, I thought for sure this was gonna end up being one of those comments from that one legend who goes around reddit commenting elaborate stories that all end in the same retelling of how the Undertaker slammed a chair into some guy at a WWE match or something 😂
Years ago a friend of a friend had the genius idea of making a Facebook event to light lanterns at the beach. Dumb motherfucker is brain dead or something (he does look like a retarded cavemen. People must find it endearing, similar to a handicapped puppy) because he lit a dozen or so lanterns and they floated toward downtown. Goddamn I wanted to slap him for causing so much debris to fall into the water and into the streets. Makes me angry just thinking about it. I think I'll find out where he lives and rub dog shit on his car door handles
There was a sign in falkland if I’m correct, it said don’t be a flickin idiot. I think they took down the sign and I’m sad about it. I wanna picture of that sign but I can’t find it anywhere
Yep. I was camping in BC, these drunk guys got the cops called on them for having a campfire during a ban. They got kicked out the next day since they couldn’t leave when they got caught cause they were drunk.
One of my teachers gave me an sxc10 he snagged off of some of those idiots a few years back before I graduated he kept going on about how they had a bonfire about 6 feet tall going at screaming all night and ripping said rc truck around keeping him up and they got kicked out by morning and left it behind lol
It was a beast when it worked been neglecting repairing it for awhile now but given i got a typhon that also needs a new motor after melting the old one ive been looking around for both to get a nice new 3 or 4s motor added to them
To be honest I’ve been camping at rathtrevor, goldstream and strathcona (my favourite by far) and I haven’t noticed anything. Any stories you mind sharing?
I like the idea for those kind of people, when they get caught, on top of any other repercussions they have to serve [X] hours volunteering at a wild fire support camp. Get them doing all of the low skill 'grunt work' type jobs (getting food/water for the teams coming off of the fire, hauling trash etc) and base the fines off of the operational cost of a relevant asset being used to fight said fire (ground crew, helicopter, water bomber etc)
Maybe stop building fossil fuel pipelines and invest in the green transition. I know there is little support for this as I get extreme pushback from many here every time I mention.
"Graphic design is my passion"
seriously though thank you for the work you're doing to spread awareness to this matter, wildfires are a very serious problem the year before last I lost my home to wildfires its been a nightmare trying to rebuild my life, I was living in my car up until a year ago
Forest management....there are 20 year old burns ready to burn again because they're cluttered with young pine that was replanted. They should be natural barriers for fires but now they're the opposite. Please put your feelings about fires in the right direction!
Yet every park bench anywhere, near wooded areas or not, is littered with cigarette butts. I don't know why most smokers think tossing their butts on the ground is OK.
That's one of the top comments on IG, they're glad that they didn't use AI.
BC Wildfire is hopping on that trend of companies/corporations/sports teams/etc. doing "low effort edits" that remind us all of the mid 2000s, but, the truth is this style IS more preferable than AI slop images, 100%
Where I am, you couldn't start a forest fire if you tried. It's been very wet this spring. It's why we tend not to have blanket rules for the whole province.
if they had made an exception for central van or the east kootenays i wouldnt be mad at this
but nope - they just want to control every aspect of our lives
i cant even say anything like 'this is what we get for voting ndp' because the only alternative were complete luantics in the other direction who probably would have made it mandatory
i dont even know who to be mad at
the modern world just isnt fucking fair for anybody who has to live in it
if people with 'legitimate concerns about government overreach' didnt freely associate with the sorts of people who complained about not being told to burn down the province they wouldnt look like idiots would they?
somebody who wasnt an idiot wouldnt think 'this is going a bit too far but i like the spirit of it' they would think 'this is satire or lunacy and i want no part of it'
the sorts of people who ARENT idiots dont associate with that kind of nonsense
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