Fires in Manitoba and Heat Records

[Whitenuckler]

I was looking at the CBC news, and there are bad fires in Manitoba. Some deaths also. I hope there are no more.
Here in PEI we broke the heat records with July/Aug weather.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I’ve seen it freezing on July 4th in PEI.

 

[Whitenuckler]

I’ve seen it freezing on July 4th in PEI.

I looked it up - July 8 2009 3 C - That is unreal.
Oh and my post above. That is not what I planned to say. I meant to say we broke the record yesterday.
I think this back ground AI is trying to correct me?
I went for a drive and popped into a few places. This is Brackley Beach and then drove to Stanhope.

 

[Murray01]

We just came off evacuation alert due to a forest fire. This fire was almost entirely within a previous burn in 2021 and here I thought that once an area burned it wouldn’t burn again. I was wrong!

 

[Whitenuckler]

We just came off evacuation alert due to a forest fire. This fire was almost entirely within a previous burn in 2021 and here I thought that once an area burned it wouldn’t burn again. I was wrong!

Wow I had better get the news more often. What did you do to prepare to leave? There must have been a rush for gas and food ect?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I looked it up - July 8 2009 3 C - That is unreal.
Oh and my post above. That is not what I planned to say. I meant to say we broke the record yesterday.
I think this back ground AI is trying to correct me?
I went for a drive and popped into a few places. This is Brackley Beach and then drove to Stanhope.

This was further back. 1992 or 3, lol.

 

[Murray01]

Wow I had better get the news more often. What did you do to prepare to leave? There must have been a rush for gas and food ect?

Living in a rural setting there was no rush. Packed a suitcase with clothes and prescriptions. Boxed up valuables and records that can’t be replaced. Vehicles are always full, nearest gas station is 35 kms away. I keep at least 20L of fuel on hand just in case. Sister-in-law is 65 kms away so touch base with her for a bed. This is the third time in the past 10 years that we’ve been on evacuation alert and have had to evacuate twice. One evacuation was because they thought they might lose the only access road in and the second time was the fire threatening cabins. Luckily for us the wind changed direction at the last minute and the fire blew back on itself. Driving back in was a surreal experience seeing the destruction that occurred. That’s the price we pay for living in the boreal forest. Thank goodness for the fire fighters, a job I wouldn’t want to do but have a lot of respect for those that do.