@SuzanneShelton@iaindwelch I do hope Iain and his followers consider Threads. It seems nice over there so far, but I can’t imagine not seeing Iain’s dog content every day.
@minnesorta@WalterHudson I have helped philanthropic families donate their farm land to tribes. But, I guess since this Walter guy doesn’t personally know anyone who has done that, he knows everything.
@Toddler_talkin Every parent will breathe a sigh of relief that their house is no better than yours. Just roll with it. You’ll be a hero to the exhausted parents out there!
@JeffSharlet After watching what happened to the Jan 6 foot soldiers and the Proud Boys, who on earth would show up for Trump? Trump has shown zero concern for his minions and never will. This is all LARPing.
From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada#wildfire#smoke
(Worth the read)
“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.
This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.
On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).
The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.
Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”
Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.
In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.
Cheers.
@CathyWurzer Get it tested and to follow up on my earlier post, I rethought our plan last night, and we are in urgent care where the doc is having my son undergo the PEP shots.
@CathyWurzer This just happened to us. We found it in the sink of our 1st floor bathroom. It was docile. My son grabbed two towels and gently took it outside. We saw it hanging out on the house the next morning. Nobody was bitten, no skin contact and no bedrooms- we didn’t test.
@_cingraham School shootings are the reason mine bring their phones to school. If there is any type of incident, I need to be able to reach them. Otherwise they are supposed to be off and put away in the backpack.
@RonFilipkowski Just like his Covid plan announcement with the groovy website that never got done and all those corporate shills who stood with him pledging to make testing and treatment efficient and easy. Only 2 weeks later Trump said the thing about injecting bleach.