In The News...

[Steve Mack]

A lot of fires here already and it's still winter, doesn't look good for summer.

A firefighting helicopter crashed killing the pilot today. https://au.news.yahoo.com/helicopter-crashes-fighting-nsw-bushfires-killing-pilot-055906375.html

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Crazy fires up there. Just stay safe Justin. That means from the smoke too. Bad juju.

 

[squisher]

It's everywhere. No avoiding it. Hopefully we get some rain.

 

[Ryan]

Our sun is pink in Manitoba from the smoky haze.

 

[squisher]

It got super bad here now overnight. Visibility is about 300m or so. It's like living in fog, except it's smoke.

 

[Raj]

https://www.kelownanow.com/watercoo...lieve_29_wildfire_in_the_Okanagan_were_arson/

 

[squisher]

Yah I mentioned that awhile back in this thread. What a f-cking psycho.

That one person can wreak so much havoc and destruction is mind blowing.

I'd return the favour I think and go full psycho on them given the chance. Torture, a slow death is what that person deserves.

 

[MasterBlaster]

WHAT!

You GOTTA be shitting me!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

As it turns out....the world has gone f'ing mad.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Not me... I'm happy!!!

 

[BlackSmith]

Starbucks has been selling them drinks for years, they call it coffee.

 

[Mellow]

 

[BlackSmith]

On some news outlets...

Attorney General Ken Paxton today commended a U.S. District Court decision ordering the Internal Revenue Service to repay Texas and five other states more than $839 million because of an unlawful Obamacare tax on state Medicaid programs. Of that total amount, Texas stands to be repaid $304,730,608.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.go...acare-tax-lawsuit-recoups-over-839-million-in

 

[BlackSmith]

The party might have started...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/missile-attack-reported-at-damascus-military-air-base/

 

[squisher]

Cory had inquired about the types of land burning in BC. And generally it's all types of forest and just the luck of draw on where/how they start. Here's a link to an active fire map on a government website. May have to click on a disclaimer. You can see that the interior is the majority of the activity.

https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis....x.html?appid=ef6f11c8c36b42c29e103f65dbcd7538

 

[FireFighterZero]

Yes. BC is really crapping it up for the Prairie Provences.

 

[squisher]

Meh. What's a little smoke amongst provinces.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Boy, it was thick when I was in Saskatchewan.


Most of them did not take it personally though.

 

[squisher]

Worst year I've experienced for smoke. Feels like fall is moving in quickly so hopefully things will get settled down some. The air has been a bit better this weekend. As in it doesn't smell like fire with no visibility and ash falling.

 

[Steve Mack]

The unknown tree loppers stuck again. Pretty sure I know who would have done the second job, and probably this one.

A woman on Sydney's north shore must pay $83,000 after she cut down two of her neighbour's trees for "dropping leaves in my pool".

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...g-down-neighbour-s-trees-20180831-p500y9.html

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bet she never pays.

 

[BlackSmith]

LMAO at RESPECT...
After apologizing for grabbing her breast Ellis also apologized for making a joke about thinking "Ariana Grande" was a new item on the Taco Bell menu.
https://pagesix.com/2018/09/01/aretha-franklin-funeral-bishop-apologizes-to-ariana-grande/

 

[MasterBlaster]

Her boyfriend's gonna kick his holy ass.

 

[Mick!]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45411561

I like this story, great the support he got, he needed work so he worked. More power to his elbow.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Saw that earlier.

Crazy story.