Our nearest city’s flood defences are being tested this winter.

There is usually a path here…. Initially I thought there was also an alligator waiting for hardy souls still committed to using the path. I didn’t risk it even though my online phone map was trying to send me down it. In this case I definitely ignored the naviGATOR.

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  10. Sorry to hear/see that, Gary. I wish you could send some of that my way. We have had so little snow in Alberta, and with 63 forest fires still burning, we need water. 2033 was the worst year ever for wildfires — 2024 is expected to be worse!!!!!

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      1. They are not actively burning, but they have hunkered down into the ground and will flare up as soon as winter leaves our part of the world. Imagine like a lake of burning coals. On the surface you don’t see much, but below the surface you could roast a a cow.

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      3. So far, no. We are still considered to be under drought conditions. And it’s not just the fires thst are affected — the farmers depend on moisture from the melting snow in Spring. As of right now the moisture level is not enough to even germinate seeds.
        Last year the now melted too fast, and the water ran off instead of soaking in. We hsd over 1000 wildfires last year. I don’t want to imagine what next year could be like.

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  11. Plenty of roads around here unpassable, trains cancelled and fields like lakes. Broadcasts sent to all staff to be aware some road conditions… and also “Mindful” (I do hate that word being used, sometimes it’s a way to project blame towards the person, when actually it’s the guilty trying to cover their butts and …)
    Moving swiftly on, to be mindful of travelling, to take alternative routes… to keep in touch with the office and phones charged.

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