Category: Fire and Flood


BC flooding update November 20th, 2021.

Highlights

A new atmospheric river ranking system coming.

Three highways with travel restrictions.

Ten days fuel rationing to aid commercial traffic.

Goods movements.

Pinch points in traffic.

Farmers market food hubs.

Agricultural resilance.

Not aware of medication shortages. Veterinarians are available.

Be patient with others, follow orders.

Merritt Flooding…

Highlights

Water shut off in Merritt

Under evacuation order (all)

Few days of dry in front of us.

Flooding in BC…

Highlights

One hundred people stuck in cars, 5 hrs ago

Local experts relied on…

Law regulates evacuation support.

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this Day: November 15th 1918The Spanish flu pandemic affirmed.

source never confirmed some estimates say up to 100 million deaths.

Air ambulance sitting at the airfield.
Health care takes a lot of support from many sources including you keeping your own. File photo KDG
Weather is one of the biggest
contributors to natural disasters

File Photo KDG

Natural Disasters world wide cost.

The most expensive year was 1986, 700 billion dollars USD for the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Four Hundred Sixteen disasters in 2020

The number of natural disasters globally was 416 in 2020. The range for the last 20 years go’s from 320 (2001) as a low to 430 (2006) as a high.

On this Day: October 8th 1970

The Nobel peace prize in Literature goes Alex Solzhenitsyn.

Trans Mountain Expansion Update…

The TMX organisation took part in the UBCM, Union of British Columbia Municipalities Convention this September.

Ian Anderson, Trans Mountain president hosted a virtual breakfast for 23 mayors of impacted communities through Microsoft teams.; this was the sixth breakfast TMX has participated in at the

UBCM annual conventions.

A matched donation to the Red Cross, Registered Fire Appeals Fund was made by TMX in support of the wildfire situation during the fire season.

10,000 workers engaged…

Pipe for oil field
File: Photo KDG

On this Day: September 28th 1825

The first passenger breaks the 15 MPH barrier, causing fear.

Happy World Physical Therapy Day…

Today is PT Day, kudos to those that relieve, repair and rehabilitate those that suffer.

Showing his wears File photo KDG

Physical therapy ( PT ), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the healthcare professions. Physical therapy is provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, prognosis, patient education, physical intervention, rehabilitation, disease prevention and health promotion.

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Nineteen percent of Canadians suffer from Chronic pain ( 6,000,000 people). You have an unadjusted 10.7 percent likely hood of having chronic pain from spinal cord trauma in Canada main; 2011 2012. Dropping down to to 8.3 when adjusted by age and sex. see help training University of Alberta in above photo.

Back trauma is mitigated by good use of posture and lifting techniques , some thing all people should be proactive about.

On this Day: September 8th 1988

Yellowstone National park is closed because of fires.

The National Parks…

The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke,
of the 2017 fire season in the Sothern interior of BC
File Photo KDG

TGIF- Fire Smart

The BC Government is having a seminar for Fire smart programs on August 26th. Made for local government it is being hosted by the; UBCM. titled Fire Smart Tips and Tricks it comes out of a information seminar presented in Merritt in recent years.

The webinar provide advice on accessing the FireSmart Toolkit; utilizing FireSmart BC’s social media accounts; working with FireSmart branding guidelines; accessing other FireSmart BC resources; and a provide brief overview of the 2022 Community Resiliency Investment (FireSmart Community Funding & Supports) funding program.

Button hole your local representative and make sure they take it serious.

The usefulness of this information can not be over stated. Anyone can visit the fires smart Bc website for perusal.


File Photo KDG

Click for UBCM

On this Day: August 20th 1866

American Civil war declared over..

Have a great and safe weekend…

Safety Dima Bilan

BC File Photo KDG

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2tv8OJKHY44&feature=share

Beware the Mushroom in the Forest You tube music

On this Day: August 19th 2017

Fish Escape

The Washington State Atlantic farmed salmon Pen Break.

Emergency assistance to keep the health and safety of workers.

Trans Mountain is available to assist in wildfire management in BC.

We have offered the use of our camp communities in Merritt and Clearwater for evacuees and are currently housing evacuees and firefighters working in the area in our Merritt facility. In Kamloops, work was stood down in Kenna Cartwright Park and Pineview Park areas as requested by the City of Kamloops, with team members helping to mitigate fire risk by wetting and cutting grass in areas under active construction for the Expansion Project. Trans Mountain also supported the Robson Valley Fire Service response efforts with a skidder and water tank after a fire ignited in the North Thompson region.

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Merritt BC Camp

The Merritt Camp Community is a self-sufficient site connected to power with on-site water and sewer infrastructure. The camp community will house up to 400 people working on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and is operated by Civeo through a joint venture partnership with the Lower Nicola Indian Band.

Source TMX today

Serious Presence, Including HDD…

Nicola River File Photo KDG

Still in the Q for crossing ?

Playlist : Leon Bridges…

You Tube Music
UTM

On this Day: August 17th 1959

Quake lake is formed in Montana.

Air conditioning is a real modern convenience, Hench a long week to appreciate its valour! Who else would commit its self to comfort in a era of GW.

Sun over wrights cable pixels in photo, from behind!

Song the Night air was cool behind photo!

The sun is our source for life.
and is fair to all. File Photo KDG

Put on your consumer smarts hat.

The weeks cool translates into next months power bill. There are lots of ways to cool to support appliances including cold dishes for dinner, landscaping with stone and shade plants for maximum advantage of conducting heat at optimal times and blocking sunlight at widows with blinds.

On this Day: August 12th 1952

The night of the murdered poets.

Fires and flood a part of life?

Eight severe storms , 1 wildfire, 2 cyclones, 3 inland floods is the tally for over billion dollars at each event.

On this Day: January 15th 1976

Shara Jane Moore gets life in prison.

Happy Emergency number day…

Bless the first responders File Photo KDG

Since 1987 in the US Emergency Number Day has been observed. Happy 911.

On this Day: September 11th 2001

The people of Goose Bay Labrador host Americans grounded by September 11th attacks.