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Filed under: -Photography, Climate, Environment, Fire and Flood, Government Works, Public safety, Technology, Workers Safety by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
August 17, 2021

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.

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Serious Presence, Including HDD…

Nicola River File Photo KDG

Still in the Q for crossing ?

Playlist : Leon Bridges…

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On this Day: August 17th 1959

Quake lake is formed in Montana.

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Music in the park, smoke and mirrors…

Filed under: -Photography, Arts and Culture, Dark Humour by Kevin Griffiths — Leave a comment
August 16, 2021

On this Day: August 16th 1896

The Klondike Gold rush begins.

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TGIF- Friday the 13th, lost its charm!

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August 13, 2021

You do not have to be afraid of Friday the 13th, why? Because its lost its charm to the fear of the unknown and gained by the liberty of the experienced and the prowess of the wise. Superstition is done, cause and effect is 98 percent explained. That leaves 2 percent for me ( how to win the heart of a fair lady) can someone explain in 3 paragraphs or less. That would end all wondering about phenomena.

Sometimes known as date night Fridays must be excused from the 13th’s energy and success with the smarter gender still needs a real world reason; or not. Who can explain love? No sensei trying unless maybe a wise God has given us a scientific control. But that can’t be ,as love is not an experiment , it is a power.

However in the clinical sense they have terms: Love sick, , Love struck, Amour de la malade and any other that might fit symptoms of that funny feeling! If indeed the term lucky in love should retain its meaning then what? Well lets bar Friday the 13th by statute, as superstition!

Good luck to you and to blazes with superstition and bad luck: click below for playlist.

Full August moon, Take my Breath


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On this Day: August 13th 1905

Norway and Sweden split.

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Happy Air Conditioning Appreciation Week, July 3th to August 15th!

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August 12, 2021

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.

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WE are having a heatwave a tropical heatwave…

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August 11, 2021

Take my Breath away, below click.

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

Hey! it’s those 2 lines around planet earth called the tropics where our imaginations have caused us to limit legitimate heat extremes existence. Well between them and the Equator the line in the sand has be drawn, or not?

We are having a heat wave a polar heat wave!

So June 12th 2021 I took 8 photos of a sun dog in the western sky about 40 degrees in the horizon and the dome of the sky. Hexagon ice crystal in the Sirius cloud space cause a 22 degree circle to dog the sun. That Ice was pushed from the artic when warm vortex winds pushed it down from the pole to us.

Summer Solstice.

Summer Solstice was nearing on the 12th and the 23 degree tip of the Northern Hemisphere toward the sun was coming into full, meaning that the sun was closes to are artic pole then it would be in the 2021 summer season. The heat was creating the vortex driving the artic air that gave us a cool spring in front of it, with the Sun Dog ice along for the ride.

50 degrees C June 26th 2021

Our temperature reading comes from Lytton BC and the 26th of June Lytton was the top of a heat dome that took the town out. The heated air from the sun with the earth at its greatest tip was up to bat after delivering the sun dog on the 12th.

Be ready next year.

Be ready for that time period next year, and watch for the winter solstice here as the tip of the sun will be at its most in Antarctica on .that the December 21st (circa).

On this Day: August 12th 1990

Sue is found in South Dakota.

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Nicola River crossing 8/21-10/21, Trans Mountain Expansion…

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August 10, 2021
Pig catcher for an instrument that
Xrays internal pipe.
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To Burnaby and beyond.

The Trans Mountain expansion is scheduled to start its Nicola river crossing this month. { permits permitting).

*Activities may begin as early as August, pending all necessary permits and approvals.

Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) will be used to cross under the Nicola River. This work takes place in a phased approach beginning with the establishment of temporary work spaces on either side of the area being crossed. One site will house a drilling rig and associated equipment, and the other will serve as a staging site for the pipe and will include welding and pipe stringing. After the site is prepared the crossing will be drilled, and then pipe pulled back through. After the drilling phase is complete the site will be cleared and returned to its original use.

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Internet all the way, 1000 KM, on top of the pipe.

The expansion and redo of the 60 year old Trans Mountain oil line to Burnaby from Edmonton is employing nearly 10,000 people at this point. A great deal of national prestige and the sense that we as a people can do something and do it right is balanced on the outcome of this venture.

Nearly all the social economic and cultural definitions of Canadians is being tested with this pipeline.Today we start to present a series of 🎭 article for your perosal.

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1000 KM and internet all the way.

The pipeline will have fiber optics on its own, the fiber will power ,a new leak monitoring system as well as provide internet to a number of isolated rural communities in it’s path.

On this Day: August 10th 1948

Editor’s note: Pig maybe old technology ,will check it out.

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Happy International Indigenous day.

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August 9, 2021

August 9th is International Indigenous day, worldwide.

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North West Coast Art Mask
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Each year, 9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is celebrated around the world and marks the date of the inaugural session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the United Nations in 1982.

As part of the commemoration, the Indigenous Peoples and Development Branch – Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/DISD/DESA is organizing a virtual event. Indigenous Peoples, Member States, UN entities, civil society, and the general public are all invited.

The 2021 commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will focus on the theme “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract” to be held on Monday, 9 August from 9 am to 11 am (EST).

Simultaneous Interpretation in English-Spanish and vice-versa is available thanks to the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC

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TGIF- Happy wiggle your toes day!

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August 6, 2021

One ,Two, Three Wiggle!

Your in complete control of those digits, no one else has that power; so go for it .Wiggle away ,its good for the soul, and the laces.

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Arnold Palmer shoes left behind…

Duffer..

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Be kind , be glad , be smart.

On this Day: August 6th 1996

Nasa says a meteor from Mars has primitive life forms evidence in it.

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August art show…

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August 5, 2021

A second of time.

A song of regret and redemption!

Long ago in my crass,  I  sensed  challenge  to my zone.
 Yes some one's area was not my own.
Territory for me was a right of way. 
Move over or face the sway.

Cheap and bland was my stand.
Your share of mind is  more then land.
Its a dumb argument I can work.
To cause delay and stoop to lurk.

Make you prove because it is   yours. 
Give row to me,  my due of  you.
Just because I can;  see my retort!
You want to share, and get support,

Challenge is what came around.
A loss of energy to confound
Could have been spent in sweet love.
A magnet of charm, a white glove.

To soon old to late wise, give it back my reprise.
No not accounts, but radiant life; a moment back.
Only you can deliver me from this shame.
My ego, I promise; will I  tame.

Just because you have it to give, make it so.
No cost to either, to keep this  inner flow.
 Eternal joy between you and me, no hurt.
It's what I missed, in a second of time; with my blurt!

All my love to redeem. KDG

On this Day: August 5th 1914

First Electric traffic light.

Stop go wait!
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Chopper watch above…

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August 4, 2021

Working helicopters are still above. In most instances they are away from public however some waterways are used by them. They need a wide space to fill buckets and get back to altitude.

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Watch above
File Photo KDG

Air attack is an industry term used for the actual application of aerial resources, both fixed-wing and rotorcraft, on a fire. Within the industry, though, “air attack” may also refer to the supervisor in the air (usually in a fixed-wing aircraft) who supervises the process of attacking the wildfire from the air, including fixed-wing airtankers, helicopters, and any other aviation resources assigned to the fire. The Air Tactical Group Supervisor (ATGS), often called “air attack”, is usually flying at an altitude above other resources assigned to the fire, often in a fixed-wing plane but occasionally (depending on assigned resources or the availability of qualified personnel) in a helicopter.

Depending on the size, location, and assessed potential of the wildfire, the “air attack” or ATGS person may be charged with initial attack (the first response of firefighting assets on fire suppression), or with extended attack, the ongoing response to and management of a major wildfire requiring additional resources including engines, ground crews, and other aviation personnel and aircraft needed to control the fire and establish control lines or firelines ahead of the wildfire.[

On this Day: August 3rd 1997

Sky Tower opens in Auckland New Zealand.

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Dawg days of summer…

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August 3, 2021

No its not your pet it is the the dog star, Sirius, Canis Majoros, its the star the ancients waited to see come above the horizon so it was safe to plant along the Nile river because that God was watching over them.

That star is more that 2 solar mass’s and 10,000 degrees Celsius on its surface making it the brightest star in the night sky.

Mid August helical rising above the horizon in north America should see it come into view in the eastern sky before sunrise.

August 11th 2021 good conditions.

The star may be visible without scopes on August 11th 2021 at 41.7 north above the horizon.

Hot and enjoyable summer days.

The dog days of summer are hot and enjoyable with overnight lows cooling and giving a pleasant time of temperate and hopeful days. (Crops coming up)!

Cooling for the night.

Soak your pillow cases in cold tap water ring them out and dry some before bedtime. Maybe sheets too. Or put them in the fridge to cool them down before going to bed.

Bucket of cold water to put your feet in if you wake.

Close blinds and curtains during day.

Ensure your fans are pushing air optimally not hot air that has risen to the ceiling down to your living space.

Stay happy don’t get hot under the collar.

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On this Day: August 3rd 1678

The Griffon is built for the great lakes navigation.

Music playlist:

Stay the course my lovely.https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXXVS6Hil4&feature=share

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Music in the park.

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August 2, 2021

The City of Merritt is hosting music in the park at this time The place is central park ( Rotary park) Thursdays at 6PM. Reservations for your place to sit with your own collapsible chairs may be needed. Call 250- 378 1050 FMI.

On this Day: August 2nd 1802

Napoleon Bonaparte becomes consul for life.

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Princess Diana memorial band shell
File Photo KDG Merritt BC
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