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Canada wildfires leaves train 'encased in flames' as smoke from drifts towards US

The crew was rescued after the close call. Meanwhile, blazes in Canada have left Toronto under a haze and smoke heading towards several major US cities.
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Not far away from here. Bet those boys were glad CN switched to concrete railroad ties (you can see ties in adjacent track when camera pans to right). Creosote ties and they probably would have derailed and burned up. These guys didn't have a choice. They couldn't move without risking collision with oncoming freight train. The engineers were surprisingly cool headed.

Air is so thick the last two days you can cut it with a knife.
 
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We have a few fires burning in NW Ontario.
 
Ontario Hunter said:
www.bbc.com

Canada wildfires leaves train 'encased in flames' as smoke from drifts towards US

The crew was rescued after the close call. Meanwhile, blazes in Canada have left Toronto under a haze and smoke heading towards several major US cities.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

Not far away from here. Bet those boys were glad CNR switched to concrete railroad ties (you can see ties in adjacent track when camera pans to right). Creosote ties and they probably would have derailed and burned up. These guys didn't have a choice. They couldn't move without risking collision with oncoming freight train. The engineers were surprisingly cool headed.

Air is so thick the last two days you can cut it with a knife.
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BE SAFE O-H!
 
Town of Collins entirely burn to grown. I’m west 41/2 hrs from OH. Several towns in area are ready for evacuation as many smaller fires 28 in total popped up since Monday and most already out of control not enough fire fighters to go around
 
Keep safe!
 
Keep the dogs inside?
 
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Fishing at Camp Lake St Joseph this week, had a fire about a mile and a half away yesterday, constant stream of helicopters coming in for water to drop. Pop up fires every day but they seem to be well controlled.
 
I'm in northern Lower Michigan. I've had ashes on my truck all day today.
I Hope everyone is safe in the fire zones.
 
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Yes. The first day of smoke poor old Puppy could not settle down. She just wandered back and forth panting. Of course it was also terribly hot (+40°C). Her arthritis was bothering her a bit but she still wouldn't settle down. I finally gave her a pain med and that helped. She's been better the last two days. I'd love to take them to the lake in city park for a swim but my vehicle is in pieces. It needed new valve cover gaskets and what a bitch that job turned into. Finally got it apart and then the heat wave hit. I won't walk the dogs around the block when it's that hot. First day it actually got hotter after dark. And then the fog moved in from the big lake. With that heat plus smoke mixed with 100% humidity ... very toxic brew. I fought a lot of wildfires over the years but I never encountered those conditions. Just awful!
 
Take good care of those canine friends and they will take good care of you
 
It’s been a weird kind of twilight zone with the light around here, the past couple of days. The smell of wood smoke is thick in the air, as well.
 

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'Was in 3 states today (rural NY/NJ/PA-vacationland) and all looked like the worst case of smog (and after a few hours out in the high heat and smoke I was choking a bit and my sinuses were messed up!) Then my Mom sent me photos of the DOT warning signs on Interstates (stay inside!) Friend up on the VT/QB border said it was bad there as well. It's amazing how far it travels!! (Daughter in the high plains of CO is experiencing same from fires in the Rockies there.) None of us will remember this, but my G. Grandfather wrote in his journal about a year we had without Summer (snow in July and the skies were always "cloudy.") A big Pacific volcano eruption belched so much ash into the air it effectively blocked the Sun and dramatically shifted the weather. Look it up! He lived from 1875-1975 and was the first person to take me out hunting (as a tag-along tyke. He got a nice buck with his 1800s plains rifle. I have the pic/rifle/deer (I got the rack mounted using another big buck hide) all hanging together in my living room. Be very safe. This is where an A/C unit or dehumidifier (and one of those indoor filtration units) is/are your friend!!!!!
 
**Correction! He wrote and talked about it, but in-fact it was his Grandfather (and Father) that told stories about it (it occurred in the early 1800s.) True story, but a hundred years earlier. They (English shipbuilders in the Colonies since 1630 that toughed it out (shipyards burned, had to rebuild elsewhere!) to create the USA 150 years later) ALL kept journals, some of which eventually became books.
 
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Town of Collins entirely burn to grown. I’m west 41/2 hrs from OH. Several towns in area are ready for evacuation as many smaller fires 28 in total popped up since Monday and most already out of control not enough fire fighters to go around
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Had to remove intake manifold to get valve cover off the straight six in my Envoy. Discovered this morning when finally cool enough to put the car back together that intake gaskets are also shot. New set shipped from Winnipeg today. Hopefully arrive tomorrow a.m. ... if the Trans-Canada highway doesn't close. Lac d' Milles Lac is surrounded and I also heard Kashabowe is burning. One of the Stahl brothers has a mansion on Shebandowan. Hope they can save it for him. My daughter's girlfriend just lost the family cottage at Quetico. Apparently they had to race for their lives to get out ahead of flames. I understand it was quite a structure. There are benefits to living in town. Have you lost power yet? That's always the worst side effect of these fires. Can sometimes take months to replace power lines after big fires. I'm sure you experienced that a time or two at the lodge? Or did you have your own generator?
 
We had power most of the tome hydro dam only a mile away at Ear Falls. Power line to Pickel lake and mines there burned down for about 10+ km they took several werks to restore and then second fire destroyed it again. Red lake was evacuated three times in my 22 years at camp we always housef all we could. Here in VBay we made room again five years ago. Just hope that casualties remain at zero
 
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**Correction! He wrote and talked about it, but in-fact it was his Grandfather (and Father) that told stories about it (it occurred in the early 1800s.) True story, but a hundred years earlier. They (English shipbuilders in the Colonies since 1630 that toughed it out (shipyards burned, had to rebuild elsewhere!) to create the USA 150 years later) ALL kept journals, some of which eventually became books.
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Krakatoa in the South Pacific erupted in August 1883 with enough ferocity to obliterate 2/3 of the island. The explosion and tsunamis killed 36K to 120K. The summer temperature across the globe dropped 0.72°F and the resultant severe winter is known not so affectionately in North America as the "Starvation Winter." The tsunamis created by the eruption traveled around the globe ... three times! The second giant eruption was Mount Katmai in Alaska, 1916. Similar to Krakatoa, the entire mountain was obliterated in 45 minutes. Pyroclastic material filled the downstream river valley to depths of 1500 ft. Fortunately there was apparently only one casualty, an old native on Kodiak Island that, as I recall, died from complications of breathing ash and preexisting lung condition. The natives in the interior recognized the odd behavior of animals and evacuated via canoes to King Salmon in time. Your great grandfather could have lived to see environmental side effects of both volcanoes, though he would only have been eight years old when Krakatoa erupted.
 
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