Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Thousands in Canada flee severe wildfires in north and west | DW News" video.

  1. They also evacuate towns without looting (and no, there are no soldiers with automatic weapons patrolling) Years ago, my parents and 750,000 other were evacuated from a place called Mississauga when a train load of chlorine wrecked nearby. There was not one single case of looting, even though the police were really thin on the ground.
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  2.  @ToneyCrimson  There are like 40 million people in Canada (1/8th the population of the US). You need to stop sniffing that stuff.
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  3.  @tikklemeelmo  Lol ... Albertan, right?
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  4. I was in a fire about 30 years ago in the Yukon. We were driving from Mayo to Whitehorse and the highway was closed for a time. When it re-opened, we drove down a road with the fire still smoldering and burning on each side. The road surface was blotched with orange fire retardant here and there. It was an immense fire. The Provincial flower of Yukon is the Fire Weed.
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  5.  @maxineporter8848  I remember a Parks Canada guide (30 years ago) saying that they got a lot of German tourists in the Yukon. At that time, many of them remembered the war years and they said that the German cities were full of Fireweed after the bombings.
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  6. I was in Halifax a month before the fires hit south f there. Nova Scotia us often soaking wet and it was a surprise how dry it was. There is no "forest fire" safe Province and every one of them (except for PEI) has forests. Ontario's and Quebec's are vast.
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  7. True but the Interior of BC has always been dry. Cactus and sagebrush grow naturally around the Kamloops area. The Interior is a rain shadow in the lee of the coastal mountains.
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  8. It's going to peter out somewhere around Vegas. That'll be interesting if it is still energetic, there.
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  9. The Northwest Territories is twice the size of France.
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  10.  @newcoyote  I've done that but not lately. I'm a old guy, now. By the way, for you Westerners ... if you start driving in the East of Ontario where the people live heading West for 2,225 kms and 25 hours of straight driving you will still be in Ontario. You might not have scalar experience to know how really large Quebec and Ontario really are.
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  11.  @juliestanfield8433  ... and ....?
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  12. @@garrusvakarian8709 It's not the rain forest part of BC that's burning.
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  13.  @newcoyote  So, you know how vast some of these places are. BC is huge, so are Quebec and Ontario. Quebec is bigger than the Northwest Territories.
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  14.  @MrMannyhw  On the contrary, these forest fires are natural part of the life of the Boreal Forest. The cones of several conifer species only open and seed with the heat of fire. The problem is that humans intervene to prevent them and when they finally burn, they do so with greater intensity. Fire is nature conservancy.
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  15.  @melindacadarette3447  My family are all in the West. My folks lived in the Shuswap before they died. The fires are pretty close to where they were. It is always hot and dry, there.
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