How much does this contribute world wide to air pollution?
Eating is a function, not an art.
With all that heavy rain in Germany maybe a decent defensive midfielder will float his way to Liverpool 
Got hit hard by hail just over a week ago - caused an electrical outage. Much like tornados, what used to be quite rare is now becoming a normal part of our summer.
on the other side of the world, Lahaina Harbor is on fire.
36 dead now.
yep, my parents’ favorite place on earth. Couple of my friends too.
It’s terrifying. There are reports of people having to hide out in the sea because there was no where else to go.
One of my favorite neighborhood spots just announced that they can no longer open for lunch as normal because of safety issues they’ve been experiencing caused by the heat. They’re be closed until at least monday and will then reevaluate based on the weather forecast.
Interesting idea: no in-built battery = cheap scooter.
The incredibly difficult thing now is where to evacuate to - you need a center of comparable size to support that displaced population. By road, the closest city of Yellowknife’s size, almost 1500km on roads that one does not go much faster than 100 km/h on - especially if they are going to unprecedentedly crowded. That’s like evacuating from Paris to Warsaw.
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yep, it’s going to get ugly really quickly up there. how long ago were the Fort MacMurray fires? I see a theme…
One of the concerns I read about, was the amount of available gasoline in Yellowknife for all of the vehicles needed to evacuate that city by Friday at noon which is the advised deadline. they have to truck fuel in to get those people out. how many people you know want to drive a tanker loaded with gasoline into a forest fire area!?!?!
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Arminius is on the other side of the country. about 4900km from yellowknife
I’m about 2500km away. my province actually shares some geographic border with NorthWest Territory where Yellowknife is located, but it’s about a 24hr drive (2300km).
Canada is biiiig
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Oh OK. But is that the only place with wildfires?
No, even the fires on my side of the country are a long way away (closest is about 600km), and right now we are not even seeing traces of smoke.
They are moving tanker trucks and towing capacity up the Highway, because it is just two lanes. Once the traffic reaches the line of Fort Vermilion, the logistics capacity is probably OK. But from Yellowknife to High Level (Alberta), a distance of 716km, there were just 5 gas stations. The one at the approximate midpoint in Enterprise (NWT) has already been destroyed by fire. The one closest to Yellowknife at Enzo is normally about an hour, but it was a 5 hour drive earlier today due to congestion
and it is running very low. From there to Indian Cabins (~450km) there is just one, at Fort Providence.
It is like a dress rehearsal for the zombie apocalypse