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Started by kingston73 at 05-31-2010 5:59 PM. Topic has 9 replies.
  
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 05-31-2010, 5:59 PM
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kingston73
 
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Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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SO the fires in Quebec must be amazingly awful, because I live in S.E. Mass, on the RI border, and the air was clouded and smelled like a pile of wet leaves burning today. The smoke blew all the way down from Quebec, at least a couple hundred miles, so how bad must it be right there? Any of the rest of you guys notice it? The air in my whole town was literally smoky, like every single person in town all decided to burn their leaves at the same time. Craziest thing I think I've seen for a while.
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06-01-2010, 6:52 AM
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gopher
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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No, can't smell that one Kingston but the season for forest fires is here.
The boreal forest (map) in Canada has an average of 8000 fires a year, about half started by lightening, the rest man-made, some purposefully set as make-work projects by northerners. A yearly average of 6 million acres goes up in smoke and even here down on the prairie we get smoky days when the wind is northerly. We have a family wilderness cabin in the Shield, some days the sun is orange and the visibility is less than half a km. When ash starts falling, it's time to go, even though the fire may still be a long way away.
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06-01-2010, 7:06 AM
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spanish bandit
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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kingstone and dave,itl soon be here too,52c in the sun today in seville
when i feel the need,i do it,llego,ve 60,s
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06-01-2010, 7:12 AM
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gopher
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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52C ?? If that's not been mis-typed, that my friend is not a region where human beings belong. 
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06-01-2010, 7:23 AM
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spanish bandit
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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 gopher wrote: | 52C ?? If that's not been mis-typed, that my friend is not a region where human beings belong.
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no mistype,its on tv now,and its only june.............thats the street temperature at the moment.
when i feel the need,i do it,llego,ve 60,s
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06-01-2010, 10:20 AM
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gamache
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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I noticed the delicious aroma of wood smoke around 9am in Cambridge, MA... then figured something was up when I could barely see Boston over the river an hour or two later. My parents were in Montreal this weekend; they must have had it bad.
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06-01-2010, 10:26 AM
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Blindstitch
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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Does it smell like smoked canadian bacon?
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06-01-2010, 11:09 AM
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kingston73
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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More like soggy canadian maple trees. I guess they weren't all that soggy though if lightning made them ignite.
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06-01-2010, 11:35 AM
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gopher
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Mmmm, maple syryp cured bacon. And the best in the world is actually made in the USA. It says so on the packaging.
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06-01-2010, 6:06 PM
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Harold
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Re: Canada's on fire - anybody smell it?
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 If they got a fraction of the rain we had here in New Brunswick today there wouldn't be a fire left burning in the whole province.
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