Not a Good Day to Die by Fire

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Hey Ratty! You need to stretch your speakers out the window and blast Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries' up to the skies!

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Oh that's scary. Hoping for rain for you!!

Unfortunately high winds and not much rain in the forecast until the end of the week.

M*A*S*H* eh? Switch the tune to ’Suicide is Painless'!

For once we are getting all the rain and very little of the wind!

you could have played loudon wainwrights here come the choppers

We've had rain here for the afternoon which interrupts the task of digging the garden by hand. We had a whole summer about 10 years ago where the helicopters came and went daily from the neighbours field as they battled a fire about 30 km east. Forestry chose neighbour's property as it is a bit more remote than the field they used the previous year where vehicles kept stopping along the highway. We are always thankful for rain as we have memories of the wildfire of 2003 that burned to within a km to the south and west.

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A guy on the CBC was saying they put out 11 fires started from campfires in just one small area this weekend.