Posted on 08/16/2023 8:46:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Approaching wildfires are forcing the evacuation of the entire city of Yellowknife.
At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, the province’s minister of Environment and Climate Change and Municipal and Community Affairs announced an evacuation order for the 20,000 residents of Yellowknife and a handful of surrounding communities.
“Residents should evacuate according to risk. Residents living along the Ingraham Trail, in Dettah, Kam Lake, Grace Lake and Engle Business District are currently at highest risk and should evacuate as soon as possible. Other residents have until noon on Friday, August 18, 2023 to evacuate,” read the evacuation order.
The territorial government advised people to leave the city by vehicle. Only those who don’t have the option to leave by road will have access to air evacuation. Residents who are immunocompromised or who have a condition that puts them at higher risk of severe outcomes were encouraged to register for flights as soon as possible due to intensifying smoke in the region. Air evacuations are scheduled to begin early Thursday afternoon.
Despite the evacuation order, the government said that there will be facilities in Yellowknife available for residents who wish to shelter in place.
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Have been to Yellowknife. Played golf, fished, toured a gold mine. Fascinating place.
Flew into Yellowknife in June 2000 on the way to a Mars Society project on Devon Island.
You were really at the top of the world. Sounds like an amazing time.
Spent a week in Yellowknife. Toured the area in a floatplane, spent time with locals. Lovely trip.
They have a minister of Environment and Climate Change? I just quit caring.
Trudeau doing his part
You can read, but not comment, Maui was on LOCKDOWN
Crisis Update: Maui Land Grab Explains The Great Reset
First lockdown
It is hard to contain anger, for this is a man-made disaster. Officals will blame humanity, but it was caused by bureaucrats and the powers they serve.
Their compliance is what is so shocking, a friend says. The scale of the atrocity may not have been expected, but clearly the upper rank know what they are involved in, and do what is expected of them.
The cover up has begun. Welcome to climate lockdown — no land of milk and honey.
Traffic restrictions, road blocks, 15-minute cities, restrictions on water and electricity, limits on access to food — this is the UN Agenda 21: control of the population in the name of Climate Change. The events in Maui show how it works in practice.
Residents say they had been making progress putting out fires when the water was suddenly turned off. Officials say water pipes failed under extreme heat. In some places power was turned off but not, obviously, those electricity poles that fell on the grass and caused fires. Much of the cell phone service was out due to power outages.
Nothing explains how fires seem to have detonated within cars and homes often before wooden roofs or trees caught fire — perhaps an associated electrical surge.
Locked down in a burning town
Resident Willie McGrady spoke to NBC News from Lahaina during the fires and said he could not get out:
“A lot of people were supposed to leave today, yesterday. They cannot leave because when you leave our complex to head south of Lahaina all the roads are blocked off.”
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/crisis-update-maui-land-grab-explains
Maui Wildfires May Have Been Caused By Downed Power Lines https://www.oann.com/newsroom/maui-wildfires-may-have-been-caused-by-downed-power-lines/
GMTA
Maui Wildfires May Have Been Caused By Downed Power Lines
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If a tree fell on the line, and the tree should have been trimmed or removed but that was not allowed, is the power company still at fault?
We get T storms which are getting more frequent, along with ice storms, failure to trim trees is a very big issue, 100,000 or more can be affected for weeks. Especially on back roads in rural areas, we are the last fixed, Both sides of the 2-lane roads cover the lines. they come in and rip a few limbs down, but not far enough back, these are old-growth trees. Nor to they pave pot holes.
Nor to they pave pot holes.
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Do they put up a sign that says: Watch for Potholes?
Or a Tax Proposition on the ballot, “For Potholes”?
No! They don’t even re-stripe, some areas have too much shade and you can’t see the faded lines. Worse when it rains.
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