[CrazyCanuck007]

went to work yesterday and the store i work in had smoke inside for the better part of the morning until the winds shifted. people i work with had ash on their cars too.
i just think it's fun to see everyone blame the other...

[TonyCanuck]

lily lily:

I read in one paper that a local farmer had threatened to sue if the water level wasn't lowered as it was affecting his land... and that's maybe why it was so dry.


Burns Bog will never be developed... we here in Delta, particularly the south part, scream loud and long at the threat of any development that could have an adverse effect on our precious lifestyle.

Yeah I read that as well Lily about the water level....
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005 ... 07-cp.html

It is actually very nice this morning....no smoke that I can see. Apparently it is 80% contained now.

[twister]

80% on top.. no telling how far underneath the flames have spread... smoldering...

[CanadianLynx]

Just heard that they have discoverd an illegal road in the bog leading to a possible grow-up house..

[D_T_M]

Geez, you cant take one step in this province without discovering a grow-up...

[CanadianLynx]

lily lily:

I thought all the grow-ups were in White Rock.

Or even Victoria.

lily you been holding out on us...eh?
Was wondering about that avatar of yous......

[Blue_Nose]

Grow up?? Is that like a Grow op?

Sorry for all you BCians, but I find this bog fire incredibly interesting... I hadn't heard of this before now. I assume it's a pretty harmless event, other than the smoke?

[ShepherdsDog]

Harmless? like when a coal seam catches fire in Cape Breton. As long as no one is living in the immediate area, it's harmless. Those suckers can smolder for years and then flare up.

[Non-Rev]

How long do you think it will be before they re-name it Bog Burns?



Sorry, gang - that was bad..... I admit it.

[CanadianLynx]

lily lily:

It's a Chocolate lily.


The key word herwas "grow-up, though.

grow-up hmmm, now was that the chocolate lily i was smokeing,or something growing illegally in Burns Bog ..either way smoke in my eyes..

[TonyCanuck]

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/ ... 6-sun.html

It's a litte worse today where I work near the Fraser Surrey Docks but not nearly as bad as the other day.

[LittleBastard]

We have something similar going on here in the state of Pennsylvania... the Centralia mine fires that have been burning since 1961!

"Most of the residents were relocated over the years with grants from the federal government although some die-hards refused to be bought out and some still remain in the town."

Have a look...

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

[PluggyRug]

The part of England were I was raised (English Pennines) is mainly moorland peat bog, the stone is millstone grit. Back in 1975 after a long dry spell, the moors started to burn.

Month after month of thick heavy white smoke. There was no way to extinguish the smoldering peat as it covered approx' 200 square miles, and was burning under the surface.

That year in October we had some heavy rain which quenched the fires, or so it was thought. Later, five people died when hiking over the moors and fell into the voids created by the burnt underground peat, which was still smoldering.

It took two more years for the problem to go away.

Some of the larger millstone grit boulders which formed recognisable landmarks dissapeared into the voids

Frank