<OT> To all New Zealand SxS members

[Ted Ozolins]

burns wrote:

> I've also just heard from my sister-in-law that they are under
> evacuation notice as part of the forest fires in Kelowna, British
> Columbia (western Canada). The mountain behind their house is ablaze and
> ash is dropping on their front garden. Last night 25 houses further out
> were burned, although it's got a way to go yet to reach my in-laws.
> Their bags are packed in the front hallway. Guess people everywhere are
> coping with these things that get dropped on us.

I'm across the lake from Kelowna and believe me its one heck of a scary 
sight. A large part of Kelown is under evacuation notice. Quite a few 
homes have been lost and more anticipated. This is one fire that should 
have been stopped dead in its track, but as always too little too late 
has created one heck of a mess here. At the begining the Forestry had 
four golden opertunities to stop the advance of this fire but they chose 
not to act. Its been a jurisdictional pissing match from the start and 
now a lot of good people are losing their homes. These homes are not 
ones in the interface but in the town itself. If there was any justice 
on earth, then only bureaucrats would perish in natural desasters. Here 
I go dreaming again<sigh>

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.