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From: LoneClone	7/13/2014 6:05:14 PM
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The weather is playing havoc all across Canada. There are still over 10k homes in New Brunswick without power due to Arthur. That's how bad it was a week ago. Much of Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan is still under water, with worse to come for Manitoba. A huge area of the Northwest Territories is on fire. (Keep in mind that NWT is over half a million square miles in size.) Unfortunately resources are so stretched that isolated dwellings and even small communities are being left on their own to try to save themselves. And temperature records are falling all across BC, again triggering huge forest fires, many still not under control. Even here in Vancouver it is making it into the low 30s ever day; if I remember right that's the mid- to high-80s in Fahrenheit. That might seem too bad to some of you, but remember we are not set up for this. Very few houses have air conditioning because it rarely gets this hot here; many years it never gets this hot at all. I haven't had a good night's sleep in days due to the heat, and I probably won't get much sleep tonight. It is now 27 degrees, around 80F, in my ground floor apartment on the north side of a building. LC

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