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Marijuana Nihilist
Aug 27, 2015

by Smythe

boom boom boom posted:

Seriously? So why do we care about this?

because people from fort mac are whiny little bitches who will cry over the slightest bit of adversity

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mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Marijuana Nihilist posted:

because people from Alberta are whiny little bitches who will cry over the slightest bit of adversity


also an unnumbered amount of pets died

Jst0rm
Sep 16, 2012
Grimey Drawer
nature owned them noobs.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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boom boom boom posted:

Seriously? So why do we care about this?

a decade of conservative economic policy literally going up in flames

also they built a city in the middle of a forest in a wildfire prone region

Marijuana Nihilist
Aug 27, 2015

by Smythe
even though whole cities are burning due to wildfires now is definitely not the time to talk about climate change

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Fojar38 posted:

3 decades of conservative economic policy literally going up in flames

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Marijuana Nihilist posted:

even though whole cities are burning due to wildfires now is definitely not the time to talk about climate change

tbf western north america is like one of the most wildfire-prone regions of the world and always has been, nobody who still denies climate change is going to be convinced by wildfires in alberta

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
I got this exclusive video of ralph klein visiting the evacuees

Keg
Sep 22, 2014
If this happened in the USA how long do you think it would take before people would start looting houses?

Marijuana Nihilist
Aug 27, 2015

by Smythe
the idea that hotter drier seasons leads to more intense, more frequent wildfires would be too much of an intellectual leap for the average rigpig

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Keg posted:

If this happened in the USA how long do you think it would take before people would start looting houses?

the burnt ones, or the ones on fire?

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I got this exclusive video of ralph klein visiting the evacuees



Ralph Klein is dead, that's actually Stephen Harper.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Keg posted:

If this happened in the USA how long do you think it would take before people would start looting houses?
probably never, unless there are a lot of people who want to loot burned-up crap

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Picnic Princess posted:

Ralph Klein is dead, that's actually Stephen Harper.

as if ralph klein wouldn't rise from his grave to once again toss change at homeless people

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Y-Hat posted:

probably never, unless there are a lot of people who want to loot burned-up crap

Gun safes

Kevyn
Mar 5, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 27 hours!

Jonny 290 posted:

has canada called this 'our katrina' yet or demanded that the weather services start naming large fires

Justin Trudeau doesn't care about relocated newfies

crowoutofcontext
Nov 12, 2006

Here is some scale:

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

crowoutofcontext posted:

Here is some scale:


Here is some more scale:

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

PK loving SUBBAN posted:

Here is some more scale:



God willing

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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crowoutofcontext posted:

Here is some scale:


okay but what does fort mcmurray look like after the forest fire started?

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

crowoutofcontext posted:

Here is some scale:


I was looking for some scale ariels thx

Can you put on the McDonald's/hortons locations tho?

Hirethor
Dec 16, 2008

You think you know hip?
YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT BEING HIP!

Darth123123 posted:

I was looking for some scale ariels thx

Can you put on the McDonald's/hortons locations tho?

crowoutofcontext
Nov 12, 2006

Oh poo poo, this girl has a security camera she could log in and see if her house is on fire, and if her cat is still alive!!

:smith:

And before people start calling her an idiot sociopath for abandoning her cat-she was on vacation when the fire first struck and wasn't comfortable asking any of the friends to risk their lives to save her pet. Apparently theres buildings on her street that have burnt down.
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/05/05/security-cams-keep-fort-mcmurray-woman-updated-on-status-of-home-cat/

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.
It's amazing that any telecom is still working there. Congrats on the kitten barbeque livefeed.

DONKEY SALAMI
Jun 28, 2008

donkey? donkey?

Is moistface okay hasn't posted sine remarried

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

crowoutofcontext posted:

Here is some scale:


I made this earlier today

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!

Here's another great story on why Albertans are retarded as gently caress. During the floods in Calgary a few years ago, the RCMP went through evacuated houses looking for unsecured guns, secured them and then returned them to the owners when they returned. This was somehow spun by gun idiots into the federal government (which at the time was our version of Republicans but without the polish) wanting to snatch everyones guns.

So now you have the same idiots posting all over facebook warning people not to leave their guns at home. But not so that people won't loot them, but so that the RCMP don't snatch them.

I hope the whole province burns to the ground.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

nature6pk posted:

I hope the whole province burns to the ground.

hey gently caress you

Vakal
May 11, 2008

SmokaDustbowl posted:

hey gently caress you

Ok, we'll spare Banff.

Marijuana Nihilist
Aug 27, 2015

by Smythe
Tensions mount on blockade north of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tensions-mount-on-blockade-north-of-fire-ravaged-fort-mcmurray-1.3568873)

quote:

Frustration of evacuees stranded north of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray is spilling over onto Highway 63.

Thousands of vehicles lined up Wednesday at a blockade established at the perimeter of the evacuation zone on the north city limits.

All roads into the fire-ravaged city are closed, but residents and workers are desperate to get through.

"There are about 15 kilometres worth of vehicles just sitting here, waiting to leave," said Alex Ve Soto, a Syncrude worker who had been waiting in the line for more than seven hours as of mid-afternoon on Thursday.

"We're kind of at a standstill. We're just going to wait it out, but it's not looking too good. Every now and then, you'll hear a whole bunch of people honking their horns and scream and yell. It's getting a little heated out here."

Shortly after noon on Thursday the situation grew tense as a group of vehicles charged the RCMP barricades, Ve Soto said.

"A group of about 25 to 30 vehicles made a push for the road, and one of the police officers jumped in front of his car so no one would ram it out of the way," he said.


"I was just in awe of what was happening."

Ve Soto says the aggressive drivers were not charged or arrested and police have stopped threatening to fine drivers for waiting in line.

"They're just trying to calm everyone down right now, to make sure it doesn't get out of hand because it could very quickly," said Vesoto.

"There is only about eight police officers out here. That's all there is, and there has got to be at least 10,000 people out on this highway."

RCMP Sgt. Jack Poitras had not heard of any major issues at the north blockade, but says he had heard reports of drivers trying to sneak past a set of barricades near Conklin to get back into Fort McMurray.

"We have more roadblocks up ahead, but we just catch them up further. But we're still under evacuation order so they end up getting turned around anyway."

this is how the average Albertan acts during a time of crisis

Japanese people would be lining up in orderly queues waiting for authorities to notify them while making the best of a bad situation

Albertans go mad max at the drop of a pin

edit: for extra lols watch the video in the url

Marijuana Nihilist fucked around with this message at 05:18 on May 6, 2016

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.
:cripes:

So the people talking to reporters are the drug addicts tweaking out, right?

mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 05:48 on May 6, 2016

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Airborne Viking posted:

:cripes:

So the people talking to reporters are the drug addicts tweaking out, right?

yeah probably

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
if it's not meth fuckers it's the freemen on the land type folks, but it's a small minority

all the families and poo poo have hosed off long before

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





Picnic Princess posted:

I made this earlier today



Are the lines on the left the incoming missile strikes?

Hirethor
Dec 16, 2008

You think you know hip?
YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT BEING HIP!

The Locator posted:

Are the lines on the left the incoming missile strikes?

Decrepit Russian bombers.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Hirethor posted:

Decrepit Russian bombers.

putin is trying to get all the ukrainians who moved to alberta

BANME.sh
Jan 23, 2008

What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??
Grimey Drawer
the call for a voluntary evac lasted only 30 minutes in most areas before it was upgraded to a mandatory evac. you also have to realize how fast this fire spreads. It doubled in size the first day and then grew 8x the size by the second day. There was literally no way to go home and get pets or belongings for many people, especially those working in the oil sands up north

Also two babies were born during this mess, so we're in the negative for human casualties

BANME.sh fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 6, 2016

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

BANME.sh posted:

the call for a voluntary evac lasted only 30 minutes in most areas before it was upgraded to a mandatory evac. you also have to realize how fast this fire spreads. It doubled in size the first day and then grew 8x the size by the second day. There was literally no way to go home and get pets or belongings for many people, especially those working in the oil sands up north

Also two babies were born during this mess, so we're in the negative for human casualties

a lot of evacuees are chillin at northlands so there's that

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
How the gently caress are there no deaths? Is this how we find out that Canadians are made out of some synthetic alloy that melts at 200000? Degrees? Cray! Glad they're alive!

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Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Airborne Viking posted:

:cripes:

So the people talking to reporters are the drug addicts tweaking out, right?

Probably started the fire cooking in their trailer park.

Sharzak posted:

How the gently caress are there no deaths? Is this how we find out that Canadians are made out of some synthetic alloy that melts at 200000? Degrees? Cray! Glad they're alive!

There were two fatalities the other day due to a collision on one of the evacuation highways, which prompted yet another fire to break out along that road too.

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