Originally Posted by David Cotterell
The fires are in very remote areas but there are some isolated native communities near some of them...many have had to evacuate.
The smoke is affecting many millions of people, however.
There is a low pressure system that has been stuck over Nova Scotia for a week or more. The backside airflow is coming down over the eastern Great Lakes and on into New England, New Jersey and New York... If this system moves off the smoke will blow into the mostly uninhabited North Atlantic region....but when will this low move?
Dave
I just hate seeing one of the most beautiful places on the planet scarred so much by these fires, even though it is necessary in the long run.
One of the few things on my bucket list is a winter camping trek through some of the lake areas in Ontario or similar. Something akin to this:
https://youtu.be/RoGe1SRbQDY
I'm probably never going to be healthy enough to do much snowshoe trail-breaking, so it's probably going to have to be on a snowmobile.
I wanted to buy some land there, but Americans are not legally able to at the moment, which is an enormous mistake by the Canadian government. Canadians are the #1 foreign owners of US land, so I would not mess with that if I were Trudeau.
I thought about getting dual-citizenship. My father was Canadian and I think they have to accept my application on that basis, even though he became a US citizen late in life, but that's a lot of wrangling just to buy some recreational property.
Maybe one day...