How the hell do you progress when the world is burning down around you?

Sorry for the blatant title, and this fairly short blog post, but I need to get it out somehow or I’ll never get to sleep, let alone get anything done tomorrow.

See, sometime in the middle of July 2021, White Rock Lake/Monte Creek experienced a flash fire breakout, a small one, and it was managed poorly from the outset, then it launched itself into a major beast of a fire. That was ages ago in our real timeline.

There was a closer outbreak just north of us bordering Sicamous, and one on the east side of Mabel Lake, so smoke is an issue in this area.

Now a few years ago we had issues with smoke from huge but remote fires that weren’t threatening us here in my neck of the woods. That was a bad year, and we actually packed up and took a vay-cay to get away from it all.

But back then, nothing was threatening us. This year we’re surrounded by inferno, and it is only by God’s own grace that the roads are still mostly open.

So since the beginning of August, we’ve been on evacuation alert, then it was rescinded, then reinstated, and rescinded, and now its back with a vengeance. Winds this weekend made things so much worse. I just measured on the maps, and the front face of the most frightening fire for us is literally only 30km…