We're following it closely over here and await reports from all of you over there.

Pete, It is warming up, here. I would add that you need to keep the doors to your sinks open, so that the pipes can get some heat.

Pete, It is warming up, here. I would add that you need to keep the doors to your sinks open, so that the pipes can get some heat.

We don't have much of the problem of freezing pipes Grey because most homes now a days have better insulation in them because it's always cold in the winter months here. What is even better than keeping the sink doors open is to turn the taps on a wee bet and with the water flowing they won't freeze up because the water has an escape route and doesn't stay still in the pipes to freeze. Like Tommy mentioned that Buffalo storm was bad and people got stuck in their homes with ambulances, fire trucks and rescue groups unable to get to them. Seniors were running out of their Meds, pipes were freezing up and they lost electricity so even if the had a gas or oil furnace it won't work without electricity. We also got the same storm as Buffalo got and I'm 75 kms. north of Toronto. We have a pretty good town system that had all the roads and sidewalks ploughed by the day after. A big difference though that Buffalo because they were dealing in feet and we were only dealing with 8-10 inches. With Buffalo being so close to Lake Erie and Lake Ontario the winds get a chance to pick up the moisture from the Lakes and then drop it as snow on their south side of the lakes. We get lake effect snow also but it's off of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay mostly. It's been a funny weather type winter here this year so far. One minute we are way below freezing and the next it go up above freezing for a few days. The prevailing winds out of the west tell us in advance what weather to expect and when by the speed the winds are travelling toward us.

New York City and a lot of the Northeastern States right down to South Carolina are waking up to not just a smell of smoke in the air but New York City looks like it's in a the middle of a nuclear winter. Can't tell those NYer's though because they don't seem to realize this is not the time to be out jogging. Some interviewed said it doesn't look too bad to run but they don't know that forest fires fell the air with small particles of ash that most times can't even be seen with the human eye. The can cause damage to your lungs. There are well  hundreds fires burning across Canada but the ones affecting America's east coast are from Quebec and Nova Scotia.

I hear the States bitching about it but I haven't heard of any American being send north to help battle them yet.

I will let you in on a little secret. Buy all the toilet paper and paper towels before the rush hits because there will a shortage and the price will be going up.

According to a report by IndexBox, Canada constituted the largest supplier of toilet paper to the U.S., comprising 49% of total toilet paper imports in 2020. 

However, I couldn’t find any information on how much paper towel America gets from Canada but I imagine it's a lot..

We will remember you the next time you have a major storm and need every thing from clean drinking water to electricians to get you power back up. We will give you the water but you will have to use your own old plastic water bottles and we will need to use your trucks next time and we will need money for gas to run them on. We are not talking about a dumpster fire here but many millions of acres. Even bigger than your lodge. 

 Have extra toilet paper right now and I'm selling it one roll at a time to the highest bidder. Before the auction starts, I can let you have some under the going price of 10 dollars for only 5 a roll. Of course there is also postage and Provincial tax to be added. It could be delivered in 3-6 weeks if you pay a little extra.

Give you a friends deal and only ask for American dollars so you don't have to go through the hassle of exchanging funds  . There are 500 fires burning and a 100 of them are burning out of control in Quebec. At least 10,000 igloos have melted already.  Actually there really isn't any fires there. If there was, we would have seen pictures by now on all the Americans TV channels of the millions of acres already burnt. Has anybody seen any pictures?? No, I didn't think so. Actually most Americans don't even know what direction Canada is in far less where Quebec is. The smoke unfortunately will probably only get worse for you all down there. Nice and clear where I am at though. They figure all the fires should be out by next November when the snow storms start up again. If the hydro poles burn and the power tower bend with the extreme heat will this put the end coast of the States in another week long black out.

Folk in New York State are being advised to wear face masks due to the smog in the air, it'll be just like covid times again. 

Canada does not have the expertise, resources, or management skills & as a result there are over 450 wildfires raging across their country. Normally Americans would not care because Canada really does not count, but mother nature is blowing the foul Canadian winds down on us. So like always we have to bail the Canucks out by sending our firefighters & equipment up there to do the job they should be doing. Of course we are used to it because Canada is the welfare child of the world. Always taking, never giving. So far not even an apology from Trudeau or a mention by Biden.

Canadians are terrible & ungrateful neighbors, it's like living next to the Irish. 

We're getting some of that Canadian smoke down here as well.  Are these fires due to poor forest management, accident or arson?