Are you trying to depress everyone? We had one of the warmest Julys ever. We needed rain and we are now getting a bit. B.C. forests certainly welcome the rain because of the record number of forest fires this year.
Entering the Greatest Depression in History
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Are you trying to depress everyone? We had one of the warmest Julys ever. We needed rain and we are now getting a bit. B.C. forests certainly welcome the rain because of the record number of forest fires this year.
Right on, Juan. I know I, for one, kinda get tired of fighting wildfires from sunup to sundown (and then sometimes longer) for two weeks straight at a time. It isn't bad here in the Kootenays, but the Okanagan is like an unlit match where there isn't a fire already. Same for Fraser Canyon, Nicola Valley, and a few other spots. It could pour for a week to do a decent job. Any water that you spill from your bottle onto bare ground balls up and rolls around like mercury on a tabletop. It won't soak in till it finds a pine needle or something.
Once upon a time when irrigated fruit trees filled the valley instead of 5000sq ft homes there was no way in hell a fire could threaten Kelowna
There are not enough fruit trees left in the Valley to provide fruit - no need to worry about watering them (I know that's what you meant anyway). Housing costs there are not going down (that was the original thought in this thread I believe)and if anything - like where I live, prices are staying much the same as they were and selling above (in numbers of houses) last year. From the report in our local paper - sales are up over last year oddly enough. I hear customers talking and they say that lots of people from Calgary are moving here. It's good. Should mean we will sell easy enough I hope. We thought at one point that we would find a good deal out there but I don't think there are many if any, to be found. The market has dropped very little here.
To the person who says that the fine print from the bank states they can call in your mtg. anytime, that would be true. However - how does that benefit them or anyone. They don't want to call it. They want you to pay it and they want you to take a long time to do it so they earn lots of money from you. Nothing like being a bank owning a bunch of empty houses to get rid of. If they start calling in mtgs. then people will just walk away.
That's for sure. But, except for a few outlying areas such as Joe Rich, Okanagan Mission, Glenmore, etc, Kelowna itself is ok. There's no threat to Kelowna itself from the Terrace Mt. fire. The vineyards would be a good firebreak, too, as would the ginseng yards.
Not much fire potential here at all this summer and it is a bit depressing, a lesser man would have to wear a jacket today, and heavy socks, I can't find them.
Couldn't tell that by BC. It must be them damn easterners who are dragging us down, eh!?
Nothing to do with winter down there, though. It is a conspiracy perpetrated by Suzuki and Gore, I tells ya.8O
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lmao Over there, they get winter during the months of June, July, and August. It has to do with the tilt of the Earth and the angle of light from the sun that gets to them.
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Don't sit arround waiting for the economy to improve, many of us will be supporting a flower bed before that happens.
Don't sit arround waiting for the economy to improve, many of us will be supporting a flower bed before that happens.
A wee bit of a hiccup this mornin', there beave? I'm hoping you are right but we'll see.
Worst depression?
I think GDP has contracted 4% in America. We would have to contract another 22% to get to the levels of the Great Depression.
That ain't happening.
I think GDP has contracted 4% in America. We would have to contract another 22% to get to the levels of the Great Depression.
That ain't happening.