Good afternoon everyone

Have a wonderful day!

A little cooler today, not noon yet and it's only 37c, so lots better than yesterday.

Still too hot to do anything but sit and sweat!

Still horribly hot today.

One street up the hill from us a propane tank in an RV exploded from the heat, then there were three more explosions, and then the house was engulfed. I ran out because I thought it might be our friend across the road, but it was the house behind him. The fire department has been on site for over an hour; the house is completely gone and the one next door is now engulfed. Scary. Our house is in no danger, but I guess the word needs to get out that propane tanks will explode in extreme heat. There are lots of RV's in this neighbourhood, and barbeques on balconies.

Oh, my... that sounds horrible.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and there were no pets involved. The very old fellow that lived in the second house made it slowly down to my friend's upper garden wall and they lifted him over and down into their garden. Poor old guy had to watch his house burn down. But the heat in the immediate vicinity went up about 5 degrees. This does not bode well for fire season, which is just around the corner.

Not good!

same thing.

Wow hagatha! How extremely scary! I'm glad you are safe and will pray and send positive thoughts to those affected.

That's really scary hagatha, a lot of people in our street have RV"s, something else to worry about!!!!!

I see on the local news 124 people have died due to heat-related causes, and that was only in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey, and it has been even hotter out our way in the Fraser Valley, so am not sure what the total death numbers will be, so sad.

The ground will be so dry, you are right this does not bode well for the fire season.

Wow, hagatha, that's scary indeed, I wonder if the RV tank had an issue ... I hope the fire department can find the problem

My brain (and project at work) woke me early this morning so will start the day early too

Starbuck's Sumatra dark roast, Scottish breakfast tea and Fiji water in the Break Room.

It's MIke's Day ... wishing you the best.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Hagatha,prayers on he way.

Good morning, still 99F again today. In the last couple of days I have never drank so much ice tea in my life.

I lived my first 37 years on the second floor of a house with no air conditioning and Ice Tea was the only thing that helped me! Now I have air conditioning but sometimes it doesn't kick in when I think it should and I reach for the ice tea. When I'm cool though, I hardly ever drink it.

What a truly horrible experience for you all, hagatha. Especially for that poor man whose house was destroyed

So glad to hear, though, that no one was hurt

Thanks, everyone. You read about house fires, but it doesn't really sink in until you actually see two of them go up in flames in a matter of minutes. We are only about half a mile away from the edge of wilderness here, and a forest fire could take out our whole neighbourhood by hopping from house to house.

Latest count is over 450 sudden heat-related deaths from heat across BC. Fortunately, it's finally cooled down here as we had a very odd warm wind coming from the north. It did nothing for our house, since our windows face the wrong way, but it's gradually cooled down the air and we can breathe again.

We had a visit from the physiotherapist and the Home Care nurse today, and both of them seem to think John will be able to get up and about again, and not be reliant on a walker. We'll start the exercises tomorrow.

same thing.

I hope it goes well hagatha!

Good news, hagatha. Hopefully, they can do some good for him.

I'll be making sure he does his exercises. Craft beer from our local brew pub will feature prominently as an evening bribe.

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. Hagatha, that's wonderful news.

same thing, yesterday, we had a severe thunderstorm and warning.

Working on rebuilding a small natural stone wall, but I think it's going to be too rainy today to work in the mud! So, I've got time for a bagel!

Now this made me smile.

Very hot here still, and I am really getting sick of it. It leaves me with no motivation or energy to do anything.

Otherwise, have a good day everyone!

Yep. Sounds like a very enjoyable "bribe" to me

[And I hope the heat starts to dissipate very soon for you, Marian .... and everyone else who's affected, of course !!]

Finally we're back to our normal windy and cool weather.

Sadly, Lytton, the little town that had those record breaking high temperatures of 46-49 degrees this week, has been utterly destroyed in a forest fire.