Hi folks,

  I see you have a lot of heat in  parts of  US. I would be glad if I
  could to send rain. We had  another 6mm at supper  time last night
  and another 1 over  night. The rivers are going down but not
 before  taking roads  out. Water running down ditches eroded the
roads in  places.  Other places it ran over the road and cut a new channel.
  One  place  it does not go under the bridge anymore and a new
bridge  needs to be built.  Can not get to well sites and the new
leases  are  too soft to work at. When  the level drops some more, I
 will have to  get out the gold pans as the high  flow will have
 deposited gold  dust where it slowed.

  Cheers and  have  a good day.

  Dale Davies

  Dale
  Are you in Australia? I googled 'Rain in Australia " after your
  comment and  it seems to be confined to the bottom part of the
  continent. Paul's favorite  places seemed to be dry. I was  there
  last in '91 and it was dry. Peter

  All of Oz is  just great. I highly recommend it.

  Paul Lamar

  Hi  Peter,

  No. I am in west central Alberta, Canada. Whitecourt. 54.10960N
and  115.81553W. Local airport is CYZU. Lots of flooding in west central
  Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Lot of other places like
Pakistan  also  flooded. Chile is buried under 7 - 9 ft of snow.
Other places  in drought  and fires.

  Dale Davies

  --
  Hi Dale

  I am west of Chicago and we have had heat and rain. A record 7" in
2  hours last weekend and 2 more big storms since then. Hope you
keep  pumping oil up  there because our current leadership wants to use
  your oil first.

  Peter Duffecy

  The waste product of Alberta oil sands is nice white clean beach
  sand :) They ought to start selling that too.

  Paul Lamar

In the area shown in the satellite photo, there is the CNRL mine and
upgrader plant. That facility was evacuated for almost a month
earlier due to a forest fire that went through. There was another
large fire farther north on the edge of the Wood Buffalo National
Park. It was 300,000 hectares in size. Fires started before the sap
started running up the trees and the dead grass from last year
coupled with two weeks of strong east winds. The Wood Buffalo fire
was about 100 miles north to south. Winds of up to 60MPH took fire
through the town of Slave Lake and burned out 1/3 of the buildings.
Then after the residents were allowed back into town the rain
started and flooded basements. People were living in other peoples
basements while they try to get their lives back together. We are
supposed to start to get heat which will be almost unbearable as we
will not be used to it and it is forecast to be above normal. What a
year!

Dale Davies

At 4.6 meg the ppt is too big to publish Dale. Try getting some jpgs
out of it and send those.

I have a question. Is there a Slave Lake AND a Great Slave Lake?
I flew the C182 up to Yellowknife over the Great Slave Lake.

Paul Lamar



Hi Paul,

Sorry, I will try to separate some photos. Not to smart on doing that though.

There is Great Slave Lake and Lesser Slave Lake. Great Slave is farther north.
The town of Slave Lake is on the south shore of Lesser Slave.

Dale Davies