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  Dale,
                     What is the rectangular patches shown in the sat
pictures? are the patches farming paddocks or where the mining companys
have been clearing strips? There seems to be a big patch of oil sands=-O
, is this the oil sands that they have to use steam to boil the oil out
of the sand?
                 I am in OZ., we had some flooding here this year and
last year, supposed to be "climate change", not "global warming"
anymore, funny that when one looks at the weather records about 50-60
years, and 100-120 years ago the same thing happened, but now people
live in the rivers and creeks and think they can control nature. Our
smart government has announced that they are going to have "Carbon
Cops", with $1,000,000 fines and 10 years in prison if you burn
carbon:'( , or somesuch thing, nobody has told them that every living
thing is made up of carbon:-D .   Sorry for the rant.
               John Burey.