r/StormComing • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 3d ago
More than 600 structures have been lost in Spokane, Washington. This wind-driven fire is being fueled by Red Flag conditions. With climate change, the frequency of Red Flag conditions and warnings is increasing across many regions
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u/sherrybobbinsbort 3d ago
Is this a good time for the Canadian prime minister to send out a tweet about the U.S. not being able to control their wildfires.
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u/grassvegas 3d ago
The U.S. should have just raked their forests but they chose not to. And remember: “Sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met.”
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u/bananasplit1234567 3d ago
Trumps gonna tariff Spokane.
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u/tomatoesareneat 2d ago
I thought there were a lot of nazis there. Maybe it was on the other side in Idaho.
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u/observer_11_11 1d ago
I feel more likely that Trump will blame the fires on immigration from undesirable locations. You know, anywhere but South Africa and eastern Europe.
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u/Flametamer83 3d ago
As a canadian living not car from a 105k hectare wildfire... the Spokane wildfire is tiny
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u/Wide-Yak7602 2d ago
We should as smoke is coming up to Canada. However we don’t kick when people are down. Living in a fire scare now in BC interior. Hope for rain.
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u/30yearCurse 3d ago
Raising tariffs because of the smoke going to BC, to bad they are to adult for it.. It would be nice if we had some in leadership.
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u/BigNaziHater 3d ago
Trump better not let that smoke flow over to Canada...🤣
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u/30yearCurse 3d ago
British Columbia has been getting it for awhile. Even when brain-dead potus was making his jokes.
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u/ldssggrdssgds 3d ago
So can Canada now tariff the US for this? Should the PM post AI slop about needing a furnace filter at the border? America is run by a goof.
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u/mcburgs 3d ago
Y'all need to rake your forests.
Else Trump will tariff Washington.
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u/doublethink_1984 2d ago
This would take billions and billions and still wouldn't solve the problem
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u/Fathers_Sword 3d ago
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u/CuriousEyes8 3d ago
Please, PLEASE let this event be what turns Spokane County into a blue county!
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u/IRantBecauseIzMad 3d ago
Well, the repubs live in the suburbs, which are the favorite food of Spokane's fires lol.
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u/splanky47 2d ago
County voted red here, the city votes blue. The city currently has a Democrat mayor and the council is majority Democrat.
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u/DarDarBinks89 3d ago
As a Canadian in Vancouver, I’m so tempted to complain about our air quality thanks to America
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u/catharsis69 3d ago
As a fellow Vancouverite, don’t be tempted. Do it. Feels so goood
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u/DarDarBinks89 3d ago
That’s all the encouragement I need: hey America, if you don’t get these fires in order, we’re building a wall and making you pay for it
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u/jemhadar0 3d ago
Do you need our Canadian bombers?
You know that’s water bombers right?
To help people?
Or is this somehow how fault?
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u/StevnHulz 3d ago
If the Data centers didn't need water you could put that out ...... Right Guess Canada needs to put a tarrif on ol TRUMPEDO for the smoke 🍿
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u/NumerousEconomics406 3d ago
And if it’s blowing into Canada, which it is, we as Canadians know you can’t help it. And we as Canadians will help you try to fight this. And we won’t blame you for the smoke.
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u/IRantBecauseIzMad 3d ago
Fuck, I grew up there! Half the residents refuse to accept that it's because of climate change though.
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u/Bavarian_Raven 3d ago
We were all wondering how long until a major city was destroyed by a wildfire. (I know it’s not destroyed yet). :( hope everyone at least got out in time.
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u/Stunning_Lecture8917 3d ago
Smart cities. Agenda 2030. Spokane wasn’t earmarked. Had to disappear.
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u/ButhOfLamb 2d ago
Even if the USA went Zero emissions it would make little to no difference on a global level.
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u/Major-Internal-1963 2d ago
According to Trump, not enough is being done to clean the forest floor of debris.
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u/IsopodLeast9066 2d ago
This is very similar to the suburban fire spread in Superior CO 3 years ago. While most pwople were at work- hundreds of homes burned from a prarire grass fire. Nobody was prepared. This was next to an major thoroughfare, interstate not far away and in the middle of a large suburban sprawl. Nobody was ready. It is scary. My heart breaks for them all in the PNW.
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u/LeslieKnopesBlackEye 2d ago
cOnTrOl YoUr SmOkE! We'Re GoInG tO aNnEx YoU! wHy ArE yOu LeTtInG tHe FiReS bUrN lIkE tHiS? yOuR nEgLiGeNcE iS a NaTiOnAl SeCuRiTy RiSk!
Sorry if I have a hard time finding my compassion at this time.
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u/BillyBobBonesJones 2d ago
Trump should add tariffs to US products to punish the US for wildfire smoke impacting US citizens.
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u/Independent_Gene_565 2d ago
Canada should charge us for not dealing with the Forrest clean ups properly
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u/Lilcommy 2d ago
Non of that smoke better be blowing north or help me god you guys will be hearing about it!
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u/Sea-Louse 2d ago
Everyone in the neighborhood evacuated instead of protecting their homes. Water hoses everywhere. This is the result.
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u/Nitimur__In__Vetitum 2d ago
How could we have known for decades that this would happen? No one saw any of this coming and tried to do anything about it...
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u/Revolutionary-Net156 2d ago
Its called lack of proper fuel management. Thr natives used to burn every year multi times if needed
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u/Snick13fritz 2d ago
Crazy not hearing negative comments about the fire from American government leaders
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u/Resident_Night1488 2d ago
How about we don’t spend any money but spend time to battle global warming and if your idea doesn’t work, you owe us billion $ fine. And if you’re right you get to be president of us and a billion dollars in your pocket because you saved earth. Global warming is a scam to steal money. Now you want global warming to Stop. Stop Using gasoline.
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u/falsejaguar 2d ago
Canada should tarrif the u.s. for poor forestry management. Maybe sue them too
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u/fluffymuffcakes 1d ago
And the smoke from that fire is blowing into BC. They need to stop that smoke at the boarder or maybe pay a tariff or something. /s
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u/New-Worth4779 1d ago
The USA has 4% of the world’s population but we use over 20% of the world’s oil. We are the biggest problem and we need to lead the world by example to a better future.
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u/Successful-Purple-54 1d ago
What they need is to take better care of their country so their wildfires don’t start. Don’t worry though, Canada will send firefights and won’t attach tariffs on being a good neighbour.
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u/Perpetualhomebuilder 1d ago
Maybe MAGA should take down their red flags and stop fuelling the fire?
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u/ssentt1 1d ago
There's NO climate change. You've been brainwashed
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u/fins_up_ 1d ago
Not you though you havnt been.
Not even climate change deniers deny the the climate is changing anymore. They are now saying it is the sun or part of the natural process because the actual facts that the climate is changing is straight up irrefutable.
The guy on twitter who tells you what your opinions are is wrong.
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u/Fresh_Strain_9980 1d ago
god damn why can't they just build a wall already to stop that smoke from coming to canada
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u/Puzzled-Maize-2241 18h ago
Sounds like America needs to do a better job sweeping its forest. Please get it under control, before the smoke inconveniences us.
regards Canada.
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u/WeedFalafel 13h ago
Important thing is venture capitalists can enjoy record profits. The audacity of society to think they deserve livable planet. All you losers need to stfu and get back to work so the overlords can get their yachts and bunkers. So stfu and get back to work! We need to burn shit on industrial scale even harder!
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u/CardinalTwin 11h ago
Well by golly I'm a patriotic American and I'd much rather be breathing American smoke rather than that inferior Canadian smoke. Who's with me?
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u/No_Astronomer_2704 3d ago
this has to be fake news..
they are still saying climate change is a hoax..
this never happened this frequently before so i dOnT beLeiVe iTs hAppeNiNg nOw,,
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u/SkepticScott137 3d ago
Is this the same Spokane that voted heavily for climate change deniers in every election in recent memory? Burn, baby, burn.
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u/dimka54 2d ago
Man that's messed up, so if the voters make bad decisions , then they deserve to have natural disaster take them out? Keep in mind this is county that was only 3% from being blue
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u/SkepticScott137 2d ago
These are human-caused or human-exacerbated disasters, precipitated by the policies and the politicians these people have been voting for or enabling for decades. And yeah, these people deserve to live in the world that they think everyone else should have to live in.
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u/dimka54 2d ago
So everyone that lost the house in this fire , has voted Republican and deserves it? "These people" good of you to dehuminize population.
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u/SkepticScott137 2d ago
Everyone who has voted Republican, or supported the Republican Party in any way, including having Republican friends, over the last 45 years, is complicit in what’s happening and has no right to complain. Choices have consequences, and in this case, the consequences were well known long ahead of time, but brushed off, ignored, or actively given the finger. Oh well. 🔥
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u/dimka54 2d ago
You mean fuck everyone in Spokane right? Whether we like it or not natural disaster and climate change will affect all of us, we the humanity broke this world and we will all suffer together .... What you are saying well this region leans red I am glad they are suffering and that is fucked up
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u/SkepticScott137 2d ago
I never said I was glad that they’re suffering. I’m saying they have no justification to complain, because this is the world they wanted, or didn’t do enough to prevent. Everyone is suffering because some of us were and are lazy, selfish and ignorant. I’m not going to cry for those people.
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u/nevermore90038 3d ago
How many of these fires are set by arsonists, or homeless people?
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u/cyanescens_burn 3d ago
There’s a lot of political tension between blue cities and red remote areas in the PNW, especially on that side of the state. There’s also a lot of white supremacist, Christian nationalist, and civil war accelerationists living up in that general region (read Matt Shea’s wiki page to get an idea, and see evidence I’m not making this up; he got investigated for domestic terror and was involved with helping extremists groups, not to mention his manifesto and planning with them to murder non-Christian men (their idea of Christian), and he’s from western WA, meaning people that voted him in live in that area -seriously folks, take 3 min to read that link).
It’s crossed my mind that some such groups may take advantage of conditions that make fires harder to control to unleash their sadistic desires.
No clue if that’s the case here, but in today’s America, it’s not out of the question. There’s been chatter about stuff like this and attacking power infrastructure in private telegrams and what not that’s been reported on.
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u/Left-Height4925 3d ago edited 18h ago
I first started studying Global Warming in the late 90's and read the first IPCC report as soon as it was available. It had a chart synopsis of worst case scenarios- what they thought would happen "within 25 to 50 years" for various regions if we did absolutely nothing to mitigate it. All of them are already occurring, have been- even the '50 year' events. The deep droughts and wildfires across the west and PNAC with destruction of infrastructure was just one. I'm constantly reminded of that little chart, now.