Steven Lloyd's Journal, 07 May 2016

Warning...this post is taking a break from my diet and normal weight loss journalling to update and let my FS buddies and others here on the site know of a current bad situation affecting some family members, close friends and neighbors. 

Some of you may already know this but for those that don't;  I live in a nice country called Canada, in a province (think state) called Alberta...where agriculture and oil production are the prime drivers of our economy...right now we have been hard hit economically as the world wide low oil prices have severely "downsized" every business directly and indirectly affected by the current economic conditions.  This has hit all of us in the Province, some more than others, Fort McMurray, a city in the North of our province has been particularly hard hit.

Now the really bad news...just recently a small brush fire started near Fort McMurray, one of our largest northern cities...these things happen through human negligence and also natural causes.  The wind picked up and shifted, pushing the fire towards the city and expanding the small brush fire into an uncontrolled, rapidly moving forest fire.  Residents were forced to evacuate with very little notice, piling whatever they could into vehicles and heading out of the city on the only hiway heading south (before it branched into two hiways miles to the south).

Right now between 85,000 and 90,000 people have been evacuated and currently the town has been very hard hit with the fires still raging out of control...the wind and the very dry forests have combined for blast furnace effect...Chad Morrison, Alberta Wildfire Official is predicting that the Ft Mac fire is expected to double in size by late tonight.  My son in law, part of a skeleton crew at a work site to the North of Ft Mac was evacuated by air late last night.

Other fires have also started, prompting recent evacuation orders near Ft. St. John, British Columbia, Northeast of where my Fat Secret buddy, Northernmusicion lives.

Just needed to share this news, if you are so inclined, please pray for the people affected and for safety for the firefighters...if not so inclined, then please hold these people in your thoughts...

We all have burdens to bear, some more than others, take care all....Steven

UPDATE; please see the link below to a short clip by Rex Murphythat gives a sense of what is going on.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/rex-murphy-fort-mcmurray-wildfire-1.3569425

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1960 kcal

Fat: 65.27g | Prot: 138.94g | Carb: 207.76g.   Breakfast: Dry Roasted Almonds (with Salt Added), Rotisserie Chicken, Allmax Nutrition Whey Protein Shake. Lunch: Tomatoes, Deli Turkey or Chicken Breast Meat, Onions, Mustard, Kraft Miracle Whip Dressing, Sam's Club French Bread. Dinner: Skinny Cow Low Fat Ice Cream Sandwiches - Vanilla, Trader Joe's Artisan Breads Ciabatta Rolls, Ketchup, Bull's Eye Sweet & Tangy BBQ Sauce, Tomatoes, Kraft 3 Cheese Mexicana Shredded Cheese, Onions, Lee Kum Kee Sriracha Chili Sauce, Mustard, Kraft Miracle Whip Dressing, Chicken Thigh (Skin Not Eaten). Snacks/Other: Grapes (Red or Green, European Type Varieties Such As Thompson Seedless), Trader Joe's 70% Dark Chocolate Wedges, Hershey's Milk Chocolate. more...

2682 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Do It Yourself (DIY) - 1 hour and 30 minutes, TRX - 10 minutes, Resting - 14 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...