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Im Sophie, Im 25 and I run a mess of a blog. I use self deprecating humour to cope with deeper issues and music is my #1 love. Feel free to talk to me, but if I read the words sugarbaby/daddy, I'm blocking you

Last night I had a dream I woke up to find that my house had been turned into a Smart House with every wall being a digital screen including the roof so I could see it even laying on bed and the Siri voice said “Don’t worry. You are perfectly safe in your Apple Smart Home™️” knowing I have a BIG phobia of intruders especially at night and it continued with “Let’s explore the neighborhood from the comfort of your home” so it opened google maps and accidentally zoomed past a shitty jpeg of the girl from The Ring standing outside my house and it said “ignore that”. woke up laughing

This is your annual warning that *there will be no warning* when fire season is about to start. Nobody’s going to post “Hey everyone, remember, fire season starts next Friday!”. The state will just catch fire. You will wake up and the sky will be orange. It could be tomorrow, it could be July, it could be August, we could get incredibly lucky and skip it altogether. If you hope to buy an indoor air purifier before fire season, if you want to ensure everyone in your home has a P100 for going outside, if you want to stockpile water and you haven’t already, the time to do it is today.

Oh right this is getting notes again. Fuck.

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this post is why i got a p100 last year

Yearly reminder to check your go-bags and evacuation plans

When I was fourteen I got ten minutes notice of evacuation from the McLure fire in B.C.

Literally got told “you have ten minutes. Fill your laundry basket with anything you want to take with you. We might not be coming back.”

You want to be prepared BEFORE that point.

Of all the fucking notifications to get. Tantallon is on fire. Next town over from me. 800+ Hectares. There’s another 1000 or so burning down by Barrington and a smaller fire in Bedford.

That first and that last are suburbs of Halifax. So if you was thinking it can’t happen to you, it damn well fucking can.

Oh. Yeah. The Tantallon Fire started on Sunday. It hit 100 Hectares and destroyed 10 homes within 12 hours. Within 24 hours it was 780 Hectares. It’s now over 800 with 200 structures destroyed.

YOU WILL NOT HAVE TIME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

So. Go Bag. Important documents. Couple changes clothes. Any medication. Any stuff you need for your pets. Keepsakes.

Keep it somewhere accessible.

Get it in the car first. Then if you have time you can add to it. I have a few bags prepped. They’ll go in the car in order of importance as circumstances permit.