Turns out the power was shut off due to a fire at the Councils hazardous waste storage shed, it was almost burnt to the ground. The shed was located behind the Council garage.
There was still smoke hanging around this morning, this was puzzling some people. Turned out this smoke was from a fire over the hill just south west of what is known as ‘blow hole’. A plane did a re con earlier and reported it as just smoldering.
Seems it is now more than smoldering as it is reported that a water bomber is on the way from GB.
The yatch is from Montreal, going to who knows where.
Update: The fire is out, the water bomber and a chopper fought the blaze/smoulder. Some photos of the bomber in action later.
The mv Astron is still at Natuashish with a broken crane or hydraulics or something, whatever it is it can’t unload or even open the hatch.
Looking like a repeat of a couple years ago when things went wrong with the Ranger and the freight vessel every other week. Not very good for us on the coast who rely on this service for all our basics.
3 comments:
Great excitement in Nain. Glad all the fires are out, you don't need any forst fires right now. Did the perishables arrive yet?
Sure don’t need any forest fires, amazingly this short burst of sunshine and heat has ‘lushed’ out the bush very well, would be scary if a fire managed to get close to the community.
And no, we have no spuds in town, not to mention the 100’s of other items, only the ones flown in, all the cheaper freight is not getting in due to ‘mechanical problems’ on the two boats servicing the north coast.
....Still more boat problems? Man, this is ridiculous. Do they do any form of maintenance? Sounds like the time to come home and hatch my evil plan for a Coastal based distribution system.
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