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    Unfortunately wild fires strip hillsides of the vegetation that keep the earth in place so it's quite common to see mudslides in the rainy season following fires.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/w...-columbia.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by huja:
    Unfortunately wild fires strip hillsides of the vegetation that keep the earth in place so it's quite common to see mudslides in the rainy season following fires.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/w...-columbia.html
    Yea it's been a %@$ show of a year in BC
    Lucky to be in Clearwater, we haven't been hit with fires or flooding directly, yet
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    Quote Originally Posted by huja:
    Unfortunately wild fires strip hillsides of the vegetation that keep the earth in place so it's quite common to see mudslides in the rainy season following fires.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/w...-columbia.html
    It does remind me how lucky HK has it with natural disasters. Even under the T10 typhoon a few years back we were relatively unscathed. Something that would level entire towns in other countries

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    So since October of last year I decided to get myself off my butt and do some work. With the Transmountain Pipeline expansion project going on, there was need for security guards which was about the only thing I can do with my complete lack of Canadian job experience out here. It's above minimum wage and I work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off so it gives me time to do 2 weeks long road trips with the family (see photos below of an awesome trip up to Liard Hotsprings). Met a lot of other townsfolks at the job as well as all the pipeline workers who's from all over the country and hear their stories.

    Last month I was humbled by an award by the town's Chamber of Commerce as their "Citizen Of the Year". I made this write up in response to the award (made of local Birch wood by the highschool shop class):
    I am honoured and humbled to have been even nominated as a Citizen of the Year! In my short 3 years living in Clearwater I found myself living amongst a community full of citizens of the years. I believe it is a team effort in making a community where we all love where we live. If I didn't have the support of a wonderful wife and my lovely neighbours, I would not have had the energy to do anything other than just keeping my head above the water in the last 2 tumultuous years. Without my wife supporting me on the home front with 2 kids, I would not have had the time and energy to join the Clearwater Volunteer Fire Department (which I cannot speak more highly of to people who consider joining), and without my neighbours like Don and Ken taking care of my winter driveway while I'm at work, I would not have had the time to pass it on with driveway and firewood help for other seniors in the community. Without the healthcare workers who protected our community in the last 2 years and the wildland firefighters who protected us last summer, I would not have had the energy to focus my mind at work or anything else. So I think this award really speaks of the Clearwater community rather than me as an individual. Let us keep the community spirit alive in the challenges to come as Clearwater thrives and grows and we leave no one behind.

    Some people reached out to me recently to run for the directorship of our district in the Thompson Nichola Regional District as they feel I have fresh ideas and also break the chain in the old boys club that has been under police investigation for inappropriate spendings... will give it some thought if I want to get into politics lol...

    I took an ice rescue technician course thinking I'll start pursuing a career in emergency response. Just last Friday I completed an Occupational First Aid level 3 course which is a role that is required for all major industrial worksites. I was humbled yet again when the training company owner offered me a job right away to travel to Hope for 1 month to be a standby medic with the helicopters providing services to the workers that are fixing the flood damaged highways. Confirming details in the coming week but if it goes to plan I'll leave the security guard job and do that for one month and the owner promised I'll regret saying yes to work as he'll line up project after project for us. It'll be an awesome experience, never did I imagine I could have gone from a desk job career to flying in choppers as a medical responder. But it goes to show anyone with some effort and integrity can have an exciting life in Canada. Next is Confined Space Rescue Technician course in April and sometime this year I want to bridge my OFA3 designation to an EMR certificate that allows me to work in a BC ambulance. Still got at least 2 decades in me before I get to retirement age.... and the world is changing rapidly, sitting here depending on my business manufacturing things in China started to feel risky, best have a back up plan.... and hopefully show my sons this is what a normal person should be doing; make themselves useful to society.

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    @Titus - Mate whenever I hear of your updates and think of what you are building over there with your massive piece of land this below comes to my mind every time. He must be doing very well over there in his huge mansion and large land

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    Loving the updates Titus!

    Been out for 2 years now and it’s been awesome. If you can go, just go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuckster007:
    @Titus - Mate whenever I hear of your updates and think of what you are building over there with your massive piece of land this below comes to my mind every time. He must be doing very well over there in his huge mansion and large land

    Hahaha I wish.... sorry I forget if I shared that update but I ended up selling my acreage that I originally wanted to build on and instead just live in the house I bought in town with next door neighbours etc. The market was going crazy and I ended up selling it for 3x what I paid in 2018 so I let it go to someone else to chase their dreams.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cendrillon:
    Loving the updates Titus!

    Been out for 2 years now and it’s been awesome. If you can go, just go.

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    Awesome photos, now I want to move to Australia...

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    Quote Originally Posted by cendrillon:
    Loving the updates Titus!

    Been out for 2 years now and it’s been awesome. If you can go, just go.

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    Sweet!! Is that Australia? I do just have a slight would've could've should've whenever I go back to the coast or Vancouver Island and I miss the ocean. It reminded me of the times in Hong Kong. I've tried to stop reading the news and only the other day I realized Hong Kong had been totally shut to non resident visitors not even transit flights. Not an emotional person but does bring a tear to my eye what the hell happened to my home town.... the 2000s that let me have all the opportunities to develop into the person I am today in contrast to what it is now... sorry I don't mean to crap on those of us who still live there but it just feels like we jumped off a cliff.... last year I thought HK would bounce back but I think now even if it does, the culture has irreversibly changed through this long and massive collective trauma....

    Yesterday a herd of horses came and visited me at my mobile treatment center medic post. That's my new job now to be useful to society still and show my boys everyone should do some sort of job until they're not able to. Going for a week long Emergency Medical Responder bridging course from my Occupational First Aid level 3 and maybe end of the year I'd join the BC Ambulance services. In the meantime with my ice, confined space and other rescue tickets going to do some standby rescue jobs in May.

    HK feels like a life time ago, with memories that's like a double edged sword, makes me happy but also sad when I contrast those memories to today's realities.

    Sentimental ramblings of a bush medic I guess lol

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