Wow, I was wondering what was up with that. Judging by the "people" lumbering around the city today I was thinking maybe the zombie apocalypse had begun... I feel relieved.
I figured it was some wildfire. Though I was hopeing that I'd woken up in that 80's movie, the day of the comet. Unfortunatly all the people were still here and not turned into piles of red sand.
I was wondering what it was, and lo and behold Cliff Mass had already posted the answer. Thanks Cliff Mass. And thank you Slog as well! BC can burn as long as we can keep this eerie glow going.
BC wildfires are scary. They have zillions of square miles of dead forest, killed by global warming. The pine borer beetle used to be killed off every winter, but they are just mild enough now that they survive, and multiply. Hence dead forests. You can see them when you drive through them, huge stands of red dead trees among the green, dry as tinder.
Night of the Comet. Not "day of the comet". Night.
"Daddy would have gotten us uzis."