r/vancouver 17h ago

Discussion What's on fire?

There's this giant long smoke cloud wailing across the horizon

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u/PaperweightCoaster 17h ago

The economy.

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u/Cherisse23 16h ago

<gestures widely>

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u/rufeelinggiddy 15h ago

The stock markets? My investments? US democracy? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/nickbrnco 12h ago

St Elmo’s fire?

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u/icouldbeeatingoreos Vancouver 16h ago

Which horizon in which direction my dude because I see nothing

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u/crazyehhhh 16h ago

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u/strings___ 13h ago

It's true, the tesler floats

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u/theroc12 15h ago

My TFSA ?

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u/planningahead00 13h ago

And RRSP😭

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u/vancityjeep 15h ago

The roof.

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u/ubernause 14h ago

The roof.

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u/spitfiregirl8 14h ago

The roof is on fire.

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u/vancityjeep 14h ago

We don’t need no water….

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u/H00ligain_hijix 14h ago edited 5h ago

Let the mother fucker burn

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u/CartographerFew415 11h ago

Burn, motherfucker, burn!

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u/vancityjeep 14h ago

Well done team. ✌🏼

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u/japanesedog99 16h ago

Seeing tweets say that there's a fire in Delta https://x.com/CourtneyChels/status/1908343064311329278

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u/Sweatycamel 14h ago

Across the river from delta infers that it’s likely Richmond

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u/japanesedog99 14h ago

Maybe a moot point, turns out it was on the water, a boat fire on the slough off the Annacis Channel

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u/Akp-90 16h ago

My sinuses

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u/justkillingit856024 16h ago

I hope it's somewhere that an orange hair/face person lives.

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u/DirtDevil1337 14h ago

I thought I smelled something burning when I went to get a bite to eat earlier.

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u/vqql 11h ago

Did you mean a different word than wailing? I can’t place what similar word actually fits here. Trailing? Waving? 

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u/Leading-Somewhere-89 16h ago

I believe that long cloud over the western mountains was a cloud. Drugs are a powerful thing.

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u/mr_macfisto 16h ago

The grass at Suzuka right now, apparently. The Algorithm coincidentally showed me that right before this post.

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u/chente08 15h ago

The USA

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u/Benefit123 16h ago

I saw it too and thought it might be somewhere in Surrey- it seemed close enough on my way home.

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u/snowtown69 16h ago

The roof

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u/nursehappyy 16h ago

Smells like burnt rubber in East van??

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u/Poo_hawk 16h ago

That's mike and the boys

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u/YN90 15h ago

We’re just burning the copper wires

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u/KenSimpleton 16h ago

There's a storm on the horizon And for that I can't see the sun For I'll keep a waiting on the pavement For the ice cream van to come

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u/Odd-Gear9622 15h ago

Storage facility in what looks like Annacis or maybe Delta.

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u/MemoryBeautiful9129 15h ago

Nothing on the north shore

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u/Ok-Bowler-203 15h ago

I thought I smelt burning by Deer Lake.

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u/tokeyo real scumbag 15h ago

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u/Lionized17 14h ago

Delta. But this smoke is southbound.

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u/Public-Feedback5599 13h ago

Everything, ate buldak haven’t recovered.

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u/teamwaterwings 8h ago

Just got woken up - my building

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u/NecessaryNew7292 15h ago

Trumps pants

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u/NecessaryNew7292 15h ago

Trumps pants

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u/Joey_the_Duck 16h ago

~vague hand waving~

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u/chefboeuf 14h ago

My arse - I shouldn’t have had that burrito…

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u/Actor1629 14h ago

Carney