Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 25 No. 34 Aug. 22, 2014
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n Blake Thomson and James McKee take part in the We Got Harps, We Ain’t No Angels workshop on the CBC Blues Stage at the 22nd annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival held over the weekend at the fairgrounds.
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Noisy storm spares area from fires Aftermath: No substantial blazes sparked by lightning strikes in the Shuswap. By Martha Wickett
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The heavens exploded with shuddering booms, bangs and flashes, but inflicted little damage on the ground below. A thunderstorm overnight Tuesday that rattled Salmon Arm and beyond started no fires in the immediate vicinity and only a couple of small ones in the Mabel Lake area east of Enderby. “We got lucky,” said Larry Osachoff, fire protection officer. “Yes, it was an intense lightning storm, but it was carrying a lot of moisture
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cant fire event, but because of the rain, that was our saviour.” Salmon Arm Fire Chief Brad Shirley said although firefighters were expecting to receive many calls related to the lightning storm, they received only one about a commercial false alarm. Wednesday morning firefighters were called out to a fire on Foothill Road, but it turned out to be someone using a burning barrel. Staff Sgt. Kevin Keane of Salmon Arm RCMP reported a similarly uneventful night. Police received several reports of alarms going off, but all were triggered by a storm-
related power outage. BC Hydro reports one larger outage sparked by the storm affected 2,021 Hydro customers west of Old Sicamous Road – which joins Grandview Bench Road – into Salmon Arm. The lights went out about 11 p.m. and were restored just before 1 a.m. A couple of other two-hour outages early Wednesday morning affected about five homes each in the 2500 block of 70th Street SE as well as the 200 block of Black Road. See One power on page 2
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and with that amount of moisture it reduced fire risk considerably.” He said the storm started just east of Lillooet and tracked in an easterly direction towards the Shuswap and then down through Castlegar. The lightning tracking system showed an estimated 40,000 strikes throughout B.C. and into Alberta over the 24 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday morning, but the number of strikes specific to the Shuswap isn’t known. “Lightning strikes were very close, hitting right around Salmon Arm,” Osachoff said. “If it wasn’t for the rain, this would be a signifi-
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