People who are planning to stay at their current address should look into house battery back up and generator combos. Connect the generator to your home's natural gas line.

Generac has options for this and are made in the USA.

Cummins generators are also manufactured in the United States.

It'd be cool if that would come just a bit further west. Still unseasonably hot and dry in the inland northwest. Lots of small fires already going.

Last week a small town was consumed in a forest fire. The media reported the temperature at a record 49 degrees Celsius, which is unheard of in Canada.

The thing is, small towns burn every year in Canada because you are supposed to cut away the forest around the town. People have forgotten they have to do that. Forest fire is a real and ever present danger, every summer. There is nothing new about that. It's exactly the same in every other forested place in the world.

The other thing is if you check the satellite, the highest temp was about 44C, which does happen in summer here sometimes, and that too is completely normal.

There's a desert in Manitoba:

https://guide2travel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/carberry-sandhills-1.jpg

A nice cold snap that kills off all the mosquitoes would be welcomed.

ANYTHING ABOVE 40 DEGREES (F) IS TOO HOT.