Well... I woke up to a great sound...Traffic driving on wet pavement! RAIN!!!!!!!! Excellent...but when I look out my window I don't see rain drops splashing in the puddles, so don't know if that means the end of the rain or not. Some of the heaviest smoke has dispersed that was hanging right on us, but its still really heavy and thick -Last nite I was told the closest fire to us was starting to crest the mountain about 5 miles (by our watershed)from us... hence the massive mushroom cloud 2 days ago, and the heavy smoke and ash/soot yesterday. Don't know the facts. We now have a fire hotline but there has been no talk about "get out of Dodge' so far. Just "be prepared... just in case"

Maybe the Bombardier Water Bombers brought some of your rain to us? (THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TO HELP) They actually may be over at Cranbrook where fire is worse and more threatening. Or else they're sure dumped a big load of water I should have known the rain was coming... my rheumatoid arthritis really flared yesterday and gave me a hard time... just wish it would downpour constantly for a week, wherever thats needed, here, there. I read that Manitoba is "worried" because of potential fire because of how dry everything is...its been an extremely dry year all round, after a winter of not enough snow all round.

Regards the asthma and masks... my doc gave me some refills for my little puffer in case I run out. The phramacist filled a LOT of prescriptions for respiratory things yesterday. Am actually not bad so far... don't have a severe problem with asthma like others in my family... and others where fires are happening close by.

The firefighters must be a sight, covered in wet ash! And looking out the door again... it looks like thats it for the rain

All everyone can do is watch and wait...and be ready to do whatever needs to be done, to be disrupted. Or not. The potential is certainly 5 miles away and moving closer.

Amazing...Nature!