Burns bog!

[katM]

the bog is actually pretty cool tho, ive been there, but u know wut is interestingis that like every 10 years there has to be a fire so it doesnt grow too big or some shit like that.
my grama told me that, she lives near the bog. :284:

[bebu*funfun]

there was a fire because some guys snuck in during the middle of the night thought it was a good idea to light up a cigarette... and dropped the butt and left.. they saw a fire and put it out..but didn't know peat can burn underground, which caused a big bog fire. :finger: damn ya smokers! can't you jsut hold on til you were OUT OF THE BOG?!

[speeDemon]

Originally posted by Sean!
hey aren't you a flip? maybe you should go eat some raw duck eggs or something..quit complaining or you can take you're ass back to cebu

haha ... im flip.. but i ain't a fob.

[katM]

Originally posted by BeBu*FunFun
there was a fire because some guys snuck in during the middle of the night thought it was a good idea to light up a cigarette... and dropped the butt and left.. they saw a fire and put it out..but didn't know peat can burn underground, which caused a big bog fire. :finger: damn ya smokers! can't you jsut hold on til you were OUT OF THE BOG?!

ya but it had to happen eventually tho, like my grama said man :284:

why damn those smokers? :smoke1:

[bebu*funfun]

before it was 12 times the size of stanley park now i think it has reduced to 7 times....cuz of new commercial and industrial stuff built around the edges... on land that can actually be developed. it costs A LOT to get rid of that bog.. because of the complex procedures.. its been here on earth for 15,000 years...just let it stay...even as a historical nature bog or some crap like that!

[bebu*funfun]

wow... i did learn in my geography class.. look at all those factual info that i remembered on top of my head. GO ME! i *heart* the bog

[c.tard]

^^ haha isn't it funny sometimes how much you did learn, even when you think you didn't? lol :P
I've done that a few times too! haha..

The bog does look really nice though, love the picture.
I've never been there.. Was supposed to go on a field trip there, but it was during the teacher strike so we never got to go..

[M!SKA]

Bev, you should join the Burns Bog Conservation Society.
They're always looking for help and volunteers.

LOL THE TRACTOR I remember that... too fuckin funny.

I also remember watching when the Bog was on fire.. that was scary. The flames were right at the highway (that goes THROUGH the Bog...)

If you notice the dead trees around the Alex Fraser Bridge.. they're dead because the weight of the highway and the bridge caused those areas to flood.. bog, water, trees, FREEWAY = flooding :(

[katM]

yah i was pretty close too when that fire happened, then like a little while later that summer sum dumas kids in delta burned down sum skool :finger:

[M!SKA]

^^ It was a french emersion elemntary school in Surrey, I think. And one of the guys that was involved went to my highschool.. He's a really talented guitar player. That's about all I know of him.

[c.tard]

Originally posted by M!SKA
^^ It was a french emersion elemntary school in Surrey, I think. And one of the guys that was involved went to my highschool.. He's a really talented guitar player. That's about all I know of him.

Ah yes, the elementary school. Halloween night a few years back?? That was William F. Davidson. I was there while it was burning. My high school is RIGHT next to it.. Only a parking lot between us. It's also like a 10 10 minute walk from my house. So close.

It's now a bunch of portables, converted to a french school. L'ecole Gabrielle Roy.. And W.F.D is on the other side of our school :P

[M!SKA]

Yeah, L'ecole Gabrielle Roy.. that sounds like the right one.

[MissBehavior]

I arranged a frield trip to the Bog in grade 12. Heh...It was funny to see the "cool kids" fall into sink-holes, and not so cool to fall into one myself. :hehe:

Good thing I wore my army pants and Doc boots that day. I was muddy up to my knees.