August 12, 2011 | Timezone 3 – Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada…
A tall man in his late 40’s wearing a hardhat, a bright orange vest and carrying blueprints and a cellular phone walks slowly into a construction tunnel. There is a flash of light and the man is gone.
In a different part of the city, a young boy awakens from a nightmare screaming “Daddy come back!”
May 3rd, 2016 | Timezone 3 – Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada…
The young boy awoke to his mother telling him they were being evacuated. The boy grabbed his acoustic guitar, computer computer bag with his laptop in it, and some clothes which included his favourite jeans and t-shirts. They were mostly band shirts that he’d collected from concerts and a couple other ones he really liked like the Doctor Who shirt his best friend had gotten for him on his last birthday. After grabbing as much as he could and climbing into their Jeep Liberty, the young boy, his younger sister and their mother headed out of the city and down highway 63 with all the other people evacuating the city. The trip was slow and the traffic was terrible. 90,000 people were evacuated along with them so naturally there was a lot of chaos. They passed sections of forest burning on either side of the highway and could feel the heat on the windows of the jeep as they passed. It was like driving through main street in hell; something out of nightmares that seeps into your soul and marks you forever. 6 hours later they arrived in Smokey Lake to the South. The drive normally took 3 hours…
