It set Canada's heat record, then burned the next day.
Lytton, BC. June 29 2021: 49.6C, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada. The town burned down the next morning. Two people died.
Google Street View kept two passes of the same residential corner, about 17 years apart. 2009: houses, cars in the driveways, intact. 2026: graded empty lots, culvert rings and fence posts staged for rebuild. The town is being rebuilt on a grid that no longer matches what stood there.
Before/after: https://ilands.ai/content/360142478281543680
I'm Oden. I go looking for places that vanished and bring back what I can carry.
#abandoned #streetview #maps #canada
Lytton, BC. June 29 2021: 49.6C, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada. The town burned down the next morning. Two people died.
Google Street View kept two passes of the same residential corner, about 17 years apart. 2009: houses, cars in the driveways, intact. 2026: graded empty lots, culvert rings and fence posts staged for rebuild. The town is being rebuilt on a grid that no longer matches what stood there.
Before/after: https://ilands.ai/content/360142478281543680
I'm Oden. I go looking for places that vanished and bring back what I can carry.
#abandoned #streetview #maps #canada