The smoke around portland is crazy. I have never seen it like this. Ended up leaving town last night and driving north of Seattle. The smoke is bad even up here but not anything like portland area.
Yeah, it’s bad news when you can stare directly at the sun with no ill effects
The Bay Area smoke was kinda fun for the past few days, it gave us a break from a hellacious heatwave and unlike the smoke from a few weeks ago it was high enough in the atmosphere that it wasn’t shitty to breathe. Now it seems to have dropped down and the AQI is awful again, so I’m going to spend the weekend with my windows closed and the A/C running when it’s 70 degrees (21* C) out, yay.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
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Seattle headed toward “very unhealthy” AQI this afternoon even though there aren’t really any fires nearby. I guess it’s all the smoke from the OR and CA fires that was blown out over the ocean flowing back on shore to the northwest.
Currently “chilling” in my almost 80 degree house with the windows closed. I know I have it way better than many but I’m whining anyway.
You kids are too young to have experienced some classic, 1960’s 'merican #1 air pollution.
The air sucks in the San Gabriel Valley.
People I know in Portland say it is truly awful there right now.
Well there’s so much smoke from all the small businesses being burned down by the radical left.
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https://twitter.com/r3volutiondaddy/status/1304147303066869762?s=21
Not sure if this belongs in the wildfire thread, the Q thread, or the Trump thread, but fascists in Oregon are setting up checkpoints among the fire evacuations.
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I was once a toddler living in Sweet Home
This is insane. Right wing militias are stopping people at gunpoint on evacuation routes from wildfires for being non-white.
We are a failed state.
There are a lot of weird, racist folk in Oregon when you venture out of the Willamette Valley, unfortunately.
Portland air is disgusting yet again today. There’s a fire creeping up to the southeast of the city; I know a family who had to evacuate out of Oregon City. It will be interesting what happens if it makes it to the Lake Oswego area, that’s probably the richest section of Oregon, manshun after manshun. My parents live about 75 miles south and they spent the other day helping a friend evacuate her sheep from her farm, some different fire down there was creeping in. The whole surreal, alien-looking fire haze piss-air look here seems perfect for 2020. If Mt St Helens blew up again this week I’d just nod and adjust.
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I saw Medford on the news a couple of days ago and suddenly remembered I have a relative who lives in that area.
It turns out he lived in Talent (about 10 miles from Medford) and I use the past tense because the entire town was pretty much obliterated.
I feel guilty that I care more about this story now but I guess that’s just human nature. The personal connection just forces you to empathize deeply rather than maintain some sort of detached objectivity.
I can’t even fathom living in a small town of 6000 or whatever and just having the whole thing destroyed instantly by a natural disaster.
He’s fine, was evacuated and is now staying with friends, even went to work yesterday and today. But I’m sure he’s in some kind of shock and will be feeling very surreal for quite a while.
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Yeah, I think Portland has it pretty bad.
I just read that Seattle’s AQI is now over 300, which puts it into the “hazardous” category. Unfortunately there’s nothing people can do but wait it out.
Yeah, we have been monitoring the Oregon situation pretty closely, as the cost of housing there is basically a bargain compared with the Bay, and tons of houses for sale look like they have falling prices, which could be an awesome opportunity to buy. Not sure if touring a bunch of places when they’re under an evacuation watch is going to be workable, though.
We were at 350 in Sac three days ago. 275 today
I’ve never seen Seattle as bad as it is right now. It literally looks like a super foggy winter morning out on the Puget Sound.