Reply To: Is there more to the ‘smoke’ from the Canadian wildfires drifting here?
The smoke has been terrible this week. I reckon visibility has been reduced to about a quarter of a mile. Like a fog.
I spoke to an older guy and he mentioned he thought it was nothing but a fog,… in the middle of a hot afternoon, with no real clouds. Go figure, there’s no waking some people up, I guess.
The last few days, others have said how it makes their eyes water & gives them headaches. I haven’t been bothered by it too much, until today. The weather babe said a storm front moving in would blow the smoke away, and, it did, for about two whole hours.
Afterwards, it got stinking hot & way more humid.
That humidity, & the heat, That finally made the smoke affect me. The whole run down: watery eyes, coughing, tired. ….Like being downwind from L.A. in the 80’s, times four.
I can’t even imagine what it must be like for those more in the thick of the smoke.
And as Summer rolls on, & humidity kicks up,… whoa!
I’ve been to plenty of bonfires & campfires & in the wrong spot downwind,… there’s no getting out of the wrong spot.
I never thought about preparing for wildfires (there’s zero FedGov forrest in Iowa to mismanage) or nuke fallout,… lately, I’ve begun to think of bugging out of here, or putting on a full on NBC mask, complete with oxygen tank.
Doug, South of me, describes it pretty well in this bit – and – he reminds me of Eric when he talks about taxes:
‘How Government takes your HOUSE and PROPERTY! HAPPENING NOW!!’