western wildfires

[llashram]

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Source: usa today

smoke pollution cloud size of these fires
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/smoke-from-western-wildfires-reaches-east-coast-economic-losses-could-reach-150-billion/ar-BB1949DU?ocid=msedgdhp

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truly monumental

[SergeStorms]

1. I'm a star gazer...

and an insomniac, so I go outside (I live in western New York) in the wee hours of the morning to look at the stars, constellations etc. The stars have been seriously dim the past few nights. At first I chalked it up to heat inversions, as it's been very cool after sundown. Then I realized it's smoke pollution from the western states' wildfires.




You can't see the smoke reaching western New York in this photo, but it is reaching us. Unbelievable.

[CTyankee]

4. Just remember to rake the forest floor...that'll take care of it...

[SergeStorms]

5. When I was a little boy...

(this story was related to me by my Mom, by the way) I used to say "rape" instead of "rake". I guess I was around three or so, and I probably had trouble with the "k" sound. I'd want to go outside and help my Dad "rape the lawn".

I don't say it anymore though.

[cilla4progress]

2. I'm living it - in the thick of it

eastern Washington.

We thankfully got rain during the night! Tamped it down for awhile. Moving back in slowly. Not as thick.

[SergeStorms]

6. I can't imagine living through that.

I've seen pictures and video, and I think I'd be out of the area in a heartbeat. I might think differently if everything I owned was at risk though. Stay safe, OK?

[AllaN01Bear]

3. last nite , the aqumdi hit purple . we are more than purple , the visibility is 500 yards .

i have a flutter and a fib. ( heart condition where the speed of the heart takes off for no reason ( afib ( artial fibulation,( heart is cavitating, not pumping at all just spinning its wheels .) where as a flutter , the heart has an electrical short in it) heart has been rather cranky lately.

[applegrove]

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