Anyone else getting throat-punched by these Bay Area wildfires?

[RockRaven]

Holy hell, this afternoon the wind shifted or something and now I'm living in an ashtray.

We're not in any danger from the fires at the moment, and I wish no one was at all, but I'm gonna have a pity party for a minute here over my throat burning and eye watering...

[Dream Girl]

1. Yep it's pretty bad. At first I thought someone was smoking meat.

Now these just a Smokey haze outside.

[Grokenstein]

2. At work at the airport right now.

Aside from the smell of smoke everywhere, there's straight-up ash particles in the air. Not enough to affect flights, but I've never seen this before.

[skylucy]

3. Yes! The air quality is really bad.

[Brother Buzz]

4. I'm in the ash fallout of the Lake Berryessa fires - Strong smoke haze, and real heavy smoke smell

Cripes, ash is nothing new, but it seems like it's becoming a yearly event. This year is weird because the wind hasn't been all that strong and all this shit just seems to park right on top of me.

[Adsos Letter]

5. This was the smoke in our area yesterday

[DonaldsRump]

6. We're in the East Bay

We had a coating of ash on our outdoor steps and on our car. The stench of smoke/fire was very apparent, and it was very smoggy in the East Bay hills. I didn't realize it was this bad until this morning.

I think the heatwave and the stagnant air is greatly compounding the issue, much like November 2018, until it finally rained just before Thanksgiving and cleared things up.

So we have Trump, Covid-19, the plague (in California), and locusts/cicadas in some parts of the US. We now add fire/ashes. Besides the free-falling economy, what else can go wrong?

[Adsos Letter]

7. Earthquake along the San Andreas Fault.

I keep waiting for that shoe to drop.

[DonaldsRump]

8. I actually uttered words to that effect yesterday...

[hunter]

9. My wife is a healthcare worker dealing with some very serious coranavirus crap...

... and then she goes outside and the sky is orange and it's raining ashes.

"So, this is what the end of the world is like," she said.