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maxsolomon

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2. Its worse on the other side of the Cascades

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 12:20 PM

Aug 2018

But this is just awful - and I think there's only 1 fire in the Puget Sound basin, over on the Olympic Peninsula near Lake Cushman.

Worse than last summer. Please Rain.

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Monday's air quality is the worst this century -- and Tuesday's not much better [View all] brooklynite Aug 2018 OP

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