I check the Fairbanks weather daily, and am usually horrfied by the contrast with our central Florida lovely outlook. For several days now, tho, we have had major smoke pollution from wildfires in southern Georgia and northern Florida. Coughing cits, closed highways, population huddled in the air conditioning, really poor visibility! Today I got up to the now customary pall of smoke-I couldn't see across the canal! I went out to get the daily paper, and was relieved to find we had a good healthy fog, not smoke! Looks the same, but smells ever so much better. So, don't complain about weather; it's even worse elsewhere!. Much love, deolgr
I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.
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So, don't complain about weather; it's even worse elsewhere!.
Much love,
deolgr
Re: Oh, that's just so wrong.
I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.