sweet jeebus. the smoke here in northern cali is HORRIBLE. I

[ourbluenation]

I've lived up here for 20 years. This is bad.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Last year here in San Diego, got bad

I know what you mean

[BuyingThyme]

2. It makes for some great sunsets though.

[Bobbieo]

3. If you can breathe through them!

[ourbluenation]

6. county air quality board advising that nobody go outside. ...

usually thats for the elderly and sensitive.

[ourbluenation]

4. the first day I thought the same thing. that was saturday. I'm over it now. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

11. What's even better than watching the sunset is watching the fire at night from a moderate distance.

Yes, fire is destructive, but it's also a very beautiful natural phenomenon.

[Hekate]

5. I'm sorry. I hope they can get the 500 fires under control quickly....

Last year we had ash and smoke dumped on us for over two months from the gigantic Zaca Fire. Take care of your lungs, okay? And stay safe.

Hekate

[ourbluenation]

8. I'm in a valley and the inversion is sinking it all in here. my son was down there for that...

now he's home for this.

[dubeskin]

7. Tell me about it!

As I was getting on to 65, if you know where that is, and I looked towards Auburn and the mountains, it was terrible. I could hardly see past my little town. I was surprised at how many people were out doing stuff today though with how bad the air was.

Was it a Spare The Air day today?

[ourbluenation]

9. that system that moved thru here on friday night was eery. twister weather.

w out the twisters. we're surrounded by remote forest here in mendocino county and a lot of them they're just letting burn. it's really bad.

[dubeskin]

12. That's scary.

Thankfully the only thing we need to worry about it if a house catches fire, because it could spread really fast.

We were trying to pinpoint the location of the fire today. Because there was so much, I'd say it was probably in like the Santa Clara area and probably one up in Colfax/Auburn/Truckee. That's one of the unfortunate downsides to being near Sacramento. You get the winds from all over, and if there's a fire it all leads straight to you.

But best of luck to you. Hope you get through it safely :hug:

[Aqaba]

10. Northern California?

I've always heard they have the best smoke up there!

j/k

Good luck to you up there.

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. Humboldt Gold has really gone down hill, eh?

Back when I was in college, the smoke was pretty fine. I mean... err....



Oh, you mean the fires.

:yoiks:

[FrenchieCat]

14. My parents live in Suisun City(close to Fairfield), up Green Valley Road above the Golf course

and there is a fire burning about 2 miles from their house. They are on volunteer evacation mode there in that area.

The fire has been burning since yesterday.

[ourbluenation]

15. here's a pic...that sky would normally be vibrantly blue.

[Mountainman]

16. I read that there were 700 fires burning due to lightning.

[ourbluenation]

18. we've got 131 burning just in our county alone. all from that lighting on friday night.

it sucks.

[Gormy Cuss]

17. The air's better here but still pretty smoky.

No fires within 20 miles of us AFAIK but it's also a valley and the bad air has been lingering since last weekend. The long views are all very hazy.

[donco6]

19. I'm in Palo Alto tomorrow.

Flying in from Denver. I've heard it's bad.

[AlCzervik]

20. yes, it's been bad here for a few days and i'm not even where the fire is.