Go Home California

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/18/2020 at 13:21 • Filed to: None

Not only are all the Californians moving to Austin, now they’re sending their smoke our way too.

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And this updated map shows that Alabama may soon be at risk as well.

DISCUSSION (37)

benjrblant > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:27

texas after a day of haze : now we’re getting your smoke too, ugh

washington, vancouver bc, montanna, idaho, wyoming, colorado, utah, nebraska, kansas, oklahoma: welcome to summer 2020.

vondon302 > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:28

Well it does make for a nice orange sunset.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:29

Yeah, it’s weird. I’m out on the ranch outside Tucson (to get away from the Santa Barbara smoke) and this morning was the first day of hazy, smoky crappy air.

Future next gen S2000 owner > benjrblant
09/18/2020 at 13:29

Here in Colorado, we can provide our own smoke from wildfire. We don’t need California’s help.

fintail > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:29

Get back to me when your AQI is over 300 :)

ttyymmnn > benjrblant
09/18/2020 at 13:32

We usually get the Saharan dust from all the way across the Atlantic.

Kinja'd!!!

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/18/2020 at 13:33

My mom lived in Green Valley for a few years. Nice part of the country.

CompactLuxuryFan > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:36

It’s high time Texas starts sending some bbq or something over here.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:37

Yeah, we bought a place in the mountains SE of there. It’s totally NOT like what people visualize Arizona to be.

But, this AM is really the first day this season where the smoke’s bothering me.

ttyymmnn > CompactLuxuryFan
09/18/2020 at 13:37

Nah, we keep the good stuff for ourselves.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:38

Sure they could graze grasslands and start logging again, but that would be bad for the environment.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/18/2020 at 13:39

Before GV, she lived in Phoenix, and I went out to audition for the Phoenix Symphony. Every time I went out there, I wondered who among the pioneers stopped and said, “Hey! Let’s live here !”

user314 > fintail
09/18/2020 at 13:40

Just for curiosity’s sake, I looked up the AQI for Pittsburgh:

Kinja'd!!!

Then there’s the real-time rankings for the US:

Kinja'd!!!

RallyWrench > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:48

Today was the first time I’ve seen the sun in the morning for two weeks, so that was nice.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:49

Yeah, the history of “scouting trails and rail lines to expand the west” is funny. As you, a Texan, know— the southern routes all were much easier terrain. Except for some modest hills in Arizona and CA, the routes to the Pacific would have been much easier across the southern belt... except the scouts quickly figured out “Hey, there’s no water for hundreds of miles”.

The lack of water resource drove most of the action north, despite then needing to deal with obstacles like the Rockies, 9000' passes in Wyoming and rugged basin-and-range all the way to the Sierra.

But the lack of water was a pisser for the southern routes. It’s possible the earlier guys hit “the right week” in the Valley of The Sun when the Salt River had water in it. Of course, Brigham Young famously declared “This IS The Place” for Salt Lake City— apparently not realizing that the lake was undrinkable and untreatable.

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 13:49

that big spinny thing upper left is supposed to give us some rain the next couple days so hopefully that will help up here

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/18/2020 at 13:59

I figured it all came down to a water supply.

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel
09/18/2020 at 13:59

Fingers crossed! Hopefully it doesn’t bring lightning.

Jb boin > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 14:13

It did already reach (faintly) Europe a few days ago : https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-15/smoke-california-wildfires-reaches-east-coast-europe

Kinja'd!!!

ttyymmnn > Jb boin
09/18/2020 at 14:17

Was that the gender reveal stunt that started all of this?

RallyWrench > RallyWrench
09/18/2020 at 14:20

That’s not a dig btw, I hope the air quality improvement follows for you and anyone else in the path of the smoke.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 14:20

Best coast tryna take over the world!

Jb boin > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 14:25

Kinja'd!!!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 14:38

Kinja'd!!!

Cute smoke you got there. This was high noon in Issaquah, WA the other day

DipodomysDeserti > ttyymmnn
09/18/2020 at 15:14

The prebuilt canals were a big selling point.

DipodomysDeserti > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/18/2020 at 15:17

We’ve had smoke in the upper atmosphere in Phoenix for the last two weeks or so. Made for some even more killer sunsets.

DipodomysDeserti > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/18/2020 at 15:21

The first non- Spaniard Euros came over the White Tanks into the Salt River Valley, saw the Salt River a flowing, bunch of pre dug canals, various tribes already practicing subsistence agriculture, and figured, “hey, let’s fuck this valley up!”.

About two hundred years later the Californios started doing the same thing! ;)