![]() 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.
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
And this updated map shows that Alabama may soon be at risk as well.
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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.
![]() 09/18/2020 at 13:28 |
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Well it does make for a nice orange sunset.
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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.
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Here in Colorado, we can provide our own smoke from wildfire. We don’t need California’s help.
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Get back to me when your AQI is over 300 :)
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We usually get the Saharan dust from all the way across the Atlantic.
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My mom lived in Green Valley for a few years. Nice part of the country.
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It’s high time Texas starts sending some bbq or something over here.
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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.
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Nah, we keep the good stuff for ourselves.
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Sure they could graze grasslands and start logging again, but that would be bad for the environment.
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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 !”
09/18/2020 at 13:40 |
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Just for curiosity’s sake, I looked up the AQI for Pittsburgh:
Then there’s the real-time rankings for the US:
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Today was the first time I’ve seen the sun in the morning for two weeks, so that was nice.
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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.
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that big spinny thing upper left is supposed to give us some rain the next couple days so hopefully that will help up here
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I figured it all came down to a water supply.
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Fingers crossed! Hopefully it doesn’t bring lightning.
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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
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Was that the gender reveal stunt that started all of this?
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That’s not a dig btw, I hope the air quality improvement follows for you and anyone else in the path of the smoke.
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Best coast tryna take over the world!
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Cute smoke you got there. This was high noon in Issaquah, WA the other day
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The prebuilt canals were a big selling point.
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We’ve had smoke in the upper atmosphere in Phoenix for the last two weeks or so. Made for some even more killer sunsets.
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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! ;)
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Not just 2020...
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Did...did he actually say that?
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Always assure the reality is worst than... anything else... with him :
https://globalnews.ca/news/7340612/austria-donald-trump-forest-city/
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Stable Genius™
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I know it’s not quite as bad, but we do get the Saharan dust every year.
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Either 0 or 1 here with a 13 a few miles away on this neat interactive map.
https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-quality
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Tell issaquah to cut it out with the roadwork plz
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I am sadly saddled with an account where I am now in Issaquah twice a week for the indefinite future.
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California, Oregon, and Washington plus I think a little British Columbia with some Nevada and Colorado all making the sky nice and hazy for you all.
Conspiracy : DEA set off all these fires to clear illegal pot farms in national parks and government owned land.
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That fire is one of many. Though a firefighter just died fighting that fire: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/firefighter-killed-california.html