That morning, in the SF Bay Area we woke up to an orange glow throughout the cities. It began as soon as daylight appeared and lasted until nightfall. It was remarked about by the local news and experienced from the City to at least the South Bay. The cause, we were told, had to do with air from at least 20 wildfires that were fading out…
How's the breathing? During summer last year, we had to stay indoors because the pollution was off the scale, but the sky didn't look anything like that!
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I was thinking that I didn’t remember any particular kind of smell when I went out. But this was also during the pandemic so we were all wearing masks. 😷
Another age related memory but when the local mills still operated open hearth furnaces our night sky looked like that. Also the smoke obliterated the stars.
@Elessar Yes. This was the year we had a huge number of firestorms in both southern and far northern parts of the state. The Bay Area stayed fire-free—except for the air quality. 🙁
Trump played games with federal aid because, well, we’re California, not realizing that even though MAGAs aren’t a majority here, there are some.
And many of them had enclaves in the fire areas, ironically. He was dragging his feet helping his own voters. 🙄
@bijouxbroussard No surprise there. Though I bet that if he has the chance he'll withdraw the aids from his own states too 🙈 unless at most of he has a mansion or golf course on it
@JimboSaturn Yes, it really was ! This was during the pandemic, too, so the streets were rather deserted. A friend and I drove to the store, and it was like something out of a sci-fi movie. 😳
@bijouxbroussard not sure if it was the same year or not but these all remind me of pics of the same color skies I saw from further up the coast in both Eureka and Fort Bragg, which was just surreal to me because I would not have imagined the coast to be affected that way by inland fires, I woud've thought possibly winds coming in off the ocean would push pollutants and such eastward
