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
