Apparently our current low pressure area is acting like a funnel, sucking the smoke from the wildfires to the south.
The particles contained in the toxic smoke can enter your lungs and stay there. Masks can not filter out particles of this tiny size. A ring of these same particles strung together like beads could circle a human hair like a tiny pearl necklace.
They are asking people in the worst affected areas to stay inside. They are saying that people with asthma might be severely affected, and in New York, they are expecting a lot of hospitalizations of asthma patients.
@originnone I wouldn't have thought it would be that bad, all the way from Canada. But I heard that the area burned is bigger than the state of New Jersey already. It's a really huge fire.
@AbbeyRhode you know just about every place I’ve wanted to visit but never have has been lit on fire and destroyed or shredded in a tornado or hurricane. I thought Gatlinburg area would be a great vacation destination and it burnt. I would have loved to visited Joplin and a strong tornado devastated it. And I’ve always liked the idea of going to Canada’s wilderness but now it’s burnt, a lot of it anyway.
@AbbeyRhode yes they were a concern, happening so much in rural areas. One did come to the south edge of this city and it caught cars and an apartment building on fire after jumping a highway. One time I was driving home from work in SE OKC and driving down a road called Sooner Road. There were 7 smaller wildfires on the east side of the road in a rural area on a 2 mile stretch. Residents and volunteers were working to put them out. They thought someone was dragging a muffler on the road and caused those fires, it just took a spark to start a fire it was that hot & dry. And one large fire east of the city several miles that killed the lady I used to buy herbs & other plants from at the Flea market here. Someone drove up to her rural home & told her to get out, there was a wildfire headed that way. She told them she had to get her dog and they went on their way to flee & maybe warn others. She got burnt up before she could get the dog & leave. And others too, one came about a half-mile from where my brother-in-law lived…it burned up an area with a lot of large cedar trees.
@cherokeepatti I can’t see the video but there is such a thing as a helitorch used to start a prescribed fire which can ultimately help. I don’t remember details but you can look that up.
