@AbbeyRhode I hope you have an air cleaner inside your home. Not good to breathe all of that. That photo has the color of an old color photo taken in the early 1960’s.
@cherokeepatti The AC's help. I had wrapped them with plastic screening to keep the bugs out, now I'm glad I did it. I've never seen the sky that color, it was creepy.
@AbbeyRhode We’ve had dust storms and also dozens of large wildfires in Oklahoma in 2011-2012 during an extended heat wave and drought and the sky got that tinge to it…would wake up smelling smoke and go to sleep smelling it and smell it again for days.
@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.
