Now you see it:
Now you don’t:
This is smoke from wildfires in the western US and Canada. A huge disappointment for sightseers in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, but a heartbreaking tragedy for those directly affected by the flames.
Yes, global warming is real.
May all living things find safe shelter.
Amen to that.
There’s a hill right behind my house, about a mile away, there are times we can’t see it.
Ugh. I hope you stay inside when it’s that bad.
I do and if we have to go out, we’ve got our N95s.
I have lots of good cloth masks, but no N95s. I’m not going out. I’m feeling it even indoors.
Really a terrible fire with the smoke covering so much of our country. And to think it’s likely only going to get worse.
Yes, as many sources are now saying, we’re quickly descending into Earth’s new normal. Excessive heat, floods, fires, smoke. It’s really not nice. And my confidence that we’ll do anything about it is getting very low.
Happening all over the world, too. Had to evac an island in Greece.
That’s what’s so depressing about it. Can/will humans do enough fast enough to stop the decline?
Have there never been fires in that area before?
Oh yes, fires every year in the western states. Several years of extreme drought, so much fuel. It’s a lot worse this year, and the prevailing winds are spreading the smoke all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast. The Dixie Fire, in northern California, is now said to be the second largest in the state’s history and has burned more than 700 square miles. Reportedly it was started by a dead tree falling across a power line. That’s all it takes. A few sparks.
Wow so easy, I remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California he had lot’s of serious fires going on, some of the worst up until then. It must be a very hard decision to let people into the countryside when fires are so easy to start.
People in rural and/or remote areas must always be aware of the possibility of fire and distance from fire protection agencies. But it’s a free country and people can live where they want.