Thursday, July 10, 2008
Smoke Everywhere
OK Butte County has been on fire for a month now and the smoke is getting old. The ash is raining down and getting everywhere. It is dreary outside, almost like fog in the winter, it is depressing. When you look out the window it is dark and gloomy and you think that it should be cold. But then you walk outside and it is 110 degrees and just nasty.
I took a few photos this week, so that I could post about how tired I am of the smoke. The first one is of the red sun at about 7:30 pm on Tuesday.
The next one was taken at about Noon on Tuesday to show how dark it was outside at Noon. I thought the smoke was bad on Tuesday when I took the photo.
Then I took one today at about 3:00pm at the same place to show what really bad smoke is like. So now I know that it really was not that bad earlier in the week as now the trees and hills in the Tuesday photo are not even visible.
According to all the news reports it is also unhealthy to breath this smoke. Lots of people around town are wearing N95 dust masks. I have not resorted to a mask yet, but the smoke is definitely burning my eyes and throat.
I took a few photos this week, so that I could post about how tired I am of the smoke. The first one is of the red sun at about 7:30 pm on Tuesday.
The next one was taken at about Noon on Tuesday to show how dark it was outside at Noon. I thought the smoke was bad on Tuesday when I took the photo.
Then I took one today at about 3:00pm at the same place to show what really bad smoke is like. So now I know that it really was not that bad earlier in the week as now the trees and hills in the Tuesday photo are not even visible.
According to all the news reports it is also unhealthy to breath this smoke. Lots of people around town are wearing N95 dust masks. I have not resorted to a mask yet, but the smoke is definitely burning my eyes and throat.
Labels: forest fire, smoke
# posted by Ingineer66 @ 7/10/2008 03:44:00 PM 
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Thanks for the update Jim, and the photos of all the smoke. It looks so oppressive, and we have been thinking about all of you. Kim L. told me today that Warren M. is on the cut off to evacuate his house in Paradise. We will be keeping you all in our thoughts and hoping they get all the fires under control. Try and stay cool, and breathe easy!
Those pictures really say it all. I have been in Montana a couple of times when the fires were so bad that you only had a mile visibility in Missoula. That time we didn't stay there but drove right on through to stay in Butte. When you live somewhere, you don't have that option. Even up here in Oregon (mid state) we had the smoke when the fire were so bad. It didn't feel healthy this far away.
Thanks for the comments. It is still smokey and dreary. It has been this way for over a month. We saw a patch of blue sky with clouds last weekend and it was like "What is that?"
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