All that lightning did start some small fires the other night, but the big culprits are in California. It's a sunny day today, but it looks like harmattan out there. In West Africa, there's the rainy season and harmattan season, when the dust in from the Sahara and makes you think you're in downtown LA under a smog alert. The photo at the right, borrowed from Wikipedia, shows minarets in Abuja, Nigeria.You get the idea.
The fire generated haze has spread all the way to the Olympic peninsula. Last night's sunset had obvious particulates in the air. We were later treated to a bit of lightning over Underwood Mt, but the storm went around us.This morning I could hardly see Mt. Hood through the haze.
It looked like it should have been a cloudless day. Fortunately we have a little breeze coming up, maybe it will move some of it out of here (and make the windsurfers and kiteboarders happy).If my throat feels this bad from smoke two states away, I hate to think what the Californians are breathing right now.
So the Word is, no place is perfect. But this one is close enough.
2 comments:
Hey - there's an easy solution -- quit breathing so much.
Look at it this way - what you're breathing today is what we breathe every day in Texas with the petrochemical industry. Besides, if the smoke's coming from California, you might can get high off it.
I'm heading out to the deck to inhale...later, man.
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