friday minus two

With the latest wind shift, the entirety of outdoors smells intimately of smoke and faintly hazy everywhere. it's also pretty much setting off everyone's allergies like whoa. On the upside, there are no near-hourly panicked reports of fire everywhere, so. Balance.

Comments

[omglawdork]

Yeah, it's pretty gross. Husband is downtown and says it's really bad there. Apparently people keep calling 911 because they smell smoke. Since we're next to several huge wildfires and all. *eyeroll*

[ratcreature]

That's bad. I hope your air quality won't reach those Great Smog of London levels.

[ithiliana]

Up here too! *SNEEZES LOUDLY*

I tried 2 Zyrtec yesterday which sort of helped but also made me sort of zonked and I forgot a meeting....

[jenna_thorn]

The kid was trying to convince me he had a cold this morning, because he was stuffy and his throat hurt. Um, no, he had baseball practice last night and we're downwind of the East Texas fires. It was overpowering this morning.

Fingers crossed for rain. i don't know what else will help at this point.

[domarzione]

August in NYC was full of apocalyptic events -- earthquakes, hurricanes, the Mets winning more than two in a row, nineteen inches of rain (when the average is three-and-a-quarter) -- but I can't even fathom wildfires. We don't have the kind of greenspace (or brownspace, I suppose) to support massive foliage fires and, like many urban fire departments, ours swarm like pissed hornets when the alarm number gets higher than four (which is why we lost so many ten years ago). We'd never get a city block to burn at once, let alone an acre. Let alone a quantifiable percentage of the state.

(Which is just as well as I'm very, very pyrophobic.)

Anyway, may the next tropical storm go your way instead of ours; we are likely to go a week without the sun.

[nagasvoice]

Best of luck on fires reigniting, and hope the smoke calms down and the air quality improves. I'm from t he drier parts of the west coast, so I know from worrying about horrible fast-moving brush fires *and* floods!