onlyforaminute said:

you can see the air you breathe

ashes in the eye

kryptonian sun (red)

and stoopid people that

still wanna play with fireworks

and bonfires...

folks seem to have that

"it won't happen to me" attitude

UNTIL IT HAPPENS!!!

Never considered fire ecology before I moved to southern Califorina.

Certain places have always burned and the ecosystem has adapted.

onlyforaminute said:

What do you want to know? The state is huge so while these fires are massive and devastating they don't personally affect the majority living in it.

This is what I have to tell my family who calls everytime they watch the news. Earthquakes too.

Almost pitch black outside at 11 a.m.. Ash covering everything... A lurid stench in the air. An invisible sun. A man yelling "Fuck You!" at the sky. Unreal apocalyptic scenario...

[Edited 9/9/20 10:57am]

Skies look overcast - but it's all smoke

purplethunder3121 said:

La Nina is here, threatening even bigger blazes and storms

Brian K. Sullivan, Bloomberg

Published 6:54 am PDT, Thursday, September 10, 2020

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Photo: Bloomberg Photo By David Paul Morris.

The extreme weather that has hammered California with runaway wildfires and hit Louisiana with its most powerful hurricane in 160 years may be about to get even worse.

La Nina -- a phenomenon that occurs when the surface of the Pacific Ocean cools -- has officially formed, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. It triggers an atmospheric chain reaction that stands to roil weather around the globe, often turning the western U.S. into a tinder box, fueling more powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic and flooding parts of Australia and South America.

"We're already in a bad position, and La Nina puts us in a situation where fire-weather conditions persist into November and possibly even December," said Ryan Truchelut, president of Weather Tiger LLC. "It is exacerbating existing heat and drought issues."

https://www.sfgate.com/ne...TQmcxO3KgE

^^^^ that's no bueno.


The air quality has been so bad - in an odd way it's good that we are all wearing masks when we venture outside, it is likley preventing us from inhaling the miniscule ash floating about in the air. We are coming off a record-breaking heat wave also and the weather cooled a bit which is good because having windows open is also not being recommended.

[Edited 9/11/20 11:00am]

SoulAlive said:

onlyforaminute said:

What do you want to know? The state is huge so while these fires are massive and devastating they don't personally affect the majority living in it.

yeah,the majority of these fires are in the hills....far away from the normal residential neighborhoods.I live in California and we are fine.We have wildfire season every year.

Same here. The air is awful... reminds me of the 70s lol

SoulAlive said:

it does mess up the air quality,though.

Question for you - did you grow up in Cali? I did and I was talkng with a childhood friend the other day and neither of us rememeber fires of this caliber ever happening when we were kids. In fact, we remember when it used to rain at least once in summertime.

it's kinda idiotic for someone to say the shit is far away and doesn't affect

most of the people in cali...

the air index in this mufukkka is atrocious...

i guess if you gotta lie to yo fam about shit you gotta kinda

believe yo lies if you don't wanna feel like a liar OR

there are some folks so fukkked up that IF it don't affect their day

feel like it's good with erbody... I CAN'T FUKKKIN BREATHE!!!

and i'm not eem a worse case senario...

if you live on inhalers, you still can't get em before they're due

and with the air not bein air you find you need to use them more...

ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE:

SUPERMAN BEEN HIDIN FROM ME...

on the first day of the kryptonian sun i smacked fire out his ass...

when he a regular mufukkka he soft as hot icecream...

and we'll be havin this sun for at least another month

so i just do whateverthefukkkiwant!!!

I have always lived in California. I do not remember fires of this magnitude, frequency or sheer

volume.

California does not receive rain from March-October and is quite dry with brown terrain after June.

As I recall, in the past most fires were set by arsonists, then older, failing PGE (Utility) transformers etc were responsible for sparking fires. This year there was a fluke thunderstorm with intense,

prolonged lightening which set off numerous fires. We have only had 50% 'normal' rain-fall as well.

I live in the Bay Area and cannot go outside as air quality is poor.

I am pretty much resigned to having fires from Aug-early Nov from now on.

Am considering leaving CA. Never thought I would ever leave this state. (High cost of living too)

KingBAD said:

onlyforaminute said:

KingBAD said:

you can see the air you breathe

ashes in the eye

kryptonian sun (red)

and stoopid people that

still wanna play with fireworks

and bonfires...

folks seem to have that

"it won't happen to me" attitude

UNTIL IT HAPPENS!!!

Yeah after a few days down the road THEN the air quality changes but it's not immediate for most people living here unless one has severe allergies and is sensitive to the slightest air change. I only began smelling it Thursday. I think it was 2011 the fires spread so rapidly it seemed all of SoCal needed evacuating. We remember and sleep with an ear opened to the news still we haven't dealt with it like those folks in the thick of it no need in acting like we are.

there's been a devistatin fire in cali er year

the air quality has been bad since the gas leak

and fires from a couple of years back (15 or 16)

and YES it ain'r like we all in the midst of it

my house ain't burnin and i don't need to exacuate

HOWEVER

breatin is a thing i like to do

and breathin this shit is a prollum for a lot more people

than those gettin burned out they houses...

funny......

the people who don't wanna live around people

seem to be the most affected by fires and mudslides...

hard to sympathize....

KingBAD said:

those fires are up north and further south

but this is a sunny day...

and eem on a 'clear' day you can see the air you breathe

this was the first day of august

this was in june

the only thing one could say in favor of this

is, because of the smoke

it's no where near as hot as it could be...

FragileUndertow said:

I live in the Bay Area. I think it was last Wednesday? the air was bad from the fires. Tuesday at 6:30 am the sun was out. Wednesday at 6:30 am it was still dark, Around 11am it still looked like it was early morning. There was ash in the air, build up on vehicles, It looked like the apocalypse was here In some areas the skies were red / orange 'ish You could look directly at the sun with out harming your eyes, My GF said : look at the moon its pretty. Babe that's the Sun! I havent seen it this bad in my area in a long time,

my friend says to me:

"look at the moon... that's a weird place for it to be this time of day"

i was absolutely flumuxed by the statement because at that time of day

no way the moon gonna be anywhere near where the sun was...

FragileUndertow said:

I live in the Bay Area. I think it was last Wednesday? the air was bad from the fires. Tuesday at 6:30 am the sun was out. Wednesday at 6:30 am it was still dark, Around 11am it still looked like it was early morning. There was ash in the air, build up on vehicles, It looked like the apocalypse was here In some areas the skies were red / orange 'ish You could look directly at the sun with out harming your eyes, My GF said : look at the moon its pretty. Babe that's the Sun! I havent seen it this bad in my area in a long time,

It's horrible there - so sorry, it is truly heartbreaking. Whole towns have been wiped out and people are missing.

I am in Southern-Cal and we can finally see the sun during daylight hours - the wind must have shifted. Smoke fills the skies and the air is toxic.

Ironically, wearing masks (for covid) helps with being out in that air.

[Edited 9/14/20 10:57am]

https://www.nytimes.com/i...d7e1881b70

HOW CLIMATE MIGRATION WILL RESHAPE AMERICAMillions will be displaced. Where will they go?

3 days of blue sky in the Bay Area!!

Margot said:

3 days of blue sky in the Bay Area!!

Great news! We have sun in LA an air quality is getting better but the fires are ot contained

Margot said: