I thinking of it in relative terms. I've checked it out when it was over 200, the air smelled like I was surrounded by campfires, and my throat started to hurt after 20 seconds of breathing that in. Of course it's not great, but it's certainly more scary looking than a few weeks ago when the air quality was demonstrably worse.
My daughter in San Francisco sent me a picture today from her fire escape. Orange-yellow sky and all the street lights still on because it was that dark at 10am.
My daughter in San Francisco sent me a picture today from her fire escape. Orange-yellow sky and all the street lights still on because it was that dark at 10am.
I sure hope so....one of my sons lives out there.... I'm hoping everything goes ok quicklyI’m near Portland and the smoke has been so thick. That wind storm was something else. I had to turn off the air conditioning the last couple of days because it was bringing in too much smoke into the house.
Stay safe. Hopefully they can get a handle on the fires and this is short-lived.
I sure hope so....one of my sons lives out there.... I'm hoping everything goes ok quicklyI’m near Portland and the smoke has been so thick. That wind storm was something else. I had to turn off the air conditioning the last couple of days because it was bringing in too much smoke into the house.
Stay safe. Hopefully they can get a handle on the fires and this is short-lived.
this looks so similiar to my sons photos...View attachment 524884
I think it's a bit more orange outside than the pic shows. I have to have all of the lights on in my house and it's only 12:45pm. I feel like I am living in a sepia tinted photograph.
OP here. Still hanging in there hoping for the best. The air quality is quite poor still. We are just hanging out in the hazardous range at 479 AQI as we have been. I really dont want to go out but I have to, and walk at that. If I had another way I would.
Hang in there everyone!! These are really strange times. Stay safe!
oh this terrifies me....my son is out below Portland area,he keeps insisting he's still in the green zone....altho the sky is a dark orangeAir quality where I am is 409 right now, but people have said it went over 500 the two previous days. I drove up to Salem to get my son a couple days ago, and the darkest part of the trip was around Brownsville (a little north of Eugene). My son was out in the woods a ways outside the Salem area. He evacuated to Stayton first, then to Salem the next day, and is now home. We think where he was burned down, which is just tragic as it was a camp for disabled people. The family that runs the camp likely lost their home. But we won't know for a while.
He took this pic in Stayton when he first evacuated:
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It was dark but he said the sky was red--and it was at 11 a.m. when he took it. Just scary.
He left the Beachie Creek Fire area. but what's closer to home is the Holiday Farm Fire. My friend's mom had to evacuate her memory care because of it (can you imagine? Cottages full of demented elderly people being asked to leave their home and move to a church? It's just awful. )
A 12 year old boy died up in the Salem area (and his grandma). I couldn't stop crying yesterday. It's just so awful. The family is one who made a roadside amusement park that my family has always enjoyed (Called Enchanted Forest), and I went to as a little kid, then took my own kids to. Just so freaking tragic. I am so grateful my son and the group he was working with heard to leave the area--how hard it must be to get the notification out to everyone, and the situation can change so fast. They left at level 2 (level 1 is get ready, level to is be set, and level three is go immediately).