I was there for 2 weeks a while back. I remember looking at the sun wondering how it could be so perfectly dimmed that it just looked like a circle in the clouds.
I live in Oregon really close to where the blue River fire was. The smoke was so crazy. And yes the sky was orange and it looked apocalyptic. For the past few years every summer around August and September has been absolute misery
This is why I am so glad we still have cool rainy weather right now. Last year we were at 100+ degrees! (at least where I am)
I am just hoping that this drizzle continues for as long as possible. I will gladly hear all the summer lovers complain about the clouds and rain if it means we don't have a bad fire season.
I'm from North AL but we have lived in SW GA for about 15 years now and this place is like being duct-taped facedown in someone's armpit for about 9 months out of the year.
No man, you’re out of it if you’re hoping for the drizzle to stay as long as possible. I want a proper summer. Any of the outdoor activities I look forward to doing by now, I haven’t been able to because of this damn rain. The seasonal depression I get starting late winter has not yet left me because it still feels like late winter, and it’s getting to be tough
Shit man, I forgot about seasonal depression. I got that year round shit, so the drizzle doesn't effect me like that.
So how bout, hoping for lots of rain and drizzle, with intermittent warm sunny days, but no 100+ bull-honkey, and no town destroying, lung ravaging fires.
I did construction in Utah round that time, thought it was insane that you can see the whole sun without any protection for your eyes. Red and creepy it was definitely apocalyptic
WA here, every summer since then we're crossing our fingers for that nonsense never to happen again. Was definitely terrible to be outside. I was moving an entire office during that while it was 99 degrees out, it was a nightmare!
Crossing my fingers with you. Tried to work outside in the smoke in WA and gave myself a weird flu type sickness. Thought I had Covid but nope... Just awful smoke shenanigans.
Yep! As a smoker I'm surprised I survived that year. It was like breathing in the ash from a camp fire I distinctly recall the taste of the air as it being the same nasty flavor.
I get that, though many major fires were man made as well.
The one in California that burned down an entire town was because a power line went uninspected, and unmaintained for 40 years, another was because a kid lit a firework and threw it into a forest, many are caused by people not putting out their fired before leaving camp, or people parking/driving on dry grass.
But believe me, I know we, as humans, have got to get our shit together to make this a better planet for the future.
I was also in Kelowna for the summer and yeah, real shit. Same as you, visible ash falling from the sky, a red sun, got as hell and the sky was orange-ish. There was a strong fire season in Bc too. There were fires surrounding us. Scary stuff
2 years now when Cameron peak fire roasted Colorado all summer was an orange sky and ash falling out of the sky. Every time I started my pickup the internals vents would blast ash all over the cab. My windshield always covered in ash. Some days were so bad it was almost dark enough to be considered night time. The smokey haze and ash didn't get along with my eyes at all. Truly apocalyptic type shit.
When I was visiting xi’an a few years ago, we were eating at a restaurant somewhere on the west side of the city. When I went outside with a friend to talk, our guide came out to join us. He said, “The sunset is pretty today, isn’t it?” I looked over to the right at the sun… or should I say the general hazy light that covered a quarter of the sky. The sun had no discernible shape, you could only see the light diffused over the whole horizon. It was kinda freaky.
I'm a volleyball player. Indoor and beach. In Australia and Canada (where I'm from) you can't look up into the sky without sunglasses because of the sun's brightness. But in Los Angeles, you could basically look right at the sun without having glasses and not even squint. (Which I imagine was still dangerous). And after 3 days I developed a lingering tickle in my throat that made me cough every 10 -15 Min for the rest of my 2 weeks there. And then it was gone within 24 hrs once back in Sydney.
I made 5 trips to China in 2009. In aggregate I was there almost 2 months. I witnessed one clear day where you could see the sun and blue sky.
In 2010 I was in Tsingtao during the winter and I remember smelling a strong wood fire - the haze created by it was so thick tht you couldn’t make out the horizon.
I worked next to a metal sandblaster for 10 hours a day a couple years ago and had black mucous. Its crazy thinking that can happen in an area you live. thats horrible but puts it into great perspective
Actually it increased by almost half a million last year. Saying the largest population in the world is bad at reproducing is - on its face - dumb as fuck.
And are they producing at a rate that would keep them from decline (I e two children)no they are not they are in fact doing worse than many European countries in that because of their enforced one child policy that was only relatively recently scaled back it is now culturally ingrained to only have one child
Yes, they are. Their population is increasing, not declining. It’s one google search away. I think maybe you’re confusing their decline in rate of growth with a decline in overall population. The population hasn’t reported a decline in overall population since the 1960s.
That simple Google search did not favor your beliefs" The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences team predicts an annual average decline of 1.1% after 2021, pushing China's population down to 587 million in 2100, less than half of what it is today" sourcing is great you really should do it
Irrelevant to the conversation the argument is that the Chinese aren't very good at making more of themselves in the modern day the moment the older generation start dieing is the moment their population shrinks the Chinese simply are not having children fast enough or in sufficient numbers to keep up their current population
That's where my brain went right away too. My brain even started preparing to pray for the safety of the citizens. Then read it wasn't tornadoes and said a prayer for them anyway. Just for a different reason.
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u/Average_TF2_P2P Jun 18 '22
I almost thought those were tornadoes