I live in W N Y, the smoke looks like fog, no sun as usual. Yesterday heavy rain cleared the gloom. We even have a health advisory today. I am not to worried because my man cave looks the same smoking a Lat blend !
Canada wild Fire
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Here in Wisconsin, the air quality is considered hazardous. There's an air quality scale I learned about yesterday 0-400. 400 being the worst, the city of Waukesha that I was in, was at a 328 yesterday. And I can feel it too. It can be hard to breathe at times. They are telling people not to go outside unless absolutely necessary. I've heard talk about wearing masks too.
Unreal.
Unreal.
Th US west had terrible fires and now Canada. The US south is getting hammered with the heat and the US midwest is having terrible storms. Millions of people are really having a tough time now, my prayers are with them.
I feel for those suffering this. We had smoke from the Canadian fire for 3 days a few weeks ago. But apparently all of middle America has dark skies with high particle counts. Is that fire still burning?! I am grateful to be outside the perimeter of the bad air at the moment. No fun for us who like to run and bike daily.
Today will be Lane 1-Q in the unmarked cellini hungarian after reading another thread. Monday and Tuesday I had two eastern cottontails in the backyard trimming the clover and wild strawberries. This morning there were three. I'm starting to see a pattern here. They are like pipes, 
The bad air days extended at least as far as here in central North Carolina. I felt it with an occasional cough and some watery eyes and air quality warnings that had me mostly stay inside. I try to catch a walk most days, and I run errands without much outdoor time. We had a couple days when the sky turned sick orange, not like New York, but not normal looking.
I've alway enjoyed the fresh crisp air in Canada, so the wildfires up there make me feel badly for us all.
I've alway enjoyed the fresh crisp air in Canada, so the wildfires up there make me feel badly for us all.
I feel sorry for the wildlife that can't escape it.
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The problem is that in March of 2021 FireSmart Canada replaced Smokey Bear as their wildfire prevention mascot with Ember the FireSmart Fox:
An ember...maybe that's what started the fires? Had they stuck with good old Smokey, then perhaps none of this might now be happening.
An ember...maybe that's what started the fires? Had they stuck with good old Smokey, then perhaps none of this might now be happening
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What is really sad is that in the US. the reporting is all about the smoke, and ONLY about the smoke as it effects the US. Smoke maps don't even show Canada. Very little reporting on the source of the smoke, where the fires are, or the devastating trail of destruction they leave behind.
Man, I'm glad that a mainstream, respectable publication is covering this. Sea level changes are more effected by flushing your toilet that any kind of climate shift.I feel sorry for the wildlife that can't escape it.
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Humans Have Shifted Earth's Axis by Pumping Lots of Groundwater
Removing water from the ground has led to sea-level rise and caused Earth's axis to shift by about 2.6 feet between 1993 and 2010, per a new study
We have on-site septic and (up gradiant) a shallow, spring-fed well. So it's a closed loop.That's why I don't flush
I'm so f'n righteous, it makes me proud of myself.
Makes me wonder - all the people that eschew pipe smoking to save their lungs, all that trouble of avoiding second hand smoke, even eating only plants and all that; in the end this air comes along and destroys all that effort. No one gets out of this life alive. I'd rather die smiling.
And while we're on the subject - people say no one puts on their tombstone "I wish I worked more", and yet no one puts on their tombstone, "I wish I died with less money".
I think maybe a several weeks ago Connecticut was in the thick of it. Nothing like stepping outside smelling camp fire and Latakia. No really there's nothing like it.
Anyway...best wishes to all those adversely affected by the wildfire smoke.
And while we're on the subject - people say no one puts on their tombstone "I wish I worked more", and yet no one puts on their tombstone, "I wish I died with less money".
I think maybe a several weeks ago Connecticut was in the thick of it. Nothing like stepping outside smelling camp fire and Latakia. No really there's nothing like it.
Anyway...best wishes to all those adversely affected by the wildfire smoke.
I probably contributed to the Earth's axis shift from all the crap that I buried in Iraq, it was like one giant litter box out there 
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Or, as Tom Lehrer once sang:
"The breakfast garbage that you throw into the bay,
They drink at lunch, in San Jose!"