Can Smell the Smoke

[Anonymous]

Some people don't have the bandwidth for this.

[Anonymous]

Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

When the air quality is code red or worse it’s reasonable to move to indoor activities. A lot of little kids have asthma and shouldn’t be out in poor air quality anyway.

I do smell the smoke today but it doesn’t seem that bad in terms of the air quality compared to earlier this month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you at OP? I just came from Safeway (drove with windows down) and didn't smell anything. Air quality is mid-60s. I am in MoCo.

You can smell/taste it in Germantown. Back to using my inhaler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you at OP? I just came from Safeway (drove with windows down) and didn't smell anything. Air quality is mid-60s. I am in MoCo.

You can smell/taste it in Germantown. Back to using my inhaler.

How funny. I just came from Germantown and didn't smell anything there either. Do you have lung issues?

[Anonymous]

Air pollution is one of the things that shorten people's lives, and/or makes the last decade of their life really uncomfortable.

You may not realize it, but multiple studies have shown this is true. Just like cigarette smoke that impacts your risk of cancers and heart disease, so does particulate pollution and ozone pollution.

Take it seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you at OP? I just came from Safeway (drove with windows down) and didn't smell anything. Air quality is mid-60s. I am in MoCo.

You can smell/taste it in Germantown. Back to using my inhaler.

How funny. I just came from Germantown and didn't smell anything there either. Do you have lung issues?

Particulate matter can be highly localized and move rapidly with the breeze. So if you weren't in PP's exact spot at the same time, you might have been in a pocket with fewer particulates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you at OP? I just came from Safeway (drove with windows down) and didn't smell anything. Air quality is mid-60s. I am in MoCo.

You can smell/taste it in Germantown. Back to using my inhaler.

How funny. I just came from Germantown and didn't smell anything there either. Do you have lung issues?

Hilarious indeed, the plebian has lung issues. Let us laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sick of this already. Its this the new normal like these fires won't be ever put out?!

Yes. Welcome to climate change.

[Anonymous]

Don't breathe. That will fix your issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like people in the unhealthy - very healthy AQ ranges should have gotten text alerts. We get text alerts when there may be tornado or flash flood dangers. Why not air quality?

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you at OP? I just came from Safeway (drove with windows down) and didn't smell anything. Air quality is mid-60s. I am in MoCo.

You can smell/taste it in Germantown. Back to using my inhaler.

How funny. I just came from Germantown and didn't smell anything there either. Do you have lung issues?

Do you use Febreez or other plug ins, at home or in your car? They kill your sense of smell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

I work in an elementary school and the first go-round when school was still in session, I had kids in my classroom with red watery eyes, rubbing their eyes endlessly, and kids with asthma coughing their lungs out. The nurse kept sending them back and saying, there's nothing to do, they've already used their inhalers. Not sure why you think this is acceptable for America's children.

[Anonymous]

Well hopefully this is like the Derecho, terrible but clears out a whole bunch of fuel and creates large fire breaks so it won’t happen again for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no, the crazies are going to come back and tell everyone to cancel summer camps (unfortunately, schools out so the usual target isn't available).

I work in an elementary school and the first go-round when school was still in session, I had kids in my classroom with red watery eyes, rubbing their eyes endlessly, and kids with asthma coughing their lungs out. The nurse kept sending them back and saying, there's nothing to do, they've already used their inhalers. Not sure why you think this is acceptable for America's children.

Did you bring it up to MCPS administrators? or where ever you teach?