Anonymous wrote:I’ve been inside all day, but feel lightheaded. Anyone else?

I got lightheaded and started getting a headache while walking my kid to school (in a mask), and was winded by the time I got home. Have had a headache off and on all day and just feeling not clear-headed.

I was super skeptical about the air quality warnings yesterday because I've lived through many wildfires out West where there is significantly more smoke/ash on a daily basis for weeks and weeks. But I think it's the combination of normal city air quality (much lower than where I lived in the West) combined with the smoke/particles from the fire being carried down on the wind. It's not really just wildfire smoke, it's about how the smoke is trapping all the crap that floats around in the city (especially all the vehicle exhaust) on a daily basis, and prevents it from rising and dissipating.

At least that my theory. Otherwise I can't explain why I feel so awful today due to smoke from a wildfire in another country, but didn't have the same response to fires that were a few miles away, at high altitude, and went on for much longer (we would keep windows closed and didn't eat outdoors, but still went outside, worked out, didn't wear masks or anything through those fires -- it was mostly business as usual with just some accommodation for the smoke and ash).

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Anonymous wrote:Right now the count is 214 Code Purple in the DC area; you can look at the map here:
https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Silver%20Spring&state=MD&country=USA

Yawn

Are you satan? Or work for oil and gas?

I assume you have completely boycotted oil and gas, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I went for a run this morning, when it was only 160. I felt completely fine, and continue to feel normal. It's jumped up a lot though and the day is getting worse.

Cool, but this is unsafe for people with certain conditions, elderly, children.

I have a lung condition and probably would have felt ok going for a walk at 160. But I'm not sure where in this area it was 160 this am. Everything I've seen is 200 and above.

Some apps are lagging because they're not built for this rapid change of circumstances, and some news/radio aren't getting the message out rapidly enough. The idiots at Classical Radio kept saying Code Red this morning, where we were at Code Purple.

Capital Weather Gang (WaPo meteorologists) is up to date.

Those guys know Mahler..not Weather

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Anonymous wrote:Right now the count is 214 Code Purple in the DC area; you can look at the map here:
https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Silver%20Spring&state=MD&country=USA

Yawn

Are you satan? Or work for oil and gas?

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh. Is that what a bio attack would be like? How do we get better windows/doors/insulation?

The housing stock in the DC area is of poor quality, is not built to withstand hurricanes, has no tornado shelters, and some will be in the expanded flood zones that have to be redrawn for our modern epoch. It makes sense, from an energy-friendly perspective, to build homes that are well insulated and have high quality air filtration as well as being resistant to low-category hurricanes and out of flood zones. They all need to have passive solar features as well, such as extended rooflines that provide more shade for windows in the summer.

Sounds wonderful on paper, but impractical to execute.

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Anonymous wrote:I went for a run this morning, when it was only 160. I felt completely fine, and continue to feel normal. It's jumped up a lot though and the day is getting worse.

Cool, but this is unsafe for people with certain conditions, elderly, children.

I have a lung condition and probably would have felt ok going for a walk at 160. But I'm not sure where in this area it was 160 this am. Everything I've seen is 200 and above.

Some apps are lagging because they're not built for this rapid change of circumstances, and some news/radio aren't getting the message out rapidly enough. The idiots at Classical Radio kept saying Code Red this morning, where we were at Code Purple.

Capital Weather Gang (WaPo meteorologists) is up to date.

Those guys know Mahler..not Weather

so what about working out inside?

OP - thanks for the post/link

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been inside all day, but feel lightheaded. Anyone else?

Yes, same. Wondering if it's coming inside like with PP.

I’ve been inside all day, but feel lightheaded. Anyone else?

Anonymous wrote:Right now the count is 214 Code Purple in the DC area; you can look at the map here:
https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Silver%20Spring&state=MD&country=USA

Depends on where you are. Stations in DC proper are measuring 209, 218, 222 and 224. 257 and 273 just south of the beltway near Franconia, VA. 214 in Beltsville, MD. All this is Purple. Gaithersburg and Laurel, MD, areas are in Code Red at 183 and 194 respectively.

So the particulate level is decreasing from the high-200s, low 300s (which last is Code Maroon territory) of mid-morning, thank goodness.

Anonymous wrote:Right now the count is 214 Code Purple in the DC area; you can look at the map here:
https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Silver%20Spring&state=MD&country=USA

Yawn

Right now the count is 214 Code Purple in the DC area; you can look at the map here:
https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Silver%20Spring&state=MD&country=USA

Anonymous wrote:Gosh. Is that what a bio attack would be like? How do we get better windows/doors/insulation?

The housing stock in the DC area is of poor quality, is not built to withstand hurricanes, has no tornado shelters, and some will be in the expanded flood zones that have to be redrawn for our modern epoch. It makes sense, from an energy-friendly perspective, to build homes that are well insulated and have high quality air filtration as well as being resistant to low-category hurricanes and out of flood zones. They all need to have passive solar features as well, such as extended rooflines that provide more shade for windows in the summer.

Gosh. Is that what a bio attack would be like? How do we get better windows/doors/insulation?