Posted on 11/16/2018 3:25:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
Schools and tourist attractions across the San Francisco Bay Area were shut Friday and residents were urged to remain indoors as smoke from California’s deadliest ever wildfire — a three-hour drive away — produced air quality levels worse than in polluted megacities in South Asia.
The closures came as the number of people missing from the giant Camp Fire, which has devoured an area roughly the size of Chicago since it broke out last week, soared to more than 600, with 63 confirmed dead.
President Donald Trump is set to visit the tinder-dry state on Saturday to meet victims of the inferno, which has laid waste to the town of Paradise at the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, destroying around 10,000 homes.
Some 180 miles (290 kilometers) to the southwest, San Francisco ordered all public schools shut and its iconic cable cars returned to their stations as the Air Quality Index soared to 213, comparable to Dhaka, Bangladesh and worse than Kolkata, India. […]
Mayor London Breed announced that public buses would be free for the day in order to ensure people have access to enclosed transportation.
Photos posted on social media showed the famous Golden Gate Bridge shrouded in thick smog. …
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Let them choke on it. I don’t care.
...dogs are protesting...
Everyone start throwing rocks towards San Francisco to make sure the toxic smoke stays there.
It’s cooking on the sidewalk. Watch out for the re-fried beans.
I’m here in it. I’ve been to Mexico City and Beijing, so it’s not the worst I’ve ever experienced, but it is the worst I’ve experienced in the United States. Makes no sense to close the schools however, as very few people in San Francisco have air filtration at home. If the kids can’t go out to play, I fail to see why they shouldn’t be in class!
Gorebal Warning.
This show wasn't half bad, back in the day. ;)
How can they tell?
So what do we think we learn from this pure coincidence?
Inscense and peppermits ought to do the trick.
I have friends in Carmel who are getting air purifiers because the air is so bad even there.
I found a little (About 1”) pile of black ash on the hood of my Suburban this morning.
It didn’t look like someone put a cigarette out on it as there was no tobacco chunks and no damage to the paint.
It looks like it just floated down and softly landed there.
It’s ash. REALLY fine black ash.
Problem is....I’m in Denver.
Anyone think it could have floated all the way here?
We learn this might not be a good route for the train.
How convenient that all that vegetation and houses that were in the way aren’t any more.
Perhaps they should not live in a human litter box?
It’s God’s punishment for having democrats in charge.
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