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 Californias 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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The “green” policies preventing the clearing out of underbrush is causing more air pollution than me driving my pickup or my ex-wife farting.
I wish MY life had a soundtrack! At least I’d know what was going on, or at least when to DUCK, LOL!
“Who cares? They made their disasters.”
You should care. It is mainly FEDERAL policies that have done this.
” It is mainly FEDERAL policies that have done this.”
NO, it isn’t.
Streets, Rockford, Kojak, or Ironside soundtrack music would work for me.
Those I’d love to see released. I generally buy soundtracks.
The great annual migration on the Pacific Flyway is underway and there were thousands of ducks, egrets, pelicans, stilts, godwits, stilts, sandpipers, cormorants, and other birds on the slough today. At least it was nice seeing all the birds.
A request for all you heartless people mouthing off here. For once, try to show some compassion for people who lost everything in the fires. We have several friends in Paradise who have fortunately not lost their houses or loved ones. The stories they tell of neighbors who were unable to get out are absolutely heart breaking. Neighbors are all pitching in and helping; what are you doing to HELP? California is still full of good conservative people, especially in the foothills and mountains. I wouldn't even wish this on the most miserable liberal person I know. Try to remember what your mothers taught you -- "if you don't have anything nice to say..."
With all due respect, it looks to me like none of the comments are directed towards such people, but rather towards the politicians of the city in the headline who are reacting (and possibly overreacting) to smoke generated three hundred miles away.
For once, try to show some compassion for people who lost everything in the fires
Thanks for your polite perspective. It’s a valid point. But FR used to be a site of compassion but seems to have turned bitterly negative in recent years. California-bashing is particularly obnoxious.
Crap in the air and on your shoes.
During the Thomas fire in Ventura everyone was walking round with masks on. We were downtown shopping and had ash falling on us but I didnt think it was that bad
The list of the missing.
Mostly elderly
Believe me, I get your point, but maybe all the bitterness is, in part, because some Democrats want to kill us off.
Rockford!
James Garner was my Mom’s Heartthrob! I think she’s watched every episode of, ‘The Rockford Files’ as well as, ‘Murphy’s Romance’ about a dozen times, LOL!
I’m more inclined towards a Vintage 1972 Paul Newman or a Tom Selleck of...pretty much ANY age. *Purr* ;)
Yes, that does explain a lot of it. The bitterness wasn’t there 30 or 40 years ago. How far we’ve fallen — all due to the marxocrats.
Yes ! Theres 5 of us !
The wastes on the streets only become big factors when folks fall out from the smog and end up face-to-feces with them....
What is a little smoke if you’re breathing human feces?
Just wait til they get the new batches off the caravans added to the mix.
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