Posted on 01/18/2016 7:25:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last week, President Barack Obama told the audience that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California the smog sometimes got so bad that "people just wouldn't go outside."
"And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die," said Obama.
"I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college--I started college in Los Angeles--when I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest," said the president. "And it was just me sucking in soot and smog." ...
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Governorship of Ronald Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorship_of_Ronald_Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the governor of California for two terms, once in 1967 and again in 1971. He left office in 1975, declining to run for a third term. Robert Finch, Edwin Reinecke, and John L. Harmer served as lieutenant governors over the course of Reagan’s time as governor.
Occidental.
I had to work in Shenzhen from time to time and burned my eyes, my nose and my throat.
Even Tokyo was bad from time to time.
Oh, and then there is Guadalajara when they are burning crops in September.Sun is like an orange ball that you can look right at. (I know, I know, the preposition thing)
You didn’t enjoy the White Privilege that Obama did.
Never mind all these facts. How can there be anything bad now in Beijing, the communist workers paradise?
As a 62 year resident of the LA and Orange County area, the smog was pretty bad up until the 1980s. But not as bad as the photos I have seen of Beijing.
Smog was in the LA basin long before there were cars. The inversion layer traps anything that resembles smoke. That includes particles released by vegetation.
There’s plenty of paints and solvents that you can no longer buy in SoCal because they are prohibited by the AQMD.
Obama was in college- really LOL
Couch surfer is my guess. There's even a song about it!...
I'm looking around for a place to crash
Something simple that hasn't already been trashed
If you let me stay here I'll mow your lawn
Since I don't have a job I can party 'til dawn
Quietly here I'll sleep. I won't even make a peep
You won't even know I'm here. Hey, do you got a beer?
Couch surfin'! Couch surfin'!
Woo! Surfin'! Couch surfin'!
It's okay, 'cause I like the couch
I broke your vase and I cut myself. Ouch!
What do you mean 'I gotta leave today?'
Well once again, friends, I'm on my way.
Slumbering here, I dream. Stayed up for years it seems
As soon as I get a job, I won't live like such a slob!
Couch surfin'! Couch surfin'!
Woo! Surfin'! I'm couch surfin'!
Yeah! Surf!
I stubbed my toe on the kitchen sink
I was just gonna go get me somethin' to drink
My cigarette flew and it couldn't be found!
Lucky I didn't burn your whole house down!
Quietly here I'll sleep. I won't even make a peep
You won't even know I'm here. Just letting you know that we're out of beer!
Couch surfin'! Couch surfin'!
Woo! Surfin'! I'm couch surfin'!
Yeah!
Couch surfin'! Surfin'! I'm couch surfin'!
(spoken part)
Can I crash here for a few days? I'll mow your lawn—if you've got a riding lawnmower!
I'm gonna grab me another beer, okay? Thanks a lot, man! I'll pay you back as soon as I get a job!
Couch surfin'! Couch surfin'!...
--Reverend Horton Heat
I lived in LA from 75 to 77. There were occasional “smog days”, mostly during the warmer months. But most of my time there, the weather was gorgeous and the air quality was fine.
I remember being on an apartment balcony up in the Hollywood hills on the Bi-Centennial with a great view of the whole LA basin. Beautiful day, a little hazy, we watched fireworks popping up all over the place during the evening. Great memory.
Obastard is a goddamn liar!
I lived in So Cal most of my adult life.
By 1975 you could literally count the trees in the Angeles National Forest from Downey, Ca.
In the afternoon (when the smog was the worst) on my way home from work I could clearly see (and count) all of the antennas on Mt. Wilson.
The LA BASIN was even known by the indians as the “VALLEY OF THE SMOKES” long before the Spaniards arrived.
Thank you.
No room for smog with all the choom already being inhaled.
This putz can’t not lie.
An outright lie. Severe smog in this country was alleviated two generations before Mr. Reagan was Governor of California.
I highly doubt our pitiful excuse for journalists will be compelled to call him out on this absolutely verifiable falsehood.
Oh, I believe he went running, like the little pansy he is to the bathhouse every Friday for the fudge packers fellowship fandango.
The LA basin has always had a smog problem in the Occidental/Pomona area because the prevailing winds push all pollutants up against the mountains (the cities are located at their foot). Everything from the LA area tends to concentrate there, and in the 1970s the air was terrible, and it still may be. But, it has to do with the geography and winds. You could have the same problem near any city given the same atmospheric and geographic conditions.
We had smog alerts due to thermal inversions here in the southeast due to a similar effect, the “Appalachian wedge.” Not so much anymore, but it’s generally hazy in summer anyway, a photochemical haze.
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