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Yeah honestly as someone who lived through a lot of smoke in the PNW, I was in a weird way kinda glad the east coast was getting a solid piece of it earlier this year. More people need to know what the fuck going on and they're way too frequently spared from it over there.

When it's bad it's like apocalyptic bad, people don't understand.

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cubedsteaks@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
a few years ago when Portland had all those fires, I walked out of work and the sky was literally RED. It looked like a fucking bomb got dropped here with all the smoke in the air.

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- nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah I remember one year where it was so bad in Seattle you couldn't see across Elliott Bay in Seattle to view either Bainbridge Island or West Seattle. When a ferry or water taxi would get even like 1/3 of the way across the water it disappeared into white space. The sun was blood red for 2 weeks. Just insanely creepy.
  
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Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ok well let me provide some contrast please.

I live in Snohomish, but I’m originally from upstate NY. I went back yo NY this year for family, when things there were unusually smokey for once.

IT WAS WAY WORSE THAT IVE EVER SEEN IT IN NORTH SEATTLE, EVEN THOUGH THE AQI FIGURED WERE LOWER. Add to that, people don’t know the most basic things about coping woth smoke there, like making box fan + furnace filters.

So yeah they complained a lot because it was truly very very bad. I sincerely hope we don’t have to deal with that becuase in the 12 years I’ve been in PNW, it’s NEVER been close to as bad as NY earlier this year.

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- somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  AQI in north seattle is currently around 100 and you can taste wood smoke.
  
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  - Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Can confirm.
    
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