“The air outside right now is at historically polluted levels,” Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington said. (source)All our radically unstable, mentally banjaxed, outhouse of a president could say was:
“It’ll start getting cooler,” Mr. Trump said. “You just watch.”Preznint Hideous Fairy Tale Brain thinks, just like COVID-19, everything will be magically ALLLLLLLL better in no time at all. “You just watch.”
Wade Crowfoot, the secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, told Mr. Trump that he hoped the weather would, indeed, cool.
“I wish science agreed with you,” Mr. Crowfoot said. (source)
His willful, obstinate ignorance and 500 fathoms deep stupidity isn’t shocking by any means but, that anyone who’s not 1%er rich (and in on the grift), continues to support him and believe his puerile platitudes does.
This douchebaggian cretin blames California for not “raking the forests” while making sure the state’s Forest Service is underfunded. Why? Betsy probably needs an eleventh yacht and a third helicopter, Mnuchin’s wife probably needs new clothes and old Wilbur Ross needs another pair of custom made $600 bedroom slippers to wear while he naps through his Dear Leader’s mangled, bloviating, word salad speeches.
Back to the burning though, check out this informative NPR column: West Coast Fires: Climate, Forest Management, Lax Rules, Plenty Of Blame To Go Around.
I can just imagine how much more damage this has wreaked on the lungs of Plague45 survivors. A friend in San Jose told me, late Wednesday, that their air quality was "healthy" (on that day anyway). GOOD.
Yes, I'm from Oregon---cough---cough, and have actually developed a nagging cough, hopefully non Covid. The sun photo you posted is nice. Here we haven't seen the sun for a week. There are just grey clouds of smoke mixed with fog. Kinda the 2020 version of the "Twilight Zone." My favorite episode, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street," was classic scifi. Here the plot line is about various groups of armed white men stopping traffic on remote roads looking for the all powerful Antifa. Social media has been ranting that the Antifa is coming to their remote villages setting fires and looting homes. Not that any of that has happened, but the level of paranoia those rumors generate is concerning. Even though Oregon is a dark blue state, we have more than a few crazies, and the smoky fog has gone to their few functioning Synapses...
ReplyDeleteAnyway back to air quality. Last night we had thunderstorms and a fair amount of rain. The air is improving. Now instead of off the scale hazardous (scale goes to 400 PM2.5, we were at 600), we have merely unhealthy (around 160 PM2.5). Things are improving, I'm hoping the lightning didn't start any new fires...
So how do you go outside when the dog is begging you to go for a walk? Well, double masking helps, and the walks are short, the dog knows she's getting screwed, so there's the extended post dinner time play time. That seems enough for now. Can wait for life to return to normal, you know, when we only had Covid to mask up for and the orange sh*tgibbon to worry about...
Loved the Twilight Zone.
DeleteI REALLY hope your cough vanishes with the smoke.
Your dog is, undoubtedly, enjoying the extra playtime :-)
just like COVID-19, everything will be magically ALLLLLLLL better in no time at all
ReplyDeleteTrump is a rich spoiled brat who has lived his life insulated from reality. Most of the time, he had only to want something and he would get it. So he thinks that's how the world actually works. He seems to think that just because he wants a problem to go away, that means it will.
We've been engulfed in smoke here for more than a week now. On one day it was so thick that the apartment building across the street was just a vague dark shape in the gloom. This morning we finally got some real rain and the smoke has been thinned out -- hopefully it's helping with the fires as well.
Seeing pics of the devastation...I'm just stunned, overwhelmed. I'm VERY happy you're OK!
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