JSngry Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 Had some coworkers who had to evacuate last night. Now they're evacuating Malibu. Thoughts and prayers and general positive mental energies being sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 Terrifying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 The Camp Fire burning through the town of Paradise, Calif., as seen from space on Nov. 8, 2018. Photo: NASA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 In SF we're about 150 miles from this fire, but the smoke has hit the Bay Area big time. LOTS of people are wearing masks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 8 hours ago, BFrank said: In SF we're about 150 miles from this fire, but the smoke has hit the Bay Area big time. LOTS of people are wearing masks. Out of curiosity I compared air quality here and in Beijing - comparable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matthew Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 19 hours ago, BFrank said: In SF we're about 150 miles from this fire, but the smoke has hit the Bay Area big time. LOTS of people are wearing masks. Also very bad air quality here in the Napa area, AQI is 181. Fires are scary things, they travel so fast and destroy so much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Chiming in--this has been pretty worrying. As a lifelong Californian, the peril feels very real and, if it makes sense, real like never before. The 2017 fires got close to my family both down in LA and up in Plumas County; the 2018 fires are also very close but coming from different directions. I have very vivid memories of a miserable holiday season spent jogging in desperate, ashen weather and mainlining Joe McPhee albums like they were the only thing alleviating the strangling touch of the LA air. BFrank is not underselling things. The air in the Bay area is really, really bad--maybe worse than last year. I hopped out of an elevator at the hospital the other day only to find an elderly lady wearing a full-on gas mask. Activities are more or less limited to indoor stuff (not so hard for music work), but a week into this air quality and I'm feeling the effects both inside and out. Underreported (due to lesser significance) is that we had fires out in the East Bay the other week--they were contained with immediacy, but with the climate this time of year I'd advise any fellow locals to assemble something resembling an emergency plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipi Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Can confirm Bay Area air quality is pretty bad. On the plus side, we're totally ahead of the curve on the whole menthol cigarette thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 This is what it was like on Saturday, which has been the worst for smokey skies in SF, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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