Community Chat

[SeaMaiden]

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@DiAnne wrote:

@wagirl

I am with you.  Where is our rain!  My lawn is brown, plants are drooping.  It has been too hot to enjoy the patio.  

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@DiAnne. Yes. I am scared to see my water bill this time😮.  I have just had to water my plants and trees.  The poor Rodies have suffered so and I must water them.  

[trenet]

@wagirl

When I first saw this thread, I thought one of the several volcanoes had erupted!  

Don't hesitate to wear a particle mask.

Good luck to all.

[shoekitty]

The smoke and ash issue is really problematic.  Especially with the high heat we have had.  I know my granddaughters in LA complain of sore throat, cough, feeling ill. One has a touch of asthma so it is twice as bad.  This heat is friend to no one.  Anyone can deal with a day.  But the hot nights, and day after day of high temps wear on the body and soul

I know Seattle people are very envoronmental, and enjoy pretty clean air.  The high heat 

Has to be a shock to their lifestyle, wild life and trees and such.  I am in a hot area of California, we hit 114.  We usually get cool nights so the house cools down for the next hot day ...and you can get through it.  But this heat wave has been whiner weather.  I for one, have had it.  I hate the humid, warm nights of 64. The walls in my house are hot!!  The floors, furniture are warm.  Good Lord, my cosmetics, like skin care were runny.  We dont have Ac, and even with our hot Augusts and Septembers, it hasnt been quite like this.  Whine 11... Call me a whaaaaaaaam bulance

[SUHsE]

I'm in Spokane, very hazy, here, too, Our air quality is rated very poor to hazardous. 94 today and tomorrow, but then a significant cool,down on the way..

As bad as the air qualitity is, the destruction from the fires, is a nightmare.  Multnomah Falls fire is heartbreaking; the destruction of such beauty, and the lost wildlife!

[wagirl]

shoekitty---no you're not a whine baby--you should hear all of us here in wASHINGton during the many months of grey rain and gloom---but this smoke and ash and humidity and heat are all pretty new around here--but of course you can't blame climate change, right??? Ain't no such thing!!! supposed to start clearing out today and then back to normal later this week with maybe rain. big sigh!!!!!!

[dex]

@shoekitty Sorry you are suffering but I had to laugh at your Whine 11.We all need a cool down and some rain to put out these fires..too much summer this year for those of us who prefer cooler days.

[RainCityWoman]

We've had summer fires in the past, but not with the heat spells that we've had this year. Yesterday in Seattle with fires east of us, south of us and north of us, the air was the worst I have ever breathed. I had to use both of my inhalers, one of which I rarely use. I coughed, sneezed and wheezed all day, and I wasn't out in it for very long. Last night I had to close all my windows and today I'm leaving them closed. The sky today looks the same as yesterday which had a very eerie sun trying to break through the thick atmosphere with no luck. At one point I looked out at my backyard, and there was one very narrow streak of orange cutting a swath in one corner. At first I thought the plumbers clearing out my sewer pipes had spilled chemicals, but it wasn't. It was an attempt from the sun to break through the thick chemical/smoke filled atmosphere. It was still very hot and that held the fire retardant chemicals and smoke in the atmosphere to the point one could almost reach out and touch the air by the handfuls. I've NEVER seen Seattle like this, and I am praying for a huge rain that drenches us completely. 

[RainCityWoman]

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@trenet wrote:

@wagirl

When I first saw this thread, I thought one of the several volcanoes had erupted!  

Don't hesitate to wear a particle mask.

Good luck to all.

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I don't remember it being this bad when Mt Saint Helens erupted, but to be fair, Seattle kind of got by passed when the wind currents took most of the volcanic ash to eastern Washington.  I'm having a house guest coming in Saturday from Southern Cal. I felt kind of ridiculous, but I had to warn a resident of Southern Cal about our air quality. Hopefully, by Saturday, we will have had rain.

[SeaMaiden]

The air is better today, Wednesday....no ash, no smoke smell.  But   Still enough smoke to make the  Sun an eerie blood red today .....really strange looking because of the smoke in the sky...here is how it looks

[ALRATIBA]

A friend of mine lives in Maple Falls ... a couple of hours from Seattle.  She said that the heat has been brutal this summer.