PurpleAir

Text conversation with friend this morning:

She:  Is it weird that checking the air quality every day has just become routine?
Me: Not weird but definitely sad that our lives are like this.  I check it constantly too.

Then the conversation goes on to discuss the various shades of worrying colors we're seeing, how pungent is it today, are we going to try going out, etc.

This taken on a walk at 3 p.m.  It's our 24th spare the air day in a row since that lightning storm I blipped in August.  The Martian red of yesterday's skies replaced by the vile particulate filled stuff we've been having in varying concentrations for weeks now. 

6 p.m. AQI is 300

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For the record, the CZU fire as of this morning is now 84% contained, 86,509 acres. 

But we have many fires raging in California, all contributing to this ongoing situation.  Oregon and Washington State, in the past few days, have had fires, too.

Living with fire seasons is a fact and un-ignorable.  I've blipped fire seasons before, but this one is beyond the previous beyond that we all thought in 2018.

I was thinking of my friend who sold her house this year in Nevada City, traumatized by the fire in Paradise, she moved up to Sequim, WA, because she just could not live through another fire season in California.  The Olympic Peninsula is now swathed in smoke from the fires in the region.