At 5am Friday according to this site we are in the yellow! http://lrapa.org/216/Todays-Current-Air-Quality
And on the same site this was the data: http://lrapa.org/219/Data-Summary
Which has us in the GREEN zone.
I popped out at 3am (back to bad habits) and the air smelled what I remember as fresh and damp. I heard a lot of thunder last night, but fell asleep before the rain started. Then I woke up around midnight and heard the falling of life.
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| Green = Life |
An email from my brother (Jim) today said they had visited their untouched by fire house, but will stay at their coast house (south of Newport) until the curfew is lifted. Their Springfield home is on Tonga Lane, just off Booth Kelly Road.
I am looking forward to feeling more myself now that the outside is no longer toxic.
Mitigating the effects of warming and drought will require local solutions (where and how we build and better forest management) as well as nationally mandated carbon reduction activities. IF we start NOW (decades behind when it would have been easier, more effective and less costly) we might be able to “pull our cookies out of the fire”. (see definition below – revised above to reflect a more precious baked commodity).