I guess I picked a bad day to rototill and reseed the backyard.

[Mark Wein]

I figured it was a bad idea yesterday when we started getting smoke around here. Its also going to be 98 degrees today too.

 

[dmn23]

Ugh. We got some fires in NM but nothing like the horrors you guys have to deal with. Mojo.

 

[Mark Wein]

Ugh. We got some fires in NM but nothing like the horrors you guys have to deal with. Mojo.

I was just telling my wife that I don't remember there being so many "states of emergency" when I was a kid.

 

[reverend1]

I was just telling my wife that I don't remember there being so many "states of emergency" when I was a kid.

There's a very good reason for that.

 

[mongooz]

I was just telling my wife that I don't remember there being so many "states of emergency" when I was a kid.

i remember that we used to get snow almost up to my waist, but i was 6 then, so maybe that makes sense.

 

[reverend1]

i remember that we used to get snow almost up to my waist, but i was 6 then, so maybe that makes sense.

I think it was four years ago, we had snow up to our waist and it was -35 for a week.

 

[mongooz]

I think it was four years ago, we had snow up to our waist and it was -35 for a week.

it has never been 35 below zero in NW Ohio. the record is 20 below, set in 2015.

 

[Mark Wein]

I think it was four years ago, we had snow up to our waist and it was -35 for a week.

Ohio or Siberia?

 

[reverend1]

Ohio or Siberia?

Ohio, we had a level 4 snow emergency (no one is allowed to be on the roads except emergency personal and hospital employees. or face arrest) for almost two weeks. I was in HELL.

 

[Mark Wein]

Ohio, we had a level 4 snow emergency (no one is allowed to be on the roads except emergency personal and hospital employees. or face arrest) for almost two weeks. I was in HELL.

Damn.

When I was a kid, we would have "Smog days' here in California. The air was literally so bad that they wouldn't let kids outside to play at school and there were advisories to stay inside. As they got pollution under control that stuff went away but apparently it was even worse in the 1960's with the Kaiser Steel plant pumping out crap into the valleys and other pre-emission regulation here in SoCal. Just the garbage in the air from the fires that we're having so much more frequently is giving me flashbacks. I need to go hose the ash off of my car tomorrow when it all settles down.

 

[reverend1]

Damn.

When I was a kid, we would have "Smog days' here in California. The air was literally so bad that they wouldn't let kids outside to play at school and there were advisories to stay inside. As they got pollution under control that stuff went away but apparently it was even worse in the 1960's with the Kaiser Steel plant pumping out crap into the valleys and other pre-emission regulation here in SoCal. Just the garbage in the air from the fires that we're having so much more frequently is giving me flashbacks. I need to go hose the ash off of my car tomorrow when it all settles down.

Sounds like the last volcanic eruption we had in CR. You could hardly breath, and inches of ash covered everything.

 

[bsman]

Air quality here (Santa Clara) is moderate (PM2.5 @ 79) right now, and I'm hoping it either improves or doesn't get any worse because this is my next three days (Santa Clara Sporting Invitational Tournament):

Even though the games only consist of 35-minute halves, that's still a lot of running if I'll be swallowing smoke particles the whole time!

 

[Denverdave]

Yoiks!

We had all our wildfires in the late spring. We have had a fair amount of rain so that is not as much a problem this year. Grapefruit sized hail has been though. Same part of town got nailed in June, this this past Monday. Did major damage to the zoo as well.

 

[tiger roach]

Crap!

When I saw the thread title I immediately thought, "this must be another wildfire thread."

 

[Kerouac]

Ohio, we had a level 4 snow emergency (no one is allowed to be on the roads except emergency personal and hospital employees. or face arrest) for almost two weeks. I was in HELL.

I live in the wrong part of Ohio. Which is kinda a given.

 

[reverend1]

I live in the wrong part of Ohio. Which is kinda a given.

Is there really a right part?

 

[CBHScott]

Is there really a right part?

Yes

 

[Honkridge]

IMO it's never a bad day to rototill and reseed the backyard

 

[Bob411]

Sounds like the perfect time to rototill the back yard. Front yard and the two sides too. Firebreak.

 

[bsman]

Yoiks!

We had all our wildfires in the late spring. We have had a fair amount of rain so that is not as much a problem this year. Grapefruit sized hail has been though. Same part of town got nailed in June, this this past Monday. Did major damage to the zoo as well.

I think grapefruit-sized hail qualifies as comets!