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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: Frank and Fred on September 11, 2020, 09:43:26 AM
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How's everyone holding up?
I had eight days of skateboarding in a row end on Weds as yesterday the air quality in Portland was so fucked it just didn't seem like a good idea...
Half a million Oregonians evacuated? What's next? The Big one?
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Shit sucks. Going outside sucks. A bunch of my friends have had to evacuate.
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Yeah, we are offering up our basement to my wife's coworkers.
Weather conditions seem to be slowly improving though. Better winds, cooler temps...
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Yeah, looks like we might get some rain on Tuesday. That would really help.
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im in phx and our sky is all fogged out from this shit . can’t imagine what you coasters are goin through
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Good luck, fellows.
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I'm in southern Ca. The past 3 or 4 days it looked like dusk all day long. I hope all of you are in safe situations. Nature can be devastating.
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Good luck, fellows.
Yeah, take care. I saw the Insta posts of SF when the sky was a deep orange hue in the morning a few days ago. Must be incredibly stressful along with everything else happening. The US has had such a tumultuous year, and it's not over yet.
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This year continues to one up itself every week. All we're missing is an earthquake to close the year...Here's San Jose a couple days ago when everything was orange
(https://i.redd.it/sokys8b8d7m51.jpg)
Even the smoke from the SCU fire bordering San Jose wasn't as bad as this.
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I was running a leaf blower at a spot yesterday to clear ash and a man in his late 50s on an e-bike called me a dumb fuck.
He wasn’t wrong.
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I took this on Weds, from the east side of Mt Tabor looking at Mt Hood. Thurs onward has just been a light orange haze dawn until dusk.
(https://i.imgur.com/cQXQjON.jpg)
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The fire is 2 miles from our house in LA. It’s not burning towards homes as of now but the air is horrible. Inside the house smells like a campfire. The fire started a week ago and it’s still 6% contained. In some places the smoke is so thick that the firefighters can’t drop water from above. The estimate for full containment is mid oct.
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I was running a leaf blower at a spot yesterday to clear ash and a man in his late 50s on an e-bike called me a dumb fuck.
He wasn’t wrong.
I skated for about 45 minutes this morning in Seattle. The air is pretty bad but I had a mask on. Still probably wasn't the best idea. At least I have an air purifier in my apartment.
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I was running a leaf blower at a spot yesterday to clear ash and a man in his late 50s on an e-bike called me a dumb fuck.
He wasn’t wrong.
I skated for about 45 minutes this morning in Seattle. The air is pretty bad but I had a mask on. Still probably wasn't the best idea. At least I have an air purifier in my apartment.
damn cant believe you skated in this shit. im north of seattle and am definitely not gonna touch my board til it clears up. did you see anyone else out skating? i kind of want to drive by a skatepark just to see if there's any masochists out there skating
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I'm tempted to go a for a few quick flat ground tricks as I'm losing my fucking mind....
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I was running a leaf blower at a spot yesterday to clear ash and a man in his late 50s on an e-bike called me a dumb fuck.
He wasn’t wrong.
I skated for about 45 minutes this morning in Seattle. The air is pretty bad but I had a mask on. Still probably wasn't the best idea. At least I have an air purifier in my apartment.
I didn't see anyone else skating but I was at a street spot. I probably shouldn't have done it but I needed to get out of the house for a bit. I'm unemployed and indoors most of the time other than skating. I did start to feel a little tired and short of breath so I wouldn't recommend it.
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I'm on the north coast of california and we've got massive, moving fires in every direction but west. All the trimmigrants are down from the hills and in town this week because ganja farms are burning like everything else. I was doing the brakes on my car today and i feel like i huffed a tail pipe. Shits awful.
Hope y'all in evac zones are hanging in.
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Live in Seattle and worked outside the past few days. Feels pretty fucked to not get off during this smoke on top of the pandemic. Guess that’s capitalism baby...
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Hellride
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7VVSjJT_d/?igshid=162rchkgwohdd
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hope all you pals in the area and friends and family stay safe!
EDIT: damn, looks like fucking mordor in sf, holy shit.
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Hellride
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7VVSjJT_d/?igshid=162rchkgwohdd
hard to get one's head around that being the sky, let alone it at around 11:30 am
Detroit sending love and prayers for all y'all out there on the west coast
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I took this on Weds, from the east side of Mt Tabor looking at Mt Hood. Thurs onward has just been a light orange haze dawn until dusk.
(https://i.imgur.com/cQXQjON.jpg)
At least on that day the smoke was still high in the sky. Now with it settled visibility is like a couple of blocks.
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My chest hurts.
One of my best friends is the fire chief in Detroit, Or. it’s so fucked. I haven’t been blowing him up because he’s obviously mad busy, but we’re all worried about him. I shot him a text basically saying “you good?” at least he gave a 👍.
My family has a cabin up in Berry Creek, near lake oroville, it’s gone. Not that big of a deal, just a small cabin and 40 acres. It’s just scary to think about because there’s no phone and no cell reception there, and you have to 4wd in. If we were up there we’d have no way of knowing. It’s a few miles from Bidwell bridge.
(https://resize-indiatvnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/resize.indiatvnews.com/en/resize/newbucket/1200_-/2020/09/california-fire-ap4-1599735791.jpg)
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We have like the fifth worst air quality in whole world here in Vancouver right now .....it seems kinda unfair considering the fire are so far away.....but honestly...our do gooder smug faces deserved it.....at little bit at least...
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We have like the fifth worst air quality in whole world here in Vancouver right now .....it seems kinda unfair considering the fire are so far away.....but honestly...our do gooder smug faces deserved it.....at little bit at least...
I’m in San Jose and my overall mood was affected by all this smoke and ash....sucks I’m looking into a air purifier/ probably sold out everywhere
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Stay safe peoples,
I'm in Adelaide, Australia and while we're the other side of the world we're pretty much looking at what we're gonna be seeing come bushfire season in a few months.
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We have like the fifth worst air quality in whole world here in Vancouver right now .....it seems kinda unfair considering the fire are so far away.....but honestly...our do gooder smug faces deserved it.....at little bit at least...
Yeah...if anyone wasn't wearing a mask...they are now....we had the worst in the world today! Honestly nothing is burning so I t could be worse for us but yeah, pretty suffocating and stressful. We've had it pretty good with COVID being able the skate alone but this makes it tough....
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Rained very briefly in PDX this morning... Such a tease. We are sill in 'Hazardous air' mode. Yesterday, we nearly creeped towards 'very unhealthy.'
Hopefully by the end of the week it will be safe to go outside... insanity....
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I took this on Weds, from the east side of Mt Tabor looking at Mt Hood. Thurs onward has just been a light orange haze dawn until dusk.
(https://i.imgur.com/cQXQjON.jpg)
At least on that day the smoke was still high in the sky. Now with it settled visibility is like a couple of blocks.
Yep, not really a good way to get photos at this point. That cloud at the top just settled down and is sitting on us. I did briefly see the sun and a few cloud formations yesterday but they quickly disappeared.
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Well, the sun came out today and i've got a hella sore throat from wrenching my ride for a few hours. We get slammed with smoke every year on the north coast of california, but man, this is gross. Aside from the climate induced fires a barn with 187 tons of hay burned for 10 or so days, a slash pile at a lumber yard up the road caught on fire and has burned for close to 48 hours now. And 45 says "I think science doesn't know." fuck this shit.
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My old station on the Mt. Hood got pretty close to being burned over, along with the bunk houses that I used to stay in.
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This smoke is the worst... Fucking Trump gutting the Forest Service and National Park Services, blaming poor forest management on the states when most of the land is federally owned is so fucking evil. A lot of these fires are not even forest fires but brush and grass fires and his supporters are blaming everything entirely on arsons and not the fucking weather and temperature.
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Cali has got it bad again. Anyone else stuck in this hotboxed atmosphere?
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Cali has got it bad again. Anyone else stuck in this hotboxed atmosphere?
Shit isn't on fire yet down here at the bottom of California but we all know it's coming
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQQ6Z8KZXo/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet (https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQQ6Z8KZXo/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet)
Wild fires raging in a few places throughout Greece
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNFIRhKdMy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNFIRhKdMy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
As well as in the Northern suburbs of Athens
Breathing all this shit in the past few days sucks, any advice besides wearing a mask?
Thankfully looks like most people evacuated in time, and the fires at least around Athens have been contained.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQQ6Z8KZXo/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet (https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQQ6Z8KZXo/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet)
Wild fires raging in a few places throughout Greece
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNFIRhKdMy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNFIRhKdMy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
As well as in the Northern suburbs of Athens
Breathing all this shit in the past few days sucks, any advice besides wearing a mask?
Thankfully looks like most people evacuated in time, and the fires at least around Athens have been contained.
Masks are your friend, dude. Wet bandana style face covering can feel nice too. get some herbal teas that are support throat and lung health. stay safe!
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Cali has got it bad again. Anyone else stuck in this hotboxed atmosphere?
Shit isn't on fire yet down here at the bottom of California but we all know it's coming
we've got a steady stream of fire refugees coming into northern Humboldt over this past week. lots more people, more traffic, etc. I'm a good 90 minutes drive away from any fire and our cars are heavily sprinkled with ash. Air quality is pretty gross but nothing compared to last September. When I was up in Shasta County a week ago, there were a few days when being outside was a total wash due to smoke in the air.
Honestly, when my throat and lungs are hurting I can't tell if it's from air quality/smoke inhalation, pulling the fuel tank/lines on the van, or the delta variant. (trying to joke a bit here, but kinda serious).
stay safe homies.
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Step up yo air purifier game @everyone
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Those Greek shots are crazy, wow