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2021-08-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

[Not just a bong song] Smoke on the water: Lake Tahoe now has the worst air quality in the WORLD thanks to wildfires with locals warned to stay indoors

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 07:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 All those merry arsonists — whether mentally ill, vicious, or Black Bloc — bear responsibility for making the annual fire season much worse, abroad as well as domestically.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-26 08:57|| 2021-08-26 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I live 100 miles north of there and can confirm litterally months of terrible air quality.

Posted by Secret Master 2021-08-26 11:29|| 2021-08-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I live 11 miles due east of Lake Tahoe down in the Carson Valley and at times our air quality index hit 487, and Lake Tahoe on last Tuesday hit 533. It was like you had smoked two packs of old style Camel cigarettes the night before in a closed room. At 2:30 pn that day the streetlights came on and the sun was a dull orange ball.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-26 12:35|| 2021-08-26 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 So sorry to hear about it NoMoreBS. We were up at Round Hill the first week this month and it started getting smoky from Dixie and Grass Valley fires. Sounds horrible. Lucky the Markleeville fire didn't burn much north of Holbrook Jct.

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-26 13:35|| 2021-08-26 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Folks, if you haven't had our street lights come on at 2 in the afternoon, this is pretty bad.

Keep on top of your HVAC system air filters.

Maybe this helps, dust storm trick; and not sure what the weather is out there, but turning off the HVAC and running fans through wet textiles like old bed sheets, the theory not importing more smoke (dirt) and somewhat filtering what is already inside.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 13:52|| 2021-08-26 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 running fans through wet textiles like old bed sheets

Swamp coolers

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 14:48|| 2021-08-26 14:48|| Front Page Top

#7 It was like you had smoked two packs of old style Camel cigarettes the night before in a closed room.

You worked a TOC, NoMore?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 14:52|| 2021-08-26 14:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Swamp Coolers, yes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 15:24|| 2021-08-26 15:24|| Front Page Top

#9 11A,35A,54A, and an intimate association with a TOC, bad coffee, 2.5kw generators on the 557 and endless search for the location of the 6 actual!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-26 15:49|| 2021-08-26 15:49|| Front Page Top

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