Well ...

It's been several weeks since I wrote about living in slow moving climate apocalypse and things have not really let up. Well, we have had days that aren't too hot and smoking to go outside. So that is technically an improvement.

This last week has been especially unpleasant though. This weekend there was record breaking heatwave in the Bay Area. Our house is built on a hill with the living space on the top floor. Heat rises so it gets pretty hot up there. As mentioned we don't have AC, but generally we can open the windows. But this last weekend it was too smoky. It was miserable. We all lay around in puddles on the bottom two floors.

Then it cooled off, and we had one ok day.

But yesterday was scary. At 7am I noticed that it hadn't gotten light in the morning, and it continued like that all day. The Sky was scary red color, and it never got lighter than twilight. My mom remarked that it was worse than the Hills Fire. Apparently we where experiencing "fire thunderstorms". The air quality at ground level was actually not that bad, but there was so much smoke above us that it blocked out the sun.

Today things are lighter, like still dark, but a very cloudy day instead of sunset all day. However the smoke has started dropping lower, and the air quality is way worse. I'm not sure that's better. I'm really struggling mentally -- everything is just so stressful and scary.