These Times

[forestofglory]

I was going to write a nice post about things I've been enjoying outside, but then last week happened. First we had a heat spell. These are pretty normal in the Bay Area. They are unpleasant because we, like most people around here, don't have AC. So our house gets pretty hot, and its unconformable. In non-pandemic times we can go somewhere else with AC. So this was unpleasant but not to bad.

Then we had thunderstorm. That was weird. Thuderstorms are rare here to start with, and it never rains in the bay area in August. But the lightning started a bunch of wildfire. So now the entire Bay Area and beyond is cover in smoke. We are lucky and its mostly stayed below the "unhealthy" level where we are. But its bad enough that we have to keep the windows closed and limit out door actives. The air smells like smoke. We have a bunch of air purifiers and they are running in all the rooms we normally spend time in. At least now its cooled down so its only smokey instead of hot and smokey.

But I hate this, I hate feeling trapped and helpless. We are living in slow moving climate apocalypse. It seems like this kind of smoke and fire is the new normal. It's been happening every year for the last three years, but this the earliest its happened. The feeling of creeping doom is hard to live with.

Comments

[shadaras]

:/ that suuuucks, I'm sorry.

[lunabee34]

Hugs

That sounds miserable.

[forestofglory]

*hugs back* thank you -- the air is a bit better today at least.

[jesse_the_k]

Sending ice cream & virtual AC.

[forestofglory]

Thank you!

[kimboo_york]

Damn I'm so sorry you have to deal with this! "Slow motion climate apocalypse" is right, and it is terrible. Stay safe!

[forestofglory]

Thanks, the air is a bit better today at least. I took a walk and felt better.

[riventhorn]

I'm over by Sacramento and am feeling the exact same way. I hate not being able to go outside or if I do to have to wear a mask to protect against smoke, not being able to open my window at night to cool down, etc. I feel so angry about all the bad decisions and lack of foresight that are forcing me to live like this. And feeling kind of powerless, honestly, like all I can do is try to mitigate the worst of it. I mean, yes, disasters happen, but this is now a regular occurrence.

[forestofglory]

Yeah, I'm feeling powerless too, and its really hard.

[calissa]

Oh, I'm so sorry, lovely. It's been about six months since I was last in that position and it really sucks. I hope it passes soon.

[lokifan]

The feeling of creeping doom is hard to live with.

...Yeah. :(