View of the Lincoln Memorial from Arlington, Virginia, at 1:45 pm, June 8, 2023

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. this reminds me of when we had the yosemitie rim fire and others a

number of years a go. wore a particle mask because of heart problems with the smoke. cough ,cough.

[appalachiablue]

2. Thanks for posting, wow

[GreenWave]

3. When business go unregulated...

[BigmanPigman]

4. That is what it looked like during the Witch and Cedars Fires

in San Diego in 2002 and 2007. It looked like that for 5 days each time.

I woke up at noon on Sunday morning (slept late) and I thought I had slept all day since it looked like sunset when I woke up. Schools were closed for a week during each fire. Ashes were falling from the sky, looking like large, grey snowflakes. Creepy. Only a change in wind stopped one fire, the other burned all the was to the coast. Thousands of homes/structures were destroyed. Several fellow teachers lost their homes.

I wore a mask when I was teaching (this was way before Covid but I knew it was not healthy for my lungs). I got odd looks but didn't care.