Is there a fireplace going near-by? So early in the morning?
After a short, irritated hack of a cough, I remember.
The smoke from the Big Basin Complex fires — or from one of the other 1000 fires in California — drops to the ground overnight. Red sun at morning, firefighters take warning.
During the day, especially with the afternoon off-shore breezes, there’s no trace of the inferno. But, it in the morning, every morning, the smoke’s back.
The worst effect on our lives is the disruption of my gym schedule as I forego morning exercise bicycle sessions when the air is the dirtiest. Tsk.
But, what fires these must be to blow smoke to our coastal city for so long!
What would a San Francisco resident think 100 or 200 or 1000 years ago? Smoke in the morning. Where’s the fire? Do I run? Go to the coast? Gather the tribe to fight the flames?
21 Century me has no such anxieties. Here’s to Googling for news and and reassurance, the California Department of Forestry firefighters, and Governor Schwarzenegger for keeping the National Guard off border patrol duty so that they’re available for this emergency.
Red Sky Indeed. . . 😉
Look on the bright side of it Galen. . .
The smoke haze from the fires should make for some very nice sunrise and sunset photos for the next little while. Several years ago Quebec had some very large forest fires and, even though they were hundreds of miles north of Montreal, we had a similar situation with heavy smoke haze that smelled of burning wood.