It means a lot of us in the Western states are trying really hard to be kind when we want to say "Now you know what we've lived through the last five years, mind letting us do some serious fire prevention: put roads/into your precious roadless areas, clearcut strips for fire breaks, and get all the beatle kill logged and out?"
Instead we're trying to recommend things like "Pick up a Hepa filter system at the store for one room and everyone asthmatic hide in that room, change your forced air system filter and keep the forced air on, stay inside unless you absolutely have to go out, call your doc and pharmacy and get your inhalers in order now."
But a bit of "Yeah, serves y'all right, jerks," is definitely in our hearts. (Westerners by and large blame Easterners and the Urban West Coast for stupid federal and state lands policies that enable large burns.) Schadenfraude is bad for our souls, but oh, so tasty.
I hope you're right, but the orange clouds we lived under in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 do not seem to have been any sort of omen.
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Re: Big Orange Cloud
Date: 2023-06-10 06:05 am (UTC)Instead we're trying to recommend things like "Pick up a Hepa filter system at the store for one room and everyone asthmatic hide in that room, change your forced air system filter and keep the forced air on, stay inside unless you absolutely have to go out, call your doc and pharmacy and get your inhalers in order now."
But a bit of "Yeah, serves y'all right, jerks," is definitely in our hearts.
(Westerners by and large blame Easterners and the Urban West Coast for stupid federal and state lands policies that enable large burns.) Schadenfraude is bad for our souls, but oh, so tasty.
I hope you're right, but the orange clouds we lived under in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 do not seem to have been any sort of omen.
BoysMom