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Old 06-30-2008, 06:02 PM
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think I read the other day that they had something like 800 wildfires started from lightning strikes.

I have a cousin who lives in Redding and the photos that she has been sending are frightening. They are all advised to simply remain indoors for the duration, not to venture outside at all. Imagine if you had pre-existing respiratory conditons......
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Old 06-30-2008, 06:51 PM
 
Location: DC Area, for now
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think I read the other day that they had something like 800 wildfires started from lightning strikes.

I have a cousin who lives in Redding and the photos that she has been sending are frightening. They are all advised to simply remain indoors for the duration, not to venture outside at all. Imagine if you had pre-existing respiratory conditons......
I can believe that. When I heard they had fires in the Siskiyous and Trinity mountains, I knew Redding would be a smoky bowl as those are the mountains surrounding it (I remember from my teen years there). They get a nasty inversion in the summer that makes the air icky without forest fires. It must be really bad now. S OR can't be too pleasant right now either from all the smoke.
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Old 07-01-2008, 11:25 PM
 
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I can believe that. When I heard they had fires in the Siskiyous and Trinity mountains, I knew Redding would be a smoky bowl as those are the mountains surrounding it (I remember from my teen years there). They get a nasty inversion in the summer that makes the air icky without forest fires. It must be really bad now. S OR can't be too pleasant right now either from all the smoke.
Trust me, it's not. Grants Pass is the same as Redding. Literally surrounded by mountains and they're advising us to stay inside too. 5 times the maximum EPA levels for smoke here and we're not even that close to the fires.
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Old 07-02-2008, 09:17 PM
 
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Oregon is in a pretty unpleasant heat wave currently. Down in Southern Oregon we've got thick haze from all the wildfires in California and a wind from the south driving them up this way. I think I read the other day that they had something like 800 wildfires started from lightning strikes.
Portland is hazy and smoky too. My asthma has been having a field day with my lungs. I try to stay indoors. I don't know if it bothers other folks who do not have breathing problems. The weather service is predicting rain. I hope so. I good thunder storm may clear the air.
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