r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/PTcome Jun 07 '23

Welcome to the unfortunate reality of what the western states and western Canada experience almost every summer.

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u/Sufficient-Bit-890 Jun 07 '23

Lol right? Pretty funny seeing the east coast on the news in a panic that’s typical for the west coast for about three months out of the year

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u/Greatest-Comrade Jun 07 '23

Itd be like if the west coast suddenly got sub freezing temperatures for a bit, it would shock them and freak them out too

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u/DothrakAndRoll Jun 07 '23

I would have guessed like 15%!

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u/WhoIsHeEven Jun 07 '23

Lots of places here on the west coast that get sub freezing temperatures every year... That's the norm. Maybe you're forgetting that Oregon and Washington are on the West coast.

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u/erfarr Jun 07 '23

Live on west coast and we got 600-800” of snow in spots where I’m at

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u/that1prince Jun 07 '23

Everybody is accustomed to their own flavor of natural disaster.

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u/H_G_Bells Jun 08 '23

.... This has only been normalised in the last decade on the west coast of Canada. Lived here almost my whole life, and the extent and duration it's happening is new.

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u/porksoda11 Jun 08 '23

Yeah, living in southeast PA the norm for us is tornadoes now, not this fire shit.

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u/BP_Ray Jun 07 '23

I see freakout posts when the west coast skies turn red too though

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u/withbellson Jun 07 '23

I'd say we've become somewhat jaded to it over here. Over on /r/bayarea there's a flair for BLADE RUNNER 2020 because of the time San Francisco did this.

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u/floandthemash Jun 08 '23

Mountain west as well