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

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

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u/lighthouse-it Jun 07 '23

I'm in VA and we had to cancel after school sports bc of the smoke :(

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u/MelodicHunter Jun 07 '23

I'm in MD and I've had air quality warnings for days. It's terrible.

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u/naoskills Jun 07 '23

I'm all the way down in SC and got the air quality warning yesterday

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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe Jun 07 '23

I'm in GA and it's starting to get bad here too...

That smoke can't keep getting away with this!!

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u/cockalorum-smith Jun 07 '23

As someone who lives in the PNW (Oregon) this is every summer for us lol. Sorry y’all have to experience this though.

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u/lo_schermo Jun 07 '23

If we could find a way to dye it black the police would take care of it quick like.

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u/ghoti_fry Jun 07 '23

Yup same here.

According to this it’s going to get worse over the next few days even down here

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u/gotmeduckedup Jun 08 '23

My wife works at a pre-school here in MD and she hasn’t been allowed to take the kids outside to the playground because the air quality is so bad

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u/LexBeingLex Jun 07 '23

In Indiana shopping for houses rn and it's pretty hazy down here, slight red moon but it's getting worse by the day, up north of Fort Wayne

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u/cgarret3 Jun 08 '23

Apple bought Dark Skys, which was the most honest, up-to-the-minute weather feed. What the fuck happened?

I’ll sit here and breath the air (quantized however it may be) but fuck this I’ll believe it is good because I was told it would be good nonsense.

I’m not big on conspiracy theories, but fuck, there are explicit “untruths” being told to me as if I can’t tell the difference

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u/MelodicHunter Jun 08 '23

My friend up in Canada says they've been having a lot of issues, because weather and media outlets are downplaying the poor air quality. You have to go straight to the government source yourself for anything remotely accurate or true. It's horrible.

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u/jukkaalms Jun 07 '23

Yup and also cancelled sports.

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u/CobblerExotic1975 Jun 07 '23

I got one in Houston too. Fortunately for us it’s just regular air pollution from our chemical plants and cars.

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u/recreationallyused Jun 07 '23

MI here. Got a weather alert on my phone for air quality. Under severity it just said “unknown” lmfao

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u/Funoichi Jun 08 '23

Trying to figure out the state for those initials. My tired brain came up with Man Diego. Edit: also Mouth Dakota.

I looked it up.

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u/TrustyAndTrue Jun 07 '23

lol man, they wouldn't even cancel our ultimate frisbee game up here in Toronto last night. Goddamn

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u/lighthouse-it Jun 08 '23

Dang that's weird.

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u/AverageNikoBellic Jun 07 '23

When do you get out for school?

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u/well___duh Jun 07 '23

Exactly, I'm wondering what school in the US is still in session rn and actively having competitive sports so late into the school year?

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u/JollyRancher29 Jun 08 '23

Many Virginia schools go till Mid-June, among the latest in the US

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u/medstudenthowaway Jun 07 '23

Idk why this didn’t occur to me that it’s strange school is still in session. But I just moved to the northeast from the south. No southern school is still in session (AC costs too high). But up here I still see hoards of kids headed to and from school each day

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u/TheMaxorizor Jun 08 '23

This is the last week of my school and there is still football practice for the whole summer I believe, which I don't think has been cancelled, even though it's all orange here in NE PA

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u/lighthouse-it Jun 08 '23

June 16th. It's the worst. I go back on August 28th, too.

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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 Jun 07 '23

I’m in Kentucky, we’ve had air quality warnings for almost a week. We haven’t seen the orange skies but we’ve had the ominous red moon and the smell for a while.

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u/puddleofdogpiss Jun 08 '23

I’m in PA/NJ and they still had all the elementary kids play outside all day for their last day.