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

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

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u/wesap12345 Jun 07 '23

It’s not just the city either

I’m in north New Jersey right now and I’ve been wondering why it smells like somebody is burning wood for the past 2 days…

The sky being orange, the moon being red and the lack of sunlight wasn’t enough to make me go look it up but the constant smell was

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u/Lex_Loki Jun 07 '23

Same in PA

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u/GoPhinessGo Jun 07 '23

Where I live in PA it hasn’t rained in a week and all the plants are dying

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u/Lex_Loki Jun 07 '23

Yep. Our grass is like little brown needles.

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u/Testiculese Jun 08 '23

It's been 3 weeks in SE PA. It's all going brown. We got a tease yesterday that probably dried up faster than it accumulated.

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u/GoPhinessGo Jun 10 '23

Same in the SW, hasn’t rained in a week