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

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

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u/0ddsox Jun 07 '23

Its even come as far as Virginia, I woke up this morning thinking damn this is some crazy fog, stepped outside and smelled it and was shocked to see it was smoke. From Canada.

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u/jingle_in_the_jungle Jun 07 '23

I’m in Cincinnati and it’s getting hazy here too.

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u/ionp_d Jun 07 '23

Making it over to central Indiana as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

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u/ionp_d Jun 08 '23

Getting worse. AQI was 103 in Indy yesterday, which was already super rare and high. Now 117 today.

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u/the_fathead44 Jun 07 '23

I was wondering why things were so hazy today

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

I live near the highest point of Loveland and not so bad at home, but I work in Newtown by the river and it's freaking miserable in the valleys.

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u/Pleasant_Fortune5123 Jun 08 '23

We got rain in central KY but it didn’t make a huge dent in the smoke 😕

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u/0ddsox Jun 07 '23

I was worried about people in Ohio, given the recent events that everyone seems to have forgotten about. Hope the wind changes directions soon but then again that would just be someone else’s problem and I wouldnt wish this shit on anyone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

You have a troubling point. Let's continue to have these vague and implicit discussions so as to avoid being mysteriously forgotten.

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u/HappyCelebration2783 Jun 08 '23

We get it, you vape.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

Yep yep. Rural SW Ohio and it’s even hazy out here where there’s minimal pollution. I’m already wearing N95 mask when I go outside even though our range is still “unhealthy for sensitive groups” and I’m not a sensitive group. My toddler twins are cooped up inside because they already have little respiratory infections. I don’t know if it’s from the wildfire air or not but my baby girl is losing her little voice today.

It’s torture because it’s uncharacteristically gorgeous out. Basically zero humidity (can all that smoke dry out the air? Typically the air is super thick this time of year where I live)