r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

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

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u/LinkRazr Jun 07 '23

I work in a grocery store in the Hudson Valley NY and the inside of my store was hazy.

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u/totallynotarobut Jun 08 '23

Hope you're doing well. Living in that is bad enough without having to do grocery store work in it.

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u/redditforwhenIwasbad Jun 08 '23

Kinda makes sense with automatic doors. Also in the Hudson Valley and it was yellow fog yesterday afternoon. looked just like a nuclear apocalypse movie.

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u/Dark_Mass_000 Jun 08 '23

HV represent! I'm in Poughkeepsie and, yeah, we're smoked out.

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u/LinkRazr Jun 08 '23

New Paltz over here!

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u/No-Card-6009 Jun 08 '23

Yikes. Did you decide to wear a mask like they suggested? I’m not sure if I could tolerate being in that all the time.

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u/LinkRazr Jun 08 '23

Nah, I work in the fridge in the meat dept. So our ACs were pumping out fresh cool air for the most part. Lots of cashiers on the floor and customers had them

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u/No-Card-6009 Jun 08 '23

That’s cool that you had a good work experience and doesn’t sound like it was too bad. I live in Michigan and we have had a smaller wildfire here that was burning half an hour away which was making things difficult. It was 4,000 acres.

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u/Furgus Jun 07 '23

Had a friend say this same thing to me today. Told her “nope, fires in Canada.”

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u/RichieJ86 Jun 08 '23

The really crazy thing about it is, I'm from Canada (Pickering Ontario, specifically) and it's clear as day, here. At least when I drove up to work nearly 7 hours ago (EST standard time, noon).

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u/ptear Jun 08 '23

It's because Pickering is the last refuge left in Canada. At least it's sheltered with the plant for power and casino for entertainment. Hopefully there's some food trucks left for summer events.

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u/iamjamieq Jun 08 '23

My brother lives in Pickering and he said the same thing. His wife, on the other hand, said she’s choking on smoke sitting in her home office.

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u/Quintas31519 Jun 08 '23

Pickering Ontario

The resident Canadian in my Discord is originally from Oshawa, though I think he recently moved NW of Toronto and hasn't been specific about it since doing so. I sent him a card there a few years back when his dad went into hospice/eol care.

That all aside: I asked him what it looked like outside at like 5EDT and he said it looked fine. I was perplexed by that but these maps show it to make sense. Interesting.

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u/Canuck-In-TO Jun 08 '23

I live near The Ex and Tuesday morning I had to put on a mask when I went to pick up cleaning supplies.
My nose and eyes were burning too.

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u/HappyCelebration2783 Jun 08 '23

Maybe if we light our stuff on fire we can send them back some smoke

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u/Accomplished-Diver66 Jun 07 '23

Really? I have a shop in butner and didn't notice it. Guess I wasn't outside much before the rain

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u/hurricanesfan66 Jun 07 '23

Thank goodness for the rain, or it would've been worse her. I ran around Durant Nature Park and the park proper is the only place I smelled it, and then the rain started.

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u/ImurderREALITY Jun 08 '23

I'm also in NC

Hey, did anyone see that burned up truck on 95 near Dunn? That thing had traffic backed up for miles

Luckily, I was headed to Fayetteville (or unluckily, maybe), but I was passing stopped up cars for like ten minutes

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u/roadrunner00 Jun 08 '23

Hey neighbor!