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Allergic to Forest Fires
Jun. 13th, 2013 10:30 amI know that hundreds of homes burning down is no laughing matter. However, the main way in which I have been impacted by this season's wildfires (boy and to think I can remember when wildfires were not an every year occurrence and they almost never came this early) the the provocation of my tetchy nasal passages. I woke up yesterday with what seemed like my usual early spring reaction to the arrival of vegetable sexual emissions in the air. I took my usual pseudoephedrine (mmmm, mild stimulants) followed up by a nice 24-hour antihistamine a bit later with tea. It made me feel likely weird and off, but better than having a head so stuffed with snot that I stopped thinking of anything at all except trying to kill everyone with phlegm based superpowers. Die normal people for being so headache free!
With the wind out of the south the Black Forest Fire in Colorado gives a wonderful orange tinge to the air in Denver and at times makes it so hazy that I feel like I am back in the 1980s. Back then Denver had air pollution that was regularly worse than that of LA for people who do not know due to the way the basin Denver sits in traps everything we emit into the air. Also, yesterday, the smoke was strong enough that I could smell it like the odor of campground even inside air-conditioned buildings and I sneezed every few minutes. Today it merely gives the impression that the world may end sometime next month rather than in the coming week and makes the weather seem hotter than it actually is with its late afternoon colors near midday. It does not in any way hold a candle to the year that the wind came strongly out of the south during the state's largest wildfire and buildings across the street disappeared into the gray-orange murk with bits of ash raining down.
So, important point. If the apocalypse involves burning stuff I should have medicine so I will not die of my lungs seizing up before getting actually roasted or speared by some sort of otherworldly denizen.
With the wind out of the south the Black Forest Fire in Colorado gives a wonderful orange tinge to the air in Denver and at times makes it so hazy that I feel like I am back in the 1980s. Back then Denver had air pollution that was regularly worse than that of LA for people who do not know due to the way the basin Denver sits in traps everything we emit into the air. Also, yesterday, the smoke was strong enough that I could smell it like the odor of campground even inside air-conditioned buildings and I sneezed every few minutes. Today it merely gives the impression that the world may end sometime next month rather than in the coming week and makes the weather seem hotter than it actually is with its late afternoon colors near midday. It does not in any way hold a candle to the year that the wind came strongly out of the south during the state's largest wildfire and buildings across the street disappeared into the gray-orange murk with bits of ash raining down.
So, important point. If the apocalypse involves burning stuff I should have medicine so I will not die of my lungs seizing up before getting actually roasted or speared by some sort of otherworldly denizen.