At 3:25 in the afternoon here in lovely uptown Phoenix, it is SO SMOGGY out there that the sunLIGHT shining (or attempting to shine) in through the front windows is ORANGE.
No kidding. I’ve seem some dim days here, but this one takes the sunny cake.
It’s very much like a smoggy day in (un)lovely Long Beach, California. Wunderground tells us it’s 106 out there, with air quality at “moderate.”
LOL! If this is “moderate,” you surely don’t wanna see “gawdawful”! 😀
Y’know, this is why my parents moved here from Long Beach. The smog there kept getting worse and worse. When they learned about Sun City, then a suburb of Phoenix, they thought they’d found Heaven.
And by comparison, it was — at the time. There was hardly ever a smoggy day, and even then, the haze was light and the stink undistinguished.
Today’s haze hereabouts, we’re told, is from the wildfires in California. Truth to tell, though, it’s probably from fires on the outskirts of Maricopa County: one about 5 miles north has taken out some 300 acres (so far). And fires in nearby southern California are supposedly visible from space.
Welp, I need to try to figure out how to get into my bank account online. The credit union declines to let me have access.
Boyoboy, am I tired of all these fine modern conveniences….