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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Canada suffer from Quebec’s wildfires

From Maryland to the Canadian capital, a mammoth-size cloud of smoke spewed by Quebec’s wildfires has forced children to stay indoors, grounded flights in New York City and left millions of residents at risk of breathing unhealthy air.

More than 75 million people in the eastern US are under air quality alerts Wednesday due to the smoke, which made iconic skylines disappear behind wafting orange fumes.

The heaviest smoke Wednesday is expected to hit the Northeast through the mid-Atlantic and down to the Carolinas. Smoke conditions in those regions could last through at least Thursday.



Major metro areas in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have air quality indexes (AQIs) above 150 – which is considered “unhealthy,” according to the government website.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philadelphia-is-under-a-code-red-alert-as-millions-from-the-east-coast-to-canada-suffer-unhealthy-air-from-quebec-s-wildfires/ar-AA1ceZWm

[FuzzyRabbit]

1. Air quality forced postponment of WNBA game in NY.

Via WNBA email: The WNBA game between the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty originally scheduled for tonight has been postponed due to the air quality issues impacting the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the greater New York area following the wildfires in Canada. The city has been placed under an Air Quality Health Advisory until Thursday morning.

[roamer65]

2. We don't need to worry about "God's judgment in the Book of Revelation" or any shit like that.

We doing well enough at delivering an apocalypse or Armageddon all by OURSELVES.

The Book of Revelation is simply an allegory of what humans will do to bring about their own demise.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[Deminpenn]

4. 1948 Donora, PA temperature inversion smog

It killed 20 people and sickened roughly 1/3rd of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog