As they say “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” and well I am really missing the clean air I am usually blessed with here in British Columbia Canada. This year’s wildfires are particularly bad dramatically effecting our air quality, looking at the weather report all it says is haze with a chance of light rain.
B.C. declares state of emergency as nearly 560 wildfires burn across province
Browsing the official weather site there is now a state of emergency on Vancouver Island where I live. Many countries are pitching in sending supplies and workers to help fight the ongoing torment of fires. We have set records for total amount of fires on the island(33) and also number of fires started in a single day(27) luckily very few have been human related. It seems people are learning but Mother Nature has decided to toss a little karma at us for previous years by throwing a lightning storm at the island during our drought. All of this extends across the entire province with the worst year in 60 years, officials wonder if it will beat the worst year on record in terms of land burnt.
It is absolutely miserable outside, haven’t seen the sky in days. Never before have I seen this much smoke to the point I can stare directly at the sun without sunglasses. Everything seems to have a odd orange hue and even though the smoke is blocking out the sun we are still experiencing a heat wave.
My dog isn’t interested in going outside or doing anything, I can only imagine his eyes and lungs burn just like mine. Never mind that super sniffer of his the smoke must mess with his ability to enjoy sniffing and scent tracking thus we have a super lazy dog!
So back inside we go to hide from the smoke, it’s times like these I am glad to have purchased an AC unit for our place. I couldn’t imagine not being able to get away from the heat and smoke without flooding my house with a haze, it would be super unpleasant!
