Scary stuff

[melchar]

Just talked with my mom. She's been suffering for the past 2 weeks [awful all-body rash, aches] - and the latest doctor she saw gave her a new slew of drugs [that have helped] - AND the speculation that some of her problems have been caused by the hideous air quality.

Or more to the point, that the fires are burning cr@p-tons of poison oak and poison ivy which is going into the air that folks are breathing in - and getting sick thereby. Considering that the smoke is worse here, that's something more to worry about.

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[kaichi-satake.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That's the kind of reaction I was getting to the heavy cigarette (or whatever it was) smoke that hung around here for a while. Just being in the air and contacting the skin can cause the rashes, apparently. I hope she's feeling better--and the air is cleaner--soon.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

There were over 1400 fires burning here [in California] 2 weeks ago. Some were pretty small. But that's down to about 450 right now [according to the news] - but 2 of them are enormous - burning mid-state near the coast - in Big Sur and outside of Santa Barbara. Those 2 are making southern CA's air bad [where my mom is].

There's an awful lot also burning north of Sacramento - collectively called the 'lightning basin' fires because most of them were caused by a dry lightning storm 2 weeks ago.

What the entire state really needs is rain and cooler temperatures. A good soaking. But what we have instead is a drought and hot weather. [those poor firefighters!]