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Nothing quite drives home the horrors of climate change like forest fires and wildfire smoke. We living on the West Coast have had a couple more years to experience the nightmare that the Midwest and East Coast are experiencing for the second time in 3 years.
I’ll never forget 2017 when the wildfire smoke descended on my city in Oregon for days at a time. We couldn’t go outside and the skies had a frightening, apocalyptic red to them. Clean air, which we all took for granted, was suddenly taken away from us. Ash started raining down on my city and I wrote “HELP” on the top of our car.
Ash rains down in Portland on our cars in 2017.
Then it happened again in Oregon in 2018. More smoke in the late summer, more checking air quality sites to see when we could go outside. We all bought air purifiers to keep our air breathable indoors.
